New Philly News April | May 2018
4440 Country Club Road|Winston Salem www.newphilly.org|336.765.2331 Connect with us: In person, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Holy Week is one of the most important weeks of the year. Beginning with Palm Sunday and leading up to Easter, those seven days tell the story of the passion of our Lord and Savior. The week allows us to experience Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem; his confrontations with the Pharisees; his teaching the crowds; his Last Supper with his disciples; his prayer and resolve in the garden; his arrest, trial, and crucifixion; his suffering and death on the cross. Holy Week is holy. It is meant to be a time that is “set apart” for reflection and contemplation on the last week of our Savior’s earthly life and the events of his passion. The Moravian church has always placed an emphasis on the importance of this week. Dating back to the days of Count Zinzendorf, the Readings for Holy Week provide us with the the complete scriptural account of Jesus’ last week. It is important to participate in the Holy Week reading services, to set apart time each evening to come to church and reflect upon what our Savior said and did that led him to the cross and grave, that caused him to suffer and die, for us and for our salvation. Holy Week this year begins on Palm Sunday, March 25. During our morning worship we will
celebrate the coming of our Lord and Savior by singing Hosanna, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord! Our Holy Week journey will continue as we have reading services each evening, Monday through Friday, beginning at 7 p.m.. We will celebrate Holy Communion on Maundy Thursday and a Tenebrae Service on Good Friday. Please make the effort to set this week, every day of this week, apart from your typical routines and activities so that you may come to worship and experience holy week. Make it your goal and commitment to journey with Jesus every step of the way. Lord, I’ll praise thee now and ever, who for me was crucified; for thy agony, dear Savior, for thy wounds and pierced side, for thy love, so tried, unending, for thy death, all deaths transcending. For thy death and love divine, Lord, I’ll be forever thine.