Holy Week Services, Wed/Th.

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You can bring flowers to adorn Christ’s tomb (red and white preferred, but all flowers are welcome) in a vase to the Thursday evening Matins service (below, bottom).

Holy Week Services:

Tomorrow, Wed. Ap. 12: 5:30pm – Pre-sanctified Liturgy (approx. 1.5 hrs.) – at the Christchurch Anglican 46 13 Ave. S (old yellow church just up from Safeway corner of 1St and 13 Ave. S).

All during Great Lent on Wed. evenings we are blessed to serve the beautiful service of pre-sanctified Liturgy. This Wednesday evening is the last chance to come to one of these special services before next Great lent.

Thurs. Ap. 13: 10:30 am: St. Basil Vesperal Divine Liturgy (approx. 2 hrs.) at the Anglican Church

The Lord’s supper is given to us as a saving sacrament to strengthen and transform us from this day until His second coming; as we celebrate with thankfulness the start of our Lord going to His voluntary passion to redeem all of mankind.

Thur. Ap. 13 – time and location change: Now 6:30 pm – Matins with the 12 Passion Gospel Readings (appx 2.5 hrs.)

– at the Hall; 120 7th Ave. S. ½ block down the street and across the street from the church.

“Today He who hung the earth upon the waters is hung on the tree. The King of the Angels is decked with a crown of thorns. He who wraps the heavens in clouds is wrapped in the purple of mockery…We worship Your Passion O Christ. We worship Your Passion O Christ. Show us also Your glorious Resurrection.”

Today we accompany Christ our Lord as He voluntarily goes from the Garden of Gethsemane to be crucified and laid in his tomb by Joseph of Arimathea and the righteous Nicodemus. We contemplate our Lord’s journey in the 12 Gospel readings and in the deep and moving verses in the Canon and interspersed between the Gospel readings the Beatitudes and the Praises throughout this touching service. We are called to experience the power of this eternal and ever-present reality of Christ’s work for our sake, not as a distant historical event, but personally in the eternal here and now of our lives.