Holy Week

I have just had the most curious discussion with a friend.

She is not Christian but seeks a spiritual life attached to no particular religion or faith. I find talking to her often refreshing and exciting - she opens my mind to other perspectives that I might not have seen otherwise. But for all that I haven't realised before that she has no sense of the discipline and protection to be had within a religious faith or that she has real difficulty in seeing religious faith as spiritual. Hers is a very lonely belief, I think and not one I would chose.

She asked what Holy Week was all about and why I would celebrate it year after year. Didn't I get bored?

I did my best, but after a bit it became clear that never having been part of corporate worship she could not comprehend the nature of the Liturgy and how it is important. And I didn't have the words or concepts to explain, only a deeply felt experience.

Perhaps you could tell me how the Liturgy of Holy Week helps you?