What's So Holy About Holy Week?
And why do we bow our heads to commemorate the most gruesome of deaths visited upon history's only genuinely innocent human?
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The Most Important Week of the Liturgical Year
This week is Holy Week for many Christians worldwide—namely Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Episcopalians—a season of devotion when the Church commemorates the Passion of Jesus Christ.1 I used to wonder …
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