Holy Week
Holy Week at Grace
Holy Week takes on a very different dimension for God’s people this year. We find ourselves physically distant from one another. This gives us an opportunity to reflect on Jesus’ growing distance from others in the Holy Week story – separate from the Pharisees and religious leaders’ hard-heartedness, separate from disciples by fear that changed their allegiance even to death to abandonment; separate from the world itself on the cross. Yet in all this, Jesus remained Jesus – his name meaning “he will save/rescue/deliver” – and he did not separate from us, but gave himself freely for us, so that we might live. This is something to consider deeply and with grateful hearts as we continue to meet electronically, and as we continue to live as God’s people in this “coronavirus world.”
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Palm Sunday
Sunday, April 5th – 10:00AM via Grace YouTube channel We celebrate with a Palm-strewn worship space, and begin Holy Week remembering Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem, and the fact that God the Son “emptied himself, even to death on a cross,” for the sake of God’s love for the whole world. Maundy Thursday Thursday, April 9th –7:00PM via Grace YouTube channel We remember Jesus in the upper room with his disciples, and his command to love one another, and worship with special music and the stripping of the altar. Good Friday Friday, April 10th - 7:00PM via Grace YouTube channel We wait at the foot of the cross, knowing this is the place where Jesus gave his life for the sake of our lives, and declared that it is from the cross that we follow him.
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