Palm Sunday begins a very different Holy Week this year. In our sixth meditation for Lent, our writer draws lessons from two Christians who lived through irregular Holy Weeks

The 75th anniversary of the execution of the Lutheran pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Flossenbürg concentration camp on 9 April falls on Maundy Thursday, but in 1945 that date was Low Monday. So Bonhoeffer had lived through his last Holy Week and Easter Week as preparation for a death which, according to the army medical officer who witnessed it, was serene and full of faith. Of course, it had not been a “normal” Holy Week or Easter Week for anyone in the chaotic final months of the Second World War.