Dear Saints and Friends of Grace & Trinity,
The altar is stripped. We’re ready for the cross. The sacred Triduum is underway. Our eyes are set on Easter. If you missed Maundy Thursday, you can watch it here. This morning’s Matins can be seen here. Good Friday’s Chief Service will be at Grace at 12pm. You can join us or follow live on FB. Then we’ll close with a Tenebrae Vespers at 8pm at Trinity (see Trinity’s FB page).
Today’s devotion from John Donne’s Holy Sonnet, “Death Be Not Proud” reflects on the impotency and poverty of death. Thanks be to God! By trampling down death by His death, He makes for us death to be nothing more than a sleep; as Donne says, “One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally”.
Here are the upcoming Bulletins for each of the services.
Good Friday Chief Service (12pm at Grace)
Good Friday Tenebrae Service (8pm at Trinity)
Easter Vigil (8pm at Trinity)
Easter Sunday (9:30am at Trinity)
Again, 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. Good Friday, the Easter Vigil, and Easter Sunday will all be conducted with Holy Communion AND will be live-streamed. If you would like to attend, you are free to do so, provided you uphold our Social Distancing measures and let me know in advance, so I can try to keep the services near the 10-person limit. The week of Easter I would like to offer a number of opportunities to receive the Sacrament—a continuation of Easter. Please let me know if you would like to receive Communion next week and we’ll arrange a time to do so. Finally, please know that if you are choosing to self-isolate—either individually or as a family—there is no obligation to attend (though I encourage you to participate by reading the texts, singing the hymns, and praying the prayers), nor should there be any guilt for not attending.
Also, here’s the news/notes, and the congregation at prayer
for Sunday.
If you’ve missed any of the services or my daily devotions and don’t have FB, please see my YouTube channel.
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Many blessings and rest to you all in Christ our life,
-Pastor