Liturgical church is comfortable to me. It always has been. Not all of us were raised with liturgical church and are less than enthusiastic about it; because we tend to be most comfortable, it seems, with what we were raised with in church.
The liturgical calendar keeps us focused. It is itself a Christian Education tool. It unfolds the story for us from the beginning of the creation as we know it, to the resurrection and beyond. The liturgical calendar helps us to remember and it helps us to move toward the future. The liturgical calendar tells the whole of our heritage in 3 years, then, for good measure, it repeats it again, and again.
Holy Week is such a focused period of time. Within one week we move from the triumphal entry into Jerusalem to the resurrection and the empty tomb. It is high drama. You may think it not right to refer to the story that way, but, human life is filled with drama, and the human life of Jesus was no exception. The story we tell is dramatic and it is inspiring.
Today I spent an hour in the sanctuary being quiet and still. It opened up the pores of my spirit to the fresh breath of God's spirit. At the noon prayer service we prayed with power today. We all felt it. It was palpable. Holy Week reminds us just how close God is.
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