We in the Church say a lot of words during Holy Week. Two long Passion stories are read, one on Palm Sunday and the other on Good Friday. A dozen or so psalms are read during Tenebrae, in addition to readings and canticles. Sermons are preached, collects are prayed, hymns are sung, in addition to all of those non-verbal things that we do such as wash feet on Maundy Thursday, adore the Blessed Sacrament before the morning of Good Friday, and Venerate the Cross on Good Friday. Count the Great Vigil, and there is still more to the richness of language and action. What in all this spoke to you? And what was the Word that you heard, whether silently or out loud? And if you could pass on whatever that message was, how and what might that be?
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What speaks to me most in holy week are the tangible rituals and objects – the veneration of the cross, placing the host in the font, seeing the first candle lit at the Easter vigil. These make the Passion story real to me.