Soup Suppers | Wednesdays in Lent
6 p.m. | February 25 – March 25

The St. Barnabas tradition of coming together for a simple soup supper on Wednesdays in Lent continues. Dianne+ will offer a series based on Richard Rohr’s work Embracing an Alternative Orthodoxy.

Sessions:

  1. Atonement Theology “Traditional atonement theology can be summed up by the roadside sign that announces ‘Jesus died for our sins…'”  “An alternative view of atonement (at-one-ment) tells us that God’s love has always come without conditions and still does.”
  2. Eco-Spirituality
  3. The Cosmic Christ
  4. Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxy
  5. Mysticism over Moralism

Questions? Email Rev. Dianne

Sign-up to bring soup and/or bread on the sign-up sheet in the parlor or parish hall, or email parish administrator Etienna Wright, info@stbbi.org. and she will add your items to the sign-up. 

Weekday Prayer at St. Barnabas

Monday, 9 am | Morning Prayer

Tuesday, 9 am | Centering Prayer

Wednesday, 6 pm | Soup Supper, Class (details above), & Compline

Thursday, 9 am | Healing Eucharist

Friday, Noon | Stations of the Cross

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9 p.m. | Compline on Zoom*

*Email the church office to be added to the Zoom email list.

 

A Service of Lament & Healing | Tuesday, March 17 | 7 p.m.

St. Barnabas Episcopal Church offers a service of lament and healing on March 17 at 7 p.m. We bring our whole selves to God during this Lenten season, taking time to lament the troubles of the world alongside our own lives, and asking for God’s healing grace to be with us and our neighbors. Join us for this opportunity for lamentation and healing through communal worship during our Lenten journey together at St. Barnabas.

The private Rite of Reconciliation is available by appoint with clergy. Please call 206/842.5601 to schedule.

 Palm Sunday | Sunday, March 29 | 8 & 10:30 a.m.

Holy week begins with joyful “Hosannas” and the waving of palm leaves as Jesus triumphantly enters the city of Jerusalem.  After the initial Liturgy of the Palms, the service shifts as the congregation shares in a narrative reading of Jesus’ passion and death.

Tenebrae | Sunday, March 29 | 8 p.m.

The ancient monastic liturgy of Tenebrae (“Shadows”) is a sequence of chanted Psalms, readings, and prayers contemplating Christ’s Passion. Throughout this unique Holy Week service, candles and other church lights are gradually extinguished until a single candle, symbolizing Christ, remains. 

 

Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 2 | 6 p.m.

Maundy Thursday begins the three great days leading up to Easter known as the Triduum. Our Maundy Thursday observance will begin with a vegetarian agape meal in the parish hall followed by a transition to the sanctuary where we will observe the Maundy Thursday liturgy of foot washing, Holy Eucharist, and stripping of the altar. For those who have issues with their feet, there will be a station available for hand washing. On the night before his death, Jesus got up from the table, tied a towel around his waist, knelt and washed the feet of his disciples, showing and telling us to do likewise for one another.

 

Good Friday | Friday, April 3 | Noon & 7 p.m.

On this most solemn day, we will worship the liturgy of Good Friday. There will be a sermon but no Communion.

Stations of the Cross will be prayed at 1 p.m.

 

The Great Vigil of Easter | Saturday, April 4 | 8 p.m.

The Great Vigil is the most important liturgy of our Christian year. The service begins outside as a new a new paschal candle is lit from a newly kindled fire. The light of Christ is then carried into a darkened sanctuary where the beautiful Exultet is chanted and God’s saving deeds in history are recounted before Jesus’ resurrection is announced and Easter celebrations begin! The service will conclude with the reading of the Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom. Bring bells!

 

Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 5 | 8 & 10:30 a.m.

Christ is risen!  Between two festive Easter Sunday services there will be celebrations in the parish hall including hot cross buns, mimosas and coffee. There will be a time for fellowship following the second service, including an Easter egg hunt for kids 9 and younger. Older youth are invited to help hide Easter eggs.