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Weekly Update for March 31

Blessings on this Holy Week, we hope the following items help you to stay connected with your church family. HOLY WEEK WORSHIP AND EVENTS There are several worship opportunities and events this Holy Week including Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter vigil livestream services as well as an outdoor Youth Stations of the Cross on…

Crown of Thorns

And they clothed him in a purple cloak; and after twistingsome thorns into a crown, they put it on him. Mark 15:17 (NRSV) It is just a few metal rods … an unadorned base … and what looks to me like a piston ring housing for a small motor, that has been cut into pieces. …

Holy Week and Easter

We are building a community of faith by God’s grace, and we are digitally gathering for Holy Week and Easter. Holy Week will be experienced differently this year. We will still have worship and devotional time, but our services will be different, in response to the Covid-19 crisis. We invite you to join us for…

Holy Things

To the bath and to the table, to the prayers and the word, I call every seeking soul. As we approach the time of year we call Holy Week, our thoughts turn toward the central things to our existence as Christians. Of course the stories we tell this time of year are important: the command…

The Little Palm Cross in My Hand

Email Devotion For Holy Week Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. (Mark 11:8) Church is over and I am collecting the leftover palms from the usher tables, so that I can wrap them up and save them for next year and…

Holy Week Happenings

There are a great number and variety of events taking place at St. Peter’s in our lead up to Holy Week and Easter. Come join us for these events! SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Easter Egg Hunt Come and join us for all of the fun activities including a puppet show, pictures with the Easter Bunny, and of course,…

Lent and the Center

  Lent is in full swing and we’re rapidly approaching the center of the church year, Holy Week. Late in Lent this lectionary year we hear many readings from the gospel of John. Often cited as being the more difficult and ‘heady’ gospel, John emphasizes the depths of Jesus’ authority and personhood where the synoptic…

Triduum – The Three Days

Triduum Tri-duum Three Days As we enter Holy Week, our thoughts are beginning to turn toward the most holy time in our church calendar. In a couple of short days, we will gather for the great liturgies of the Triduum (tri-duum: literally, three days). Imagined as one event, this is a church service that takes…