Our worship includes a blessing of the palms and singing our Hosannas to Jesus. The mood rapidly shifts to remembering Jesus Passion as we hear the story of his arrest and crucifixion from Luke’s gospel. To know the joy of Easter we enter the pain of Holy Week.

We remember Jesus celebrating the Lord’s Supper with his disciples, his washing their feet as an example to us of serving one another, and his commandment to them to “Love one another as I have loved you.” The service includes foot washing and handwashing, the “stripping of the altar area” in remembrance of the way […]

We mark the day of Christ’s suffering, crucifixion, and death. In John’s passion account, Jesus reveals the power and glory of God, even as he is put on trial and sentenced to death. Standing with the disciples at the foot of the cross, we pray for the whole world in the ancient bidding prayer, as […]

The tomb is empty! Christ is risen! Like Mary Magdalene and the other women who went to the tomb we experience the risen Lord and our sadness and weeping end. “Now no more can death appall, now no more the grave enthrall; You have opened paradise, and your saints in you shall rise. Alleluia!” At […]

The tomb is empty! Christ is risen! Like Mary Magdalene and the other women who went to the tomb we experience the risen Lord and our sadness and weeping end. “Now no more can death appall, now no more the grave enthrall; You have opened paradise, and your saints in you shall rise. Alleluia!” At […]