We all know that Lent and Holy Week, along with Advent and Christmas, are some of the most challenging weeks of the Christian year. During Lent, pastors typically have at least one more service or program each week and often spend extra time visiting shut-ins and serving home communions. Holy Week brings at least two, and as many as six or more, extra services to be planned and led. Pastors hardly have time to catch their breath, must less live in the spirit of Lent and Holy Week. Recently, I met with a group of pastors who lamented that while they counseled their congregants to spend extra time in prayer, their own prayer lives deteriorated during these seasons of penitence and retreat.
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