The church is about to enter into its most solemn week and then it’s most celebrative season. It will begin with Palm Sunday as Christians around the world will gather outside their churches for the blessing of the palms and a remembrance of the day when Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem to shouts of “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” We then enter our churches to hear how quickly the shift is made from a celebrative welcome to the arrest, denial, beating, trial and execution of Jesus. This is certainly one of the quickest and most devastating shifts in mood that ever occurs, as we are reminded of how easy it is to move from proclaiming our love for Jesus to a denial of Jesus. We will then leave the relative safety of our churches and re-enter the world to live through each of the days of what we know to be “Holy Week.”