Good Friday Liturgy
2023-04-07
At the Good Friday Liturgy we come together to hear Saint John’s record of the Passion. We pray for the church and for the world in the Solemn Collects. We contemplate the mysteries of the cross, and are invited to approach the foot of the Cross in Adoration. The Holy Eucharist is not celebrated today.
We maintain silence as we come and go. Jesus has been crucified and is brought to the tomb.
The Way of the Cross
2023-04-07
The devotion known as the Way of the Cross is an adaptation to local usage of a custom widely observed by pilgrims to Jerusalem: the offering of prayer at a series of places in that city traditionally associated with our Lord’s passion and death.
After the Concluding Prayers, the pilgrims are invited to take their places in the pews for the Good Friday Liturgy.
Maundy Thursday
2023-04-06
In the midst of the sorrow of Holy Week, we rejoice in the institution of the Eucharist. We use flowers and the color white for joy.
The washing of feet symbolizes the law of love and reflects the servanthood of leadership: we remember the story of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples.
After Eucharist, the Altar and Sanctuary are stripped bare representing Jesus’ abandonment in the garden of Gethsemane and his being stripped of his clothes before crucifixion. At the end of the service we follow the sacrament to the Altar of Repose (in the chapel), symbolizing Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. We maintain silence as we leave.