For those of you new to Christianity or never really learned, this week is Holy Week. It is a big deal. Easter Sunday is the biggest and most important holiday (literally from "Holy Day".)
* Palm Sunday was last Sunday. This is when Jesus entered Jerusalem as a king.
* Thursday is the Last Supper. Thursday evening Jesus went into the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. Thursday night he was arrested and put on trial.
* Friday is Good Friday. This is the day that Jesus was nailed to the cross. He died around 3 PM.
* Easter Sunday morning he rose from the dead.
If you want to read about these events, you can read about them in the Bible in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Matthew, Mark and Luke are pretty similar and are called the Synoptic Gospels because they are similar. John is pretty different.
I encourage you to read the gospels and share them with your friends and family. Please spend this week with elevated thoughts dwelling on Jesus and his last few days on this earth.
Please make a special effort to attend any church you can on Easter Sunday with your family. If you don't know where to go or have any preference, I would encourage any decent Catholic Church. (I am not a Catholic.) If you don't go to a church, then please observe Easter morning with hymns and readings from the gospels and prayer.
Handel's Messiah was originally written for Easter celebration. I also encourage you to listen to the whole thing from beginning to end, in one sitting if you can.
I don't remember the location in Portland OR except that it was a garden built into a cliffside. It was probably named after Mary so it had a completely generic Catholic name for such places.