Easter Holy Week Challenge

[Calm]

It’s a day late in starting due to my not reading emails every day (the RS President sent this yesterday), but I thought some here might be interested….it is just a message with a short video each day, not much time needed, but a good reminder for preparing to celebrate Easter.

https://pacific.churchofjesuschrist.org/easter-holy-week

Join us on a daily journey through Holy Week—eight days of devotion, reflection, and inspiration. Each day features a short video, sharing a powerful moment from Christ’s final week with a modern-day application. We invite you to join with us in experiencing, sharing, and celebrating His love.

Day 1 | Palm Sunday | 13 April
Day 2 | Monday | 14 April
Day 3 | Tuesday | 15 April 2025
Day 4 | Wednesday | 16 April
Day 5 | Thursday | 17 April
Day 6 | Good Friday | 18 April
Day 7 | Holy Saturday | 19 April
Day 8 | Easter Sunday | 20 April

Edited April 14 by Calm

[Calm]

Feel free to add any ideas you use or want to use to bring the Spirit this week.   

[bluebell]

I like to read the last week of Christ's life in the Jesus the Christ book by Talmage for Holy Week.  Not sure I'm going to get to it this year, but it's not a horrible amount of pages.

[CV75]

I thought this was very nice and worthwhile : https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2025/04/digital-only/20-inspired-quotes-to-celebrate-jesus-christ-this-easter?lang=eng

[JVW]

I'm considering having a passover meal as dinner on Easter sunday. idk when passover actually is and I didn't start considering it until after the week before it started so I'm not going to get rid of yeast in my house this year.

[bluebell]

5 minutes ago, JVW said:

I'm considering having a passover meal as dinner on Easter sunday. idk when passover actually is and I didn't start considering it until after the week before it started so I'm not going to get rid of yeast in my house this year.

According to my calendar it was a few days ago.  I still think that's an awesome idea though.

[Nofear]

An aside from the point of the thread, but I liked that the videos were all using individuals from the Pacific area of the Church (at least what I can guess based on their accents).

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/easter-holy-week isn't found. Just the https://pacific.churchofjesuschrist.org/easter-holy-week. There is a draft version of it too apparently (https://pacific.churchofjesuschrist.org/easter-holy-week-draft).

There is another version on the Church's main site https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/easter/easter-week which I think is from a previous year.

But, now there's a whole rabbit hole one can go down (gee, thanks Calm).
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/countries?lang=eng

[Raingirl]

1 hour ago, JVW said:

I'm considering having a passover meal as dinner on Easter sunday. idk when passover actually is and I didn't start considering it until after the week before it started so I'm not going to get rid of yeast in my house this year.

It began at sundown on the 12th, and ends at sundown on the 20th. 

[Calm]

 

Edited April 16 by Calm

[Calm]

 

[Calm]

Life of Christ videos

[halconero]

On 4/15/2025 at 9:31 AM, JVW said:

I'm considering having a passover meal as dinner on Easter sunday. idk when passover actually is and I didn't start considering it until after the week before it started so I'm not going to get rid of yeast in my house this year.

FWIW, one way of understanding Easter is as the Christian Passover.

In fact, that's its name in the Celtic, Nordic, and Romance languages, along with Albanian, Greek, Russian, and Turkish. Other names for the day include "Resurrection" (Serb-Croatian), "Great Day/Night" (other non-Russian Slavic countries), "Sacrifice" (Georgia, if I remember correctly), and variations on a phrase indicating the end of Lent.

[InCognitus]

I go for an hour long walk every day, and in the last ten days or so I've been listening to the chapters of Matthew 26-28, Mark 14-16, Luke 22-24, and John 17-21, over and over again during my walk.  Hearing those chapters over and over again and in comparison to each of the other gospels has been very enlightening.

Let me just say that John 17 (which is Jesus offering the intercessory prayer) is probably one of the most beautiful chapters in all of scripture. 

And I really hope that in the hereafter (or sooner?) we can get a lesson manual or a recounting of everything Jesus taught to the two men on the road to Emmaus: "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself." (Luke 24:27)  I would love to have been there with them at that moment.