Heidi’s Blog

Today is glorious because we’ve seen the darkness of Good Friday. Today is glorious because it speaks of hope and new things. Today is glorious because our Lord has risen! There is a lot to be said about Easter, the day we commemorate Jesus rising from the dead....

There’s a lot to be uncomfortable about on Good Friday. We have become used to associating a cross with Jesus, but the reality of the cross in Judea two thousand years ago was quite different. The cross was a means of execution, but it was also a means of humiliation....

The word maundy appears to come from the Latin mandate, which means, “commandment.” After Jesus washed the feet of the disciples, he said to them, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will...

Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, the last Sunday of Lent. It’s the day we remember Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem on a donkey.  Jerusalem at this time was preparing for the Passover celebration, so it would have been teeming with both residents and pilgrims....