- Wednesday:
- 9am Matins at Grace (w/Live-Stream on Grace’s FB page)
- 8pm Compline (w/Live-Stream on Trinity’s FB page)
- Maundy Thursday:
- 9am Matins at Grace (w/Live-Stream on Grace’s FB page)
- 8pm Divine Service (w/Live-Stream on Trinity’s FB page)
- Good Friday:
- 9am Matins at Grace (w/Live-Stream on Grace’s FB page)
- 12pm Good Friday Chief Service at Grace (w/Live-Stream on Grace’s FB page)
- 4-5pm Private Absolution at Trinity
- 8pm Tenebrae Vespers (w/Live-Stream on Trinity’s FB page)
- Holy Saturday:
- 8pm Easter Vigil at Trinity (w/Live-Stream on Trinity’s FB page)
· These services are all live-streamed, but they are NOT closed services.
· While we encourage people to stay home and strengthen their individual and family prayer disciplines, we are not turning anyone away from the hearing of the word or the reception of the Sacrament.
· Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil, and Easter Sunday will all be conducted as usual AND will be live-streamed. If you would like to attend, you are free to do so, provided you uphold our Social Distancing measures (see below) and let me know in advance, so I can try to keep the services near the 10-person limit.
IN THE PEW:
· Every other pew
· No one next to the aisles
· Families may remain close, but if non-family individuals share a pew, they must retain 6 feet of separation (further than an arm-length of each)
AT COMMUNION:
· Single-file line, family-by-family—others wait in pew until the last person from the pew ahead has approached the Pastor—without kneeling at railing (“drive-by” style)
· Everclear-soaked purificator and fortified wine for the chalice for those who so desire it, while the individual glasses will, for the time being, be the preferred option.
· No communion on the tongue
· Individual glasses skipping every other slot (to space them out and prevent fingers touching the lips of other glasses)
· I’ll stand in the middle (at entrance to chancel) with the Host, Pr. Metzger on one side of me with the chalice (spaced out 6-feet) and an elder on the other with the tray of individual glasses
· A general dismissal at the end of everyone having communed
BEFORE SERVICE:
· One usher/elder at Church entrance door, one at sanctuary entrance door, ensuring that only one family at a time is in the narthex
· Bulletins not passed out, but spread out for individuals to take from bench and card-table
AFTER SERVICE:
· No greeting line
· Congregation excused individually by family, beginning with the back pews
· Again, one family in Narthex at a time with an usher/elder holding Church entrance door open to minimize individuals touching the handles.
· Ask that bulletins be disposed of in recycling bin
OTHER LOCATIONS:
· Cry Room/Nursery: Single-person/family occupancy. When vacated, turn light off.
· Office/Sacristy: Only pastors, assisting elder, sub-deacon, altar guild, and treasurer, each upholding the appropriate 6-foot rule.
· While vesting, one at a time in sacristy
· Altar guild will wait to clean-up until servers have removed vestments