Everything is different about Holy Week this year, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little bitter about it.

What can I say? I’m going through the five stages of grief at this immense loss, the inability to pray Holy Week in church with all of my church family, my local Body of Christ.

Sometimes I’m sad and despairing, sometimes I’m accepting, and sometimes I’m fiercely bitter.

It was on my calendar two weeks ago to start reminding you to pick up a copy of the Holy Week Journal, but I couldn’t muster up any desire to talk about Holy Week when everything was so uncertain. I preferred to spend my time praying that COVID-19 would just go away.

It’s not going away, and we’re not having Holy Week services anything like usual in our church. Like many of you, I am heartbroken.

But I found my 2019 Holy Week Journal and realized that this was one thing that wouldn’t change.

In the building or outside of the building, I will spend Holy Week writing and speaking to God and listening and hearing from Him.

My favorite way to do that is through my Holy Week Journal. For many years, I have used the time of chanting psalms to write my prayers and meditations—since those college years when I couldn’t attend pascha services live and had to stream them.

I know that I will desperately need my Holy Week Journal this year because I have a LOT to say to God and I need to hear a LOT from Him. This year 2020 has been… I don’t yet have a nice way to describe it. But my God will redeem it, and I can’t wait to see how.

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144 pages. Very simple. Very straightforward.
Exactly what I need. The Psalm on one side,
lines on the other. From the first Pascha prayer
on Sunday to the burial psalm on Friday evening.
Maybe it's exactly what you need, too.