Holy week is one of the most sacred weeks of the church year.  It is a time of contemplative reflection, meditation, and prayer.  It is a time of grief.  It is a time of joy.  It is a time of preparation.  It is a time of revelation.

Holy week is one of the most sacred weeks of the church year.  It begins on Palm Sunday, this year 9 April.  This year NPC has something unique, special,

and something I think you will remember for years to come in store for you on Palm Sunday.  The choir has been preparing a Passion Music Presentation.  At the same time, Tanya and some willing actors and actresses have been preparing a series of monologues from some of the key players in the Passion event.  The Drama and the Music will be integrated and presented during our Celebration of Worship on Palm Sunday.  It promises to be a very meaningful event.

On Wednesday, we will gather again for supper and have our first VBS planning meeting.  We will also be stuffing eggs for the Easter Egg hunt, which we will do before and after the meeting.  It is a time of preparation in more ways than one.

Holy week is one of the most sacred weeks of the church year.  On Maundy Thursday, we will do something new this year.  We will meet as usual at the church at 7.00 p.m.  We will worship.  We will celebrate the Lord’s Supper, as is our custom.  It will be a serious, somber evening.  We will strip the nave, which is the term for taking away the things that make the sanctuary look beautiful.  Then, for those that want to stay, we will have a foot-washing to end the service.  We do this on Maundy Thursday because this is the night Jesus washed the disciples’ feet.  The reason we will do it at the end of the service is because we know that some of you, just by reading this, are already nervous.  You don’t have to stay for the foot-washing.  You are invited to, even if it makes you uncomfortable.  Uncomfortable goes with the week.  But you are welcome to come for the service and leave before the foot-washing, if that is what you want.

Good Friday will find us back at 7.00 p.m. for another quiet service.  We will read and meditate on the death of Christ.  Holy week is one of the most sacred weeks of the church year.

And on Easter Sunday, we will celebrate resurrection.  We will begin, as we have, with a casserole brunch.  Come anytime after 9.00 a.m. with something for breakfast in tow.  No Sunday School on Easter, just food, fun, and fellowship.  Worship will begin with Contemporary elements at 10.30, as usual.  At 11.00, we will move into our Traditional elements of worship, including communion.

I hope you will find Holy week experiences filled with contemplative reflection, meditation, prayer, grief, joy, preparation, and revelation.

Be Well,

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus.
– I Corinthians 1:4 (NRSV)

 

 

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