Christianity is an historical religion. Most religions are not and the fact that it is historical doesn't make it necessarily better than other faiths. What it does mean is that the basis of it is in very real and recorable history and very real people who gave their lives testifying that what they had witnessed was true? Does this mean we are required to believe in it? No. Does this even mean that there is only one truth all of these people testified to, only one way of seeing it? Not at all. One only has to see that in the various tellings and the various forms of belief, heretical, orthodox and unorthodox that have come from it. What it does mean is that all who live in Christianity are engaged no only in our personal believes, but in grappling with the tradition of these very first witnesses.
In the Passiontide we do not pretend we are back in the last week of Jesus's life, or spectators at his cross. This is the last week of his life, and by the mystery of this witness, everything we are going in our common life is the journey to Jerusalem. But the mystery of this wintess we are not only spectators but becoming Christs.
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