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A Blessed Holy Week
As we journey out of Lent and into Holy Week we will hear again the Gospel message about the Passion of Jesus. And for so many of us, we will already be raw from first hand experience of the grief that comes with death. In the next two weeks we have an opportunity to reach an even greater understanding of that part of life which we cannot escape, death. We also have the opportunity to learn more about how we can come out on the other side of that kind of suffering in life toward the experience of new life and hope with God, our church community, family and friends.
Holy Week is about the last week of Jesus’ life within the framework of his entire life and passion for the realization and living into the kingdom of God; an understanding that God is the ultimate power and authority in the world and desires the transformed world of peace on earth and good will toward all people.
Holy Week Services remember when:
- Jesus and his disciples share the Last Supper with the Words of Institution;
- Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane while his disciples are unable to stay awake;
- Jesus is arrested, tried, crucified, dies and is buried;
- Finally, we celebrate the Risen Christ with Easter Sunday.
During Holy Week at St. Peter’s we will offer the following services:
- Wed. April 8th at 7 pm: Tenebrae (a form of monastic daily office as a service of “an extended mediation upon, and prelude to, the events of our Lord’s life between the Last Supper and the Resurrection”, BCP.
- Thurs. April 9th at 5:30 pm pot luck supper followed by the 7 pm Service of Maundy Thursday
- Fri. April 10th at 7 pm: Good Friday
- Easter Sunday Service on April 12th at 10 am.
I invite you to walk with our community of St. Peter’s and the wider community through this Holy Week and that this journey will help you live into the kingdom of God with a closer connection to the Risen Christ in your own life and in the world.
Pastor Sandra 