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Over the past few years, even before my faith transition, I loved other religions focus on Holy Week. I grew up in a predominantly Catholic area. The public school I attended always served fish on Friday, and we observed various holy days with early releases so that my class mates could prepare and attend the accompanying mass. My best friend was Catholic and we each attended the others things as friends. I wish Mormonism had a holy week plan, today I logged on ByCommonConsent – and two opportunities to participate in it are available. I am linking directly to the home page because the first part is the introduction of the poster and for those who are balancing orthrodox in their day, you can see the poster is right in the center of “safe” Mormon publishing. The Holy Week plans are in the next post below it. If you choose to follow it or the BCC lectionary Holy Week – check back in here, lets share our insights.
I grew up Catholic, although we were far from devout and rarely attended church. Holy Week never did much for me, in truth, but it is clearly important to many Christians. I actually miss Christmas Eve services more than anything but I have been known to attend services at other churches on Christmas Eve. I do find it odd that the church does so completely eschew these traditions of other Christian denominations. Given I teach Gospel Doctrine I’ve shuffled lessons around to teach “Life of Christ” today and the Atonement next Sunday. I’m going to be using lots of the church’s Bible videos
Nice Mackay – Can you please post your notes. I don’t have church for 3 more hours. I hope we may have something like that. I am not holding my breath. If anything like that happens I will return and report. 🙂 Will do. The “life of Christ” one was a bit of a cop-out. We watched 5-6 bible videos as I wanted to capture his life and help people think of his lessons and examples in living, not just in dying. mackay11 wrote:I wanted to capture his life and help people think of his lessons and examples in living, not just in dying.
In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. –John 1:4-5 (NIV)Quote:I wanted to capture his life and help people think of his lessons and examples in living, not just in dying.
Amen!!
I focused one of my Sunday School lessons about the Atonement last year on that exact topic – how we miss a major part of the Atonement when we ignore Jesus’ life in our discussions about it. The lesson summary is in my Sunday School lessons recap thread, but it is easier to find on my personal blog:
http://thingsofmysoul.blogspot.com/2013/03/posting-sunday-school-lessons-i-teach.html Thank you everyone. I watched the videos yesterday and read from Matthew during class time. Today I found this at and it made me smile. I thought you might like it. http://rationalfaiths.com/celebrating-palm-sunday-mormon-ward-reflection/ http://rationalfaiths.com/celebrating-holy-week-as-mormons/ Tonight I am watching Ben Hur. I love the movie a ton, I love the Christ depictions from birth, to water, to death in it.
Happy Holy Week and Passover.
mom3 wrote:Thank you everyone. I watched the videos yesterday and read from Matthew during class time. Today I found this at and it made me smile. I thought you might like it.
http://rationalfaiths.com/celebrating-palm-sunday-mormon-ward-reflection/ http://rationalfaiths.com/celebrating-holy-week-as-mormons/ I would do cartwheels if our ward/stake did anything like this. I’ve spent more than one Sunday in December singing hymns like “Let Us All Press On” instead of Christmas ones, but the short shrift we sometimes give Christmas doesn’t compare to the uneven treatment of Easter Sunday. I’ve been in Easter Sunday sacrament meetings where, except for the hymns, there was no mention of Easter. And sometimes we have actual programs – and everything in between the two extremes.
Growing up where I did, the traditional (mostly Catholic) church calendar was very appealing to me. I liked the personal preparation of Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday, but that’s just me.
I wish we’d move General Conference off of Easter Sunday when it falls there. Nothing is a bigger downer than watching a screen in your family room when we could stand with the rest of Christendom in our chapels and sing, “Christ the Lord is Risen Today.”
I am hoping for an Easter Sunday focused solely on the life, mission and resurrection of Christ.
Thanks for all the links, mom3. And Happy Easter, everyone.
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