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Holy Week, a sub-season of Lent, begins
on Palm Sunday (sixth Sunday in Lent) and embraces the last seven days
before Easter. The gospel story of Jesus' trial and sufferings, which
is usually read in churches on Palm Sunday, is called the Passion, according
to St. Matthew, St. Mark or St. Luke.
The Gospel Passion story includes, in one gospel or another,
- the agony in Gethsemane,
- the betrayal and the arrest,
- the hearings before the high Priest and Herod,
- the trial under Pontius Pilate,
- the scourging and mocking of Jesus by the soldiers,
- carrying the cross to Calvary; and
- the crucifixion and death of Jesus.
The cross is often used as a seasonal symbol for Lent and for Holy Week.
Holy Week symbolism naturally center on the Instruments of the Passion and
on the persons and things mentioned in the gospel accounts of the Crucifixion.
We celebrate these on Maunday Thursday (when Jesus was captured), Good Friday (when Jesus was crucified
and died on the cross), and Easter (when Jesus rose again from the dead) and again, at
Christmas-Epiphany, legend has added much which is not explicit in the Bible
accounts.
If you have questions about the ministries of the church,
please contact
Senior Pastor Fred Morgan at 512-258-9117 x 13.
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