Tag: holy week

Here is a list of the variety of services happening this Holy Week. This list is only a sample. If you don’t see your church and would like to have it added, please send your service times to Cassy Benefield at [email protected]. 

This year Christians are contemplating Jesus’ disruptive death in a Holy Week like few others, except perhaps the first. Surrounded by so much death we can barely leave our homes, there will be no egg hunts allowed, no Easter speeches from children claiming their own words of liberation, no “Hallelujah” choruses, except maybe a recording online.

Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will be holding two retreats for Holy Week titled, "To Die with Him is to Live with Him," led by Rev. Gregory Cleveland of the Archdiocese of Denver.

The first of the three sacred days of the Triduum, leading up to the Feast of Resurrection, is called Maundy Thursday. As a child I always wondered why we were calling it Monday Thursday.

The Cathedral of St John the Evangelist has organized a week filled with music for Holy Week. According to a press release, "The music that spans...

Holy Week and Pascha will be celebrated April 24 - May 1 by Orthodox Christians throughout the world.

May this Holy Week be an invitation to you and to me to go towards the pain.