"We Who Are Many Are One: From the Lord's Table to Every Table"

The 4th Annual Logan Square Ecumenical Alliance Palm Sunday witness focuses on wage justice for fast food workers.

Next Sunday, March 29th, is Palm Sunday.  As we have done for many years, we’ll be starting worship 15 minutes early for an ecumenical blessing of the palms with our neighbors at Episcopal Church of the Advent.  This year we’ll also be joined by their sister parish, Nuestra Señora de las Americas (NSA). At the conclusion of the blessing of the palms, Church of the Advent will process down Francisco to their own sanctuary, waving their palms and singing “All Glory, Laud, and Honor” while NSA will enter our sanctuary with us, joining us for the remainder of our worship service.Midway through the worship service, after the offering has been collected, our combined congregation will process from the sanctuary carrying the gifts of bread and wine, palm branches and protest signs, and follow the cross to the Logan Square Monument where we will be joined by members of Humboldt Park United Methodist Chuch, Kimball Avenue Church, First Lutheran Church, and others for an ecumenical service of Holy Communion. Although this is the 4th year we have gathered at the monument on Palm Sunday for an ecumenical witness, it is the first year that we have shared Holy Communion with one another.We have chosen to share the Lord’s Supper together, in public, as a witness to the alternative values that govern the commonwealth of God, in which there is enough for everyone and all are welcome, where laborers are treated with dignity and equality regardless of when they arrived for work. We will be joined by representatives of ARISE Chicago, the interfaith labor organization we welcomed here at St. Luke’s earlier this month, and we will be blessing the hands of a group of low-wage fast-food workers who will then serve as communion assistants to highlight the difference between the honor shown to those who serve at the Lord’s table and the disrespect shown to those who work at fast food counters in the form of unlivable wages. Following communion, the entire gathered assembly will be sent to participate in a rally outside the McDonald’s on Milwaukee Ave. as part of the national #Fightfor15, a movement to create a livable minimum wage.For those who would like to help create the signs we’ll carry to the Logan Square Monument and then to the rally afterwards, the 9am adult forum will be used for sign creation next Sunday.Schedule for Palm Sunday9am: Sign Making in Haberland Hall10:15am: Blessing of the Palms with Church of the Advent & Nuestra Señora de las Americas11:15am: Procession from St. Luke’s to Logan Square Monument11:30am: Ecumenical Service of Holy Communion12pm: Rally for a Living Wage outside McDonald’s on Milwaukee Ave.For more information, see: http://logansquareecumenical.blogspot.com