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Date:April 14, 2021
Time:8:30am - 9:30am

Sunday 8:30 am: A quiet, traditional, spoken service of Holy Communion using a form in the language of the Book of Common Prayer 1962.

Sunday, April 14th 8:30am & 10:00am – Sunday of the Passion with the Liturgy of the Palms

This service begins with the liturgy of the palms. Palms will be distributed for all as we reenact Jesus’ triumphal procession into Jerusalem. The service quickly turns, as things did for Jesus, to the angry crowd who call for his death. Historically, Palm Sunday stood alone but as many people have stopped attending other Holy Week services there was a need to include the story of the passion on the Sunday before Easter Day. Otherwise, we would go “from the triumph of the palms to the triumph of the resurrection”. This is not how things happened for Jesus, and this is not how things happen for us in our lives. There is great wisdom to be gathered from attention to the betrayal, suffering, death, and waiting that happen during this week.