Every Friday is Good Friday

The seven day week as a microcosm of the Church Calendar.

The Church Calendar, beginning with the first Sunday of Advent and concluding with the Feast of Christ the King, is an intentional re-living of the life of Christ year after year.

In Advent we anticipate his Incarnation that we celebrate throughout Christmas. In Epiphany we recognize the many ways he revealed his true nature throughout the Gospels. In Lent we enter with him into the period of fasting in the wilderness. Holy Week is a slow, purposeful walk through the final week of his life. Easter—the longest of the Holy Seasons!—is a feast celebrating the resurrection of our Lord.

To follow the Church Calendar is to re-live the life of Jesus every year of your life.

But there are some things worth doing not just every year, but every week.

For as long as the Church has been the Church, Christians have used the natural rhythm of the seven day week to be formed—week after week—increasingly into the image of Jesus.

The seven day week serves as a microcosm of the Church Year.

So what is the seven day rhythm of the Christian week?