Good Friday: An Anglican Perspective
Good Friday stops everything. No flowers, no music, just a bare altar and silence. In this countercultural observance, the worst day in history is called “good”—the day divine love triumphed on the cross.
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Maundy Thursday: An Anglican Perspective
Maundy Thursday blends celebration and sorrow, drawing the faithful into the Upper Room where Jesus shared his Last Supper with his disciples and gave them a new commandment, to love as He loves.
Palm Sunday: An Anglican Perspective
On Palm Sunday, the Church greets the humble King with palms and praise, only to confront the cost of his kingship in the Passion Gospel. Drawing on Scripture and early Christian processions from Jerusalem, this day invites us to walk the way of the cross that leads to life.
The Annunciation: An Anglican Perspective
March 25 is the Feast of the Annunciation — nine months before Christmas. Today we celebrate the moment the eternal Word became flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary. An angel’s message. A young woman’s humble yes.
Passion Sunday: An Anglican Perspective
The Fifth Sunday in Lent. Passion Sunday. The collect does not ask for feelings appropriate to Holy Week. It asks that the heart would be fixed where true joys are to be found amid the swift and varied changes of this world. The cross is one week from Palm Sunday. Lent is sharpening.
Joseph, Husband of the Virgin Mary and Guardian of Jesus: An Anglican Perspective
March 19 is the feast of Joseph, Guardian of Jesus. He never speaks in any Gospel. His entire portrait is obedience: he named the child, fled to Egypt, returned, searched three days in Jerusalem. Upright and obedient — the collect asks us to imitate exactly that.