{"id":483,"date":"2020-04-05T19:52:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T19:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/?p=483"},"modified":"2020-04-05T19:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T19:52:30","slug":"statement-on-holy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2020\/04\/05\/statement-on-holy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on Holy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the beginning of religious observances throughout the month of April across all faiths &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.<\/strong>\u00a0As customary, faith leaders would host services in observance of\u00a0<strong>Palm Sunday, Passover, Good Friday<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Easter, and Ramadan.<\/strong>\u00a0Unfortunately, this year will be anything but usual as all public gatherings and religious services are banned in an effort to<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/doh\/downloads\/pdf\/imm\/stop-the-spread-poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">stop the spread<\/a>\u00a0of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p>In observance of\u00a0<strong>Holy Week<\/strong>, which begins today on\u00a0<strong>Palm Sunday<\/strong>, millions of Christians will commemorate the final moments of Jesus Christ on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>From a hero&#8217;s welcome on Palm Sunday to his crucifixion on Good Friday, Christ never lost sight of His divine purpose, which Christians hold close &#8211; sacrificing His life so that we would have eternal life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This exchange was an unparalleled gesture of unconditional love between God the Father, His son, and the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To Christians, Resurrection Sunday is a public declaration of victory over death as good will always prevail against evil.<\/p>\n<p>In the current state of our world, as we battle a pandemic, let us use this Palm Sunday as a time to reflect on lessons Jesus left behind facing tough times by preserving love, compassion, and resilience in our hearts while leading a life of faith and service to all mankind.<\/p>\n<p>I wish all who observe a blessed Holy Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the beginning of religious observances throughout the month of April across all faiths &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.<\/strong>\u00a0As customary, faith leaders would host services in observance of\u00a0<strong>Palm Sunday, Passover, Good Friday<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Easter, and Ramadan.<\/strong>\u00a0Unfortunately, this year will be anything but usual as all public gatherings and religious services are banned in an effort to<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/doh\/downloads\/pdf\/imm\/stop-the-spread-poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">stop the spread<\/a>\u00a0of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2020\/04\/05\/statement-on-holy-week\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}