Holy Week Services

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Holy Week 2020

For all our services, you may download the associated Order of Service or follow along in the Book of Common Prayer (PDF). The readings are available from the online lectionary.

Palm Sunday (April 5)

We celebrated Palm Sunday with a recorded Morning Prayer on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for notifications, and watch on your schedule.

Maundy Thursday @ Home (April 9)

The first holy day of the Triduum (the three holy days of Holy Week) is Maundy Thursday. This year we're providing resources for worshipping at home around an evening meal. Since this day remembers the Last Supper including the footwashing of the disciples by Jesus, it's a perfect fit.

The Order of Service (“bulletin”) can be downloaded and followed in your home. There is some preparation involved, but not much; it would be a great way to experience your first family-led or individual-devotion liturgy:

  1. Download the Order of Service.

  2. Have your home altar all set up, if you're making one.

  3. Prepare a simple meal including bread and wine (substitute as needed).

  4. Choose an officiant (leader) if there are multiple people.

Good Friday (April 10)

The live-streamed Good Friday liturgy will start below at 7:00 pm on Friday (watch on your own schedule afterward):

The second of the Triduum is Good Friday. This year we will have three opportunities to participate in this solemn day:

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Good Friday Service
with Solemn Collects

We will be hosting a live-streamed liturgy on YouTube. Download the Order of Service below and then go to our channel at 7:00 pm this Friday. Subscribe for notifications.

Order of Service (PDF)


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Community Tenebrae Service

We also have the opportunity to experience a community Tenebrae service led by First Presbyterian Church and the Rev. Zac Morton. Many local clergy are participating in the readings and prayers.

Community Good Friday Tenebrae

Stations of the Cross

The amazing artist M. A. Parker (one of Fr. John’s mentors in seminary) has graciously allowed her new woodcuts of the Stations to be used by all for private devotions. An Episcopal church in Georgia has also provided meditations:

Easter Vigil (April 11)

This most holy of the holy days, and the conclusion of the Triduum, will be celebrated in distributed fashion through a series of 10 videos on YouTube. The service begins at 8 pm on Saturday as the sun goes down and the final sunrise service concludes early Easter Sunday morning. You may participate in a number of ways:

  1. You may keep a vigil all night by spacing out the reading/meditations hourly, concluding around dawn.

  2. You may do a partial vigil by watching and meditating between 8 pm and 10 pm or midnight with a selection of readings, or with less space between them.

  3. You may watch only the introduction (with reading 1), a second reading (reading 4 as directed in the Book of Common Prayer), and then pick up the conclusion Mass.

Easter Sunday (April 12)

For a traditional-style First Sunday of Easter service, we welcome all to join with the larger church and worship with the Washington National Cathedral at 11:15 am Eastern. This will be followed with a Virtual Coffee Hour with the parish (see email for details).