Some services in the Sanctuary will be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. Recorded services can be found on this website HERE.

Childcare for children through age 4 will be available on Palm Sunday from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. and on Easter Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.—in the Nursery on the lower level below the Sanctuary.

* Indicates services with incense.

Saturday

This service will start outside and process indoors. We will gather in the upper parking area for a procession with palm branches—around the front circle, then enter the Chapel—to reenact Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The Passion will be read, and palms will be blessed.

Join us as we gather outside for a procession with palm branches to reenact Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Please bring blankets or lawn chairs to set up where desired, then gather in the upper parking area to process around the front circle. The Passion will be read, and palms will be blessed.

Drive through the Front Circle to receive palms and Holy Communion from your car.

The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday

This service will also be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. The service will start outside and process indoors. We will gather in the upper parking area for a procession with palm branches—along the columbarium, around the Chapel, then enter the church—to reenact Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. There will be bells and a drum. Children will line the narthex and wave palms as the procession passes. The Passion will be read, and palms will be blessed.

Nursery Care: On Palm Sunday, childcare for children through age 4 will be available from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. in the Nursery, located on the lower level below the Sanctuary.

Monday in Holy Week

Tuesday in Holy Week

Wednesday in Holy Week

Maundy Thursday

The Agape (or “love feast”) was a regular feature of the life of the early church. Apparently when the celebration of the Eucharist was separated from an actual meal, the tradition of fellowship meals modeled on the Lord’s Supper remained. The Agape eventually became a charity supper in which the church fed the poor, but its original purpose was Christian table fellowship. On Maundy Thursday, we gather in gratitude for the life in Christ we share as a parish family, and bring bread, cheese, fruits, “Mediterranean style” simple foods and wine to share.

This service will also be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. We reenact Jesus’ demonstration of what it means to be a servant through the care of serving one another in the washing of feet. The service concludes with the Stripping of the Altar in preparation for the observance of Good Friday.

Each year, St. Mary’s Altar Guild creates an indoor garden in St. Mary’s Chapel as a gift to the Parish. Following the Maundy Thursday evening liturgy, a Prayer Vigil begins in our candle-lit Chapel, keeping watch throughout the night until noon. There is a poster in the narthex where you can sign up for a time of prayer in the Chapel, or feel free to come as the Spirit moves you. The front doors will remain unlocked with lights on in the narthex, and there are prayer books, hymnals, and plain paper available. Keeping watch in our “Garden of Gethsemane” can be a wonder-filled and grace-filled blessing.

Good Friday

This service will also be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. The devotion known as the Way of the Cross is an adaptation of an ancient 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. The Stations of the Cross at Holy Comforter will include musical responses, projected imagery, and readings.

This service will also be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. Good Friday is a day of intense sorrow, but of sorrow that holds tightly to Christian hope. The remembrance of what Jesus Christ suffered for us cannot fail to arouse in us feelings of sorrow and regret for our share in the brokenness of the world. The liturgy falls in four parts:

Liturgy of the Word

Veneration of the Cross and Solemn Collects

Holy Communion

Sealing of the Sanctuary Doors and Departure in Silence

The Sunday of the Resurrection: Easter Sunday

Nursery Care: On Easter Sunday, childcare for children through age 4 will be available from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Nursery, located on the lower level below the Sanctuary.