Holy Week starts this Sunday with the celebration of Palm Sunday (11am) and continues with Maundy Thursday (7pm), Good Friday (7pm), and finally with the celebration of Easter Sunday (11am). 
The theme of our Holy Week this year is “the Heart”. This whole year we are talking about the reality that “We are the Body,” of Christ. If we are the Body, then the heart of our shared embodiment is what Holy Week points us to – the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is what makes us alive, it is what pumps energy and nutrients to us.
When you look up the word “heart” in Scripture, you find one consistent theme – the bad hearts are the ones that are hard, inflexible, and stone-like. Pharaoh’s heart is hardened against Moses, God promises a heart of flesh to the people who have hearts of stone in Ezekiel. That is perhaps something to consider this holy week, a question that you can bring to this important time of spiritual reflection and experience: “where is my heart hard?” Where is your heart ossified and inaccessible to God? Where does your heart need to be softened and opened to the Gospel? If you aren’t taking part in Holy Week individually or corporately, is it because of a hardness that needs to be made pliable again?
God promises us a new heart – a heart that will beat long after ours has stopped. That heart is the heart of Christ who is the very center of our being the Church. This heart beats even out of death – which is good news for our hearts that are dead because of our sins. He promises us that we will have life once more – a life with His beating heart.