Passion Monday

QUESTION: Is there a difference between the usage of Holy Monday and Passion Monday?

ANSWER:

The term “passion” is used only once in the Scriptures (Acts 1:3, KJV), whereas “holy” (in direct reference to Holy Spirit) is mentioned over 150 times. Passion [Greek 3958] denotes “to experience a sensation or impression, feel, suffer, vex.”

Holy [Greek 40] infers something “sacred, pure, blameless, consecrated.” The usage of both Holy Monday and Passion Monday serve to depict the focus of reverence, while both giving honor to Jesus, who “suffered many things, and [was] rejected,” yet He was “one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, [and] exalted above the heavens” (Mark 8:31; Hebrews 7:26).