Maundy Thursday at home
With nightfall tonight, our Lenten observance comes to an end, and we join Christians around the world in celebrating the Three Days of Jesus’ death and resurrection. This is one of the most intimate and embodied days of the church year...
Holy Week 2020
Welcome to the week that the church has set aside to remember the mystery of Christ's passion, death, and resurrection. It gives me great strength and wonder to know that even as our world faces global crisis--pandemic exacerbated by pre-existing injustice--Christians around the world this week will open their Bibles, gather around their computer screens, sing across alleyways, and recite from memory the story that has always been the sure foundation of our faith...
The most special night
The church's HOTTEST night is VIGIL OF EASTER. Jesus is BACK and this time he's gone over the top. This feast has got everything...
Holy Week & the Three Days
The Three Days: this is the highlight of the church year. The most ancient of our worship practices, the Triduum (meaning “three days”) is three separate gatherings on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday that make up one service. Each time we meet there is a distinctly different feel and focus.
The Three Days: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil
The story of these three days is our story. Reborn in the waters of baptism, we are sent into the world for lives of costly service, but we are not sent alone. So we gather on these nights with those who are preparing to receive the gift of baptism to remember a supper spent with friends, testimony offered the face of empire, and the God of salvation whose story is as old as creation.