This past Sunday I entered into Holy Week in a whole new way.
I'm part of a liturgical dance/movement choir at the church I attend in town. The church marked both Palm and Passion Sunday in worship. The first half of the service focused on Palm Sunday, complete with parade and processional with palms. The second half of the service, beginning with the second scripture reading and sermon, focused on Passion Sunday.
The scripture reading of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane was interpreted through dance - Jesus and the three disciples moving to the Taize chant "Stay with Me." The group had been working on the piece for a couple of weeks during short practices on Sunday afternoons. But the text didn't stay there. I've lived with the text running through my mind, my heart, and my body for two and a half weeks now. And Sunday when we were able to offer the dance in worship, I entered into Holy Week feeling the weight of desertion and shouldering a cross (literally - I danced the part of Jesus).
It's an experience I won't soon forget.
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Way cool. It is wonderful when an experience like that helps put you into a diffeernt place spiritually, emotionally, etc.
Liturgical movement has doen that for me, mission work, preachign, and reading/ acting out a text.
Gives a whole new perspective.
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