Holy Week: The Week that Changed EverythingHoly Week is the most sacred period in the Christian calendar — the final seven days of Jesus' earthly life, death, and the silence before His resurrection. It is not merely a sequence of events, but a profound journey through the full depth of human and divine experience.
Palm Sunday - March 29th at 10am - opens with triumph — Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey, greeted by crowds waving palms and crying "Hosanna!" Yet the irony is piercing: they celebrated a king who came not to conquer Rome, but to conquer death itself.
Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday) - April 2nd at 7pm - is the night of breathtaking tenderness. Jesus kneels and washes His disciples' feet — God stooping to serve. Then comes the Last Supper, the institution of the Eucharist, and His agonized prayer in Gethsemane: "Not my will, but Yours."
Good Friday - April 3rd at 7pm - is the center of everything — the crucifixion. Christians believe this was not a tragedy that became meaningful, but a sacrifice that was always the meaning. Darkness at noon. The curtain of the Temple torn in two. "It is finished."
Holy Saturday - April 4th at 6pm - is sacred emptiness — the disciples shattered, hope seemingly buried, God apparently silent. This is the day that mirrors every human experience of loss and waiting.
Easter Sunday - April 5th at 10am - explodes through it all — the resurrection, the empty tomb, the world permanently altered.
Holy Week matters because it holds everything: love and betrayal, suffering and surrender, death and the refusal of death to be the final word.