Making the Events of Holy Week More Personal

Many Christians are so familiar with the events of Holy Week, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday,that we don’t think deeply about how it must have felt to live those events. Karen May wanted to make the events of Holy Week more personal so that people could experience the tragic events as a reality.

In the preface, she tells the story of Alice, a convert to Catholicism. Karen believed that Alice’s understanding of the mass was limited so, as her Confirmation sponsor, she set out to make the experience of Holy Week more meaningful. This is the genesis of much of the personal material in this book.

The book takes each event in Holy Week giving Bible readings, questions, and personal observations. I found the personal discussions particularly interesting. Early in the book, she gives a description of how a modern parallel might play out and how we would feel. It makes you think about the people in Jerusalem at the time of Christ’s crucifixion and how average people might have reacted to it.

Although this book is written around the Catholic mass, I think it’s appropriate for any Christian. It helps to make the story of the last days of Christ on earth come to life.

I received this book from PR by the Book for this review.