Lent, Holy Week, and Easter

Lent

  • Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, February 13 7pm

    Join us from 6-7pm on Tuesday, February 13th for a Pancake Supper to mark the last festivity before Lent. At 7pm, Rev’d Jeanne will lead us outside to burn last year’s palms to make ashes for the Ash Wednesday services.

  • Ash Wednesday, February 14 7pm

    We observe the first day of Lent with a Eucharist service that includes the Litany of Penitence and the Imposition of Ashes. We will hold two services: noon and 7pm.

  • Lenten Study on Thursday Nights 6:30-7:30pm

    Join our Deacon, Greg, as he leads this Thursday night study group that examines the different themes of the Baptismal Covenant. This group will reference the book, Will You? that is available for purchase in the office.

  • Labyrinth Walk and Taize service, March 3 4pm/5pm

    Our monthly Labyrinth walk and Taize service takes on a particularly poignant note during Lent. Join us at 4pm to walk the labyrinth and stay for the service at 5pm.

Holy Week

  • Palm Sunday, March 24 8am and 10am

    Join the congregation as we process around the block with palms and singing at the start of the 10am service. This is a fun service for children and families.

  • Maundy Thursday, March 28 6pm

    We gather in community on this night as Jesus did with the disciples at the Last Supper. We will share a simple meal together at 6pm, followed at 7pm by a Rite II Eucharist service that includes the washing of feet.

  • Good Friday, March 29 7pm

    This service commemorates Christ’s death on the cross. In the place of the Eucharist, we pray together the ancient Solemn Collects for the whole of creation. We enter and leave in silence ad you are invited to spend some time in silent prayer at the end of the service.

  • Holy Saturday Service of Scripture and Prayer, March 30 10am

    This is the space between the death and the resurrection. We mourn. We wait. We hope. Holy Saturday is a simple and spare service of scripture and prayer will be followed by a time available to pray with the Rector and the Deacon.

Easter

  • The Great Vigil of Easter, March 30 8pm

    The first service of Easter Day, the Great Vigil of Easter begins in the darkness after nightfall on Saturday. We gather on the front steps to kindle the New Fire to light the Paschal Candle, listen to our deacon chant the Exsultet to proclaim the reconciliation of heaven and earth, and renew our Baptismal Vows.

  • Easter Sunday Rite II Eucharist Service, March 31 10am

    Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! This joyful Rite II Eucharist service will feature the Flowering of the Cross by the children of the parish, exuberant music with guest musicians, and a celebration of the Resurrection.

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry writes about Ash Wednesday in the following “God Loves Us Even in Our Dustiness” published in Episcopal Relief and Development. www.episcopalrelief.org

Lent has two quite remarkable bookends. Today, on Ash Wednesday we are reminded that we are dust and that God loves us even in our dustiness. At the end of this season, we will celebrate the power that God’s love has to transform this world.

Easter reminds us that not even death can keep us from God’s unconditional love. As we follow in the footsteps of Jesus this Lent, we know that living out God’s love for the world is our ultimate goal.

We also know that this walk with Jesus won’t be easy. Following Jesus takes us through Good Friday and the cross. There will be struggles; there will be times when we stumble, but we are not alone. We are bound to one another as children of God. We share with Jesus in God’s beloved family.

God came among us in the person of Jesus to show us how to be more than simply the human race. He came to show us how to realize God’s dream, God’s purpose, God’s plan for us and for all creation.

Whatever devotion you practice this season of Lent, either giving up something that ties you to this world or taking on a spiritual task or discipline, let it be something that helps you participate in the movement of God’s love in this world, following in the footsteps of Jesus and loving one another. #WayofLove