Lent, Holy Week, and Easter

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.

 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 of the liturgical year, we will celebrate 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 7 p.m. Good Friday service opens the door to deep contemplation of the Passion with Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ, a musical meditation for string quintet.

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 | 9 & 11 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 10 and younger. Older youth are invited to help hide Easter eggs after Holy Eucharist.