Yeah, sure things are busy: extra services to plan, preparations to be made, people to visit.
Aside from the busyness, Holy Week has a kind of stillness about it, especially at the beginning of the week. Anticipation hangs in the air for the events of the coming days. Life and death, deepest sorrow and ultimate joy - we will experience all of these this week.
As I join with Christians all over the world to remember these events that took place long ago, I also remember significant Holy Weeks in my life. In India, Good Friday is the most observed day of the Christian year, bigger than Easter and Christmas. I remember the Easter I sang "A Toi la Gloire" in France and the Maundy Thursday stations of the cross at Nunraw Abbey in Scotland. In college I attended a Holy Week service at an Orthodox church in Chicago and in seminary preached at a Seven Last Words service in inner city Trenton.
This week has found me in many different places in my life, both geographical and spiritual. Where does Holy Week find you this year?