Holy Week began with a moving service at Mt Tabor Lutheran Church celebrating both Palm Sunday, with waving palms, shouts of Hosanna, and a parade into the sanctuary, and Passion Sunday with a very moving reading of the Passion according to St Matthew. The readers were all adults with the exception of Jesus who was acted by a HS student, a last minute substitute. "Jesus" stood at the alter while the other readers were at the lectern and pulpit. It is gut-wrenching to watch the mood of the crowd change from excitement and shouts of Hosanna to shouts of Crucify Him. I, along with the rest of the congregation read the part of the crowd. The young man playing Jesus read well, and we were left with a feeling of what did we do?Monday night we attended the performance by Garrison Keillor and were told the stories of what was happening in Lake Wobegone MN during Holy Week. It made us laugh and feel a little homesick.
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