Holy Week

Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday are the Church's busiest days of the year.
Marking the end of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week, Palm Sunday, a "Sunday of the highest rank," led to a full house.

I've been going to church services on a regular basis since I came to MU. Each Sunday at 8:50 p.m. a group of friends and I make our way from our sorority house to Newman, making it there just in time to grab a seat in the back row - not wanting to wind our way through the other pews where single seats remain. While there is a good turn-out for the 9 p.m. service, the six or seven of us don't usually have any difficulty finding seats.

This always changes on religious holidays.

On Ash Wednesday, we arrived ten minutes early, anticipating a crowd. Unlike the approximately 50 or 60 students that hadn't thought ahead, we sat on the stage at the back of the church while others lined the walls and crowded in the Church's entryway.

On Palm Sunday, the church was equally packed.

If you're not going to Church on a regular basis, does going on a religious holiday make up for it?

People from all different denominations and religions are drawn to churches on religious holidays. Easter, Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday - hundreds of people reserve their religious involvement to these select days.

Is going on certain days better than not going at all?
No matter what the religion, only attending on certain days is not encouraged, but it seems like they would rather have packed houses on religious holidays than not.