Classes Leading to 1st Communion & Confirmation
St. David’s 101 (for adults) NEW start date on March 28 through May 2 Confirmation (except 4/4, Easter) @ 9:15 am
Youth Confirmation class continues through April 25 & May 2 Confirmation (except 4/4, Easter, and 3/14, Spring Break) @ 9:15 am
Lenten Activities
Lenten Bread Sales Sundays, February 21-April 4 from 8:00 am
Easter Activities
Holy Saturday Easter Egg Hunt, Godly Play Story & Lunch
Saturday, April 3, 2010 @ 10:30 am in McAllister Hospitality Hall
Please bring one dozen filled, plastic eggs per child by 3/29.
Sign-up sheets for lunch donations will be available. Contact the church office
for needed items.
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Meditations on the Stations of the Cross
Monday-Thursday, March 29-April 1 at 12:10 pm
Chapel of the Holy Spirit
Maundy Thursday Service with
Foot Washing and Stripping of the Altar
Thursday, April 1 at 7:00 pm
Maundy Thursday Vigil
Will you keep watch with me?
Thursday, April 1 at 8:00 pm-12:00 am
Friday, April 2 at 7:00 am –12:00 pm
Good Friday Service
Friday, April 2 at 12:10 pm & 6:00 pm
Easter Worship Schedule
Easter Sunday Services
April 4, 2010
7:00 am The Great Easter Vigil: Holy Eucharist, Rite I
Special Easter Breakfast served until 10:00 am
10:30 am 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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