Hello and welcome to just a brief note from the scriptures for real.

I'm your host, Carrie Mealstein.

I'm Julianne Yelstein.

And we just wanted to give you a heads up that we are planning on doing a small

episode every day of the Holy Week starting with Palm Sunday. But we wanted to give you some,

I guess just warning now in case you wanted to prepare a little bit. So one of the things that we

wanted to point out, and we'll do this again on

that first one with Palm Sunday, but we just wanted to let you know about a resource that's

really valuable called Greater Love Hath no man. It's a new book that's just out. It's a Latter-day

St. Guide to Celebrating the Easter season by Eric Huntsman and Trevin G. Hatch. you'll find in there all sorts of handy things for helping you

as a family celebrate the Holy Week. I think you'll find it fantastic. But let's, Julian's just

going to talk a little bit about why we might even want to celebrate the Holy Week.

I think it's just really helpful to be able to do some things that set up your week ahead of Easter to be able to be more mindful and bring in a spiritual tone leading into Easter.

I didn't know that we've always thought this way.

It's kind of developed over time and we don't have we don't necessarily do the exact same thing each year. It kind of depends on our lives and, and, and the things that we're feeling at the time. But our kids and our kids. Yeah. And life. Um, but we've enjoyed a lot of different aspects and in different ways.

So when we've been in Jerusalem, we've taken part in a lot of the activities that were there for us.

The triumphal entry, a Palm Sunday walk that happens there in Jerusalem is a powerful experience where you're amongst thousands, would you say thousands of Christian pilgrims

who have come to celebrate and commemorate the whole week ahead of Easter, including Easter,

and it begins with this walk together where there's palm fronds waved, music is sung and played.

And it's a big parade.

But it's without a lot of the regular parade type elements and just includes...

It's a pilgrimage, really.

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