When you think about it, it’s strange to call one week of the year “Holy” as if there were something different about this particular set of days. The sun rising and setting in the sky is the same sun during Holy Week as it is during the rest of the year. The air we breathe during Holy Week is the same air. Plants, animals, and most people go about their business as usual. On the surface, nothing changes. And yet, we call this week “Holy” because what happens during this week changes everything. What happened two thousand years ago, when the living Christ rose from the grave, changed the fundamental meaning of the universe; it demonstrated that life is stronger than death. That event – the resurrection – reverberates into the present during this Holy Week through the rituals that we enact. These rituals serve to re-member Christ among us. We re-member Christ as we kneel in service to each other on Maundy Thursday and share his Supper. We re-member Christ as we gather in silence around the cross on Good Friday. And most importantly, we re-member Christ as we raise our voices on Easter, proclaiming the victory of Christ over the power of death. It’s impossible to overstate the transforming power of these three days: everything changes; life infuses the minutes and hours we gather to worship. After these three days are over, we still sin… we’re still limited human beings. But we carry in ourselves the knowledge – experienced first hand – that we are destined for more.