Lent, Holy Week, and Easter

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. 

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

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

This service of healing invites us to contemplate and identify the ways we have strayed from God’s life-giving ways. Recognition and confession of sin promises healing, and absolution of sin deepens that healing. This service will focus on an inward examination of the ways we have gone off course in living God’s way, and missed the mark in becoming beloved community. Worshippers will pray a litany of penitence, and receive forgiveness, healing, and nourishment by Christ’s Holy Feast.

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

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.

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 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.

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 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!

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.