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For more information about any of these events, please call the church office at 210-824-2481.
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Lenten Bread Sales
Lenten Bread Sales Sundays, February 21-April 4 from 8:00 am
Following both services
Bakers and Buyers are needed!
Please bring priced breads to McAllister Hospitality Hall on Sunday mornings.
All proceeds benefit the Good Samaritan Community Services daycare lunch program.
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Holy Week Services:
Good Friday Service
Friday, April 2
6:00 p.m.
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Easter Egg Hunt and Family Luncheon on
Holy Saturday, April 3 at 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Please bring to the church office 12 filled plastic eggs per child in a ziplock bag. Food donations are needed for the luncheon: fruit & veggie trays, sandwiches (PB&J, chicken salad, ham & cheese, turkey & cheese), deviled eggs, carrots, Goldfish, and Easter napkins, plates, cups. There is a sign up sheet in McAllister Hospitality Hall. For more information, contact Jill Fitch @ 824-2481.
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Easter Sunday Services
April 4, 2009
7:00 a.m. The Great Easter Vigil: Holy Eucharist, Rite I
Special Easter Breakfast until 10:00 am
10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Rite II with Flowering of the Cross
Nursery available
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What is THE GREAT VIGIL OF EASTER?
This service is much more than a sunrise service. It dates back centuries and is believed to be the oldest liturgy for the celebration of Easter in both Eastern and Western Christianity. The vigil starts with a candle light procession lead by the Paschal Candle into the darkened church, as responsorial acclamations are pronounced....., the most dramatic of any liturgy of the whole Church Year. All this very much represents the breaking of the darkness of sin and death by the light of Christ (the Paschal Candle), and is certainly a fitting sequel to Good Friday.This is then followed by the EXULTET, a sung Easter proclamation, calling all to the anticipated feast that is to come. Next comes a series of Old Testament readings starting with the story of creation, followed by other stories recalling how God loved and saved his people throughout Old Testament history. In between these readings are songs and Psalms which add commentary to the readings.The RENEWAL OF BAPTISMAL VOWS ends this sequence of anticipation and preparation, and Easter begins. And hopefully, by this time the sun is up as we begin the Easter Eucharist, celebrating with Easter Alleluias and Easter hymns!
Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us :
Therefore, let us keep the feast. Alleluia!
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