Hello and welcome to the Scriptures or Real Podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about

elements of the scriptures that have become real to us. And we have a special episode we'll

tell you about in just a moment it's a special series actually

i'm your host kerry milstein and i am thrilled to have my very very favorite co-host with me

which is my wife julian so hi julia hello everyone julian's been on the the podcast a number of times

so by now you should know her, I would guess.

She just barely got back from leading a tour in Israel and Egypt.

And we are doing a special series where we're going to do just a short episode each day,

maybe on occasion two, but probably just one, about the Holy Week, just to help us all celebrate the Holy Week.

So today is the beginning of the Holy Week.

Well, not actually when we're recording this, but when you're listening to this, I hope.

It's the beginning of the Holy Week, Palm Sunday, or the Triumphal Entry is what it's often called.

And we're really excited to talk about it.

But, but let's just talk in general about celebrating the Holy Week or Easter. It's not something that

as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we do very much, but I think we've been

doing it a little bit more recently. And I think it's fantastic. We have such a big lead-up to

Christmas, which is wonderful,

but honestly, Easter is even more important than Christmas. And we should be celebrating it

in as many ways as we can, both to strengthen our testimony, to praise God, to understand things

better, to appreciate it better, and for a thousand other ways and reasons,

it is good for our soul to celebrate the Holy Week.

Yeah, and in fact, I really like something that Neil A. Anderson said,

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