Holy Week prayer: walking with Jesus to the cross
Holy Week — Semana Santa — is the most sacred week in the Christian year. From Palm Sunday to Easter morning, we walk with Jesus through His final days. Prayer in this week opens the heart like no other time.
The significance of each day in Holy Week
Palm Sunday: the triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Holy Monday-Wednesday: teaching and confrontation. Maundy Thursday: the Last Supper and Gethsemane. Good Friday: the Crucifixion. Holy Saturday: the silence of the tomb. Easter Sunday: Resurrection.
Each day of Holy Week is a chapter in the greatest story ever told. Praying through each day is to let that story become your own.
Holy Week prayer practices
During Holy Week, believers around the world pray:
- Via Dolorosa prayers — meditating on each station of the cross
- Gethsemane prayer — staying awake with Jesus in the garden
- Good Friday intercession — praying for the lost for whom He died
- Easter vigil — watching and waiting through the night before the Resurrection
Holy Week in the Holy Land
Jerusalem lives Holy Week like no city on earth. The Via Dolorosa — the road Jesus walked to the cross — still runs through the Old City. The Garden of Gethsemane still stands on the Mount of Olives. Golgotha is still venerated at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Mirezo prays your Holy Week intentions at these sites during the most sacred week of the year. Your prayer walks the same streets Jesus walked.
Submit your Holy Week prayer
Don't observe Holy Week from a distance. Pray from the center. Submit your Semana Santa prayer to Jerusalem and walk with Jesus through the most important week in history.
The road to Easter begins in prayer. Walk it with us from the Holy Land.