A Special Holy Week Retreat

Over the last couple of weeks I have been working to expand the Garden Walk of Holy Week Retreat which I have in past years provided as an online retreat for Holy Week. In its expanded form it seemed that it would be more effective as a booklet that each person can go through at their own pace.

I am very excited about this retreat and the fresh perspectives it provides for Holy Week. I love to revisit these reflections every year as I increasingly embrace a more ecologically focused approach to the journey that Jesus took. Our journey with Jesus from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday is an inspiring revelation of who he is in relation to creation. When we disconnect his story from its ecological roots, we suffer a dislocation that cuts us adrift. It is time to restore the missing connections and I hope this retreat will help you do that.

Earth participates in each step of the Holy Week story. From the waving of palms, and Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem on a donkey, through the garden of Gethsemane to the crescendo of earthquakes and splitting tombs at the moment of Christ’s crucifixion and on to Easter Sunday when life overcomes death and Jesus is proclaimed as the gardener of the new creation we see a wonderful reversal of the story of creation and Fall to an exciting journey into God’s resurrection world.

There are eight reflections to this retreat - beginning on Palm Sunday and ending with Easter Sunday. I hope you will enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.