Welcome to Holy Week 2024
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Welcome to Holy Week 2024

Holy Week is the church’s annual experience of the heart of the Christian faith. There ought to be no immersion into suffering without the gift of the resurrection, and there ought to be no Easter without Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. This three-day worship is sometimes called by its Latin name, the Triduum. Whether this is your first or hundredth Holy Week, St. Luke’s warmly welcomes you as we keep these special days together…

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Lent in Plain Sight
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Lent in Plain Sight

God works through the ordinary. Ordinary people, everyday objects, things we bump up against moment by moment. Each week in Lent, we will contemplate an object that we encounter in our daily living. In doing so, we practice faith that God is present and speaking everywhere, in all things, all creation…

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“There were also women” Lent 2024
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“There were also women” Lent 2024

This year St. Luke’s will use as our roadmap for the Lenten journey a new resource called “A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church” by womanist biblical scholar and Episcopal priest Rev. Dr. Wilda C. Gafney. Central to Dr. Gafney’s critically acclaimed lectionary series is the conviction that “it ought to be possible to tell the story of God and God’s people through the most marginalized characters in the text.” …

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