Holy Week 2024
The epicenter of Christianity is Love, and this week we enter the epicenter.
May we do so in Love.
~ Cynthia Bourgeault
Palm Sunday, March 24 through Easter Sunday, March 31
We are about to embark on Holy Week, the most sacred and mystical passage in the Christian year, when we ritually re-live and re-claim the very epicenter of Christianity, as Jesus reveals the depth of love and wagers his very life for the reality of the premise he has staked his whole ministry on: that love is stronger than death — love is the strongest power in the world — stronger than fear — stronger than hatred — stronger than division — stronger than violence. This is the moment, this week, when we again have the opportunity in a very special way to enter into this mystery of love with him, confront our own fears and shadows, and emerge as shareholders in his resurrection — not only through faith but through our own lived experience…
EASTER SUNDAY AT THE CENTER
Sunday, March 31 | 8:45 am
Celebrate the risen Christ with us at The Center for Christian Spirituality.
Holy Week Services
Palm Sunday
March 24 at 8:45 am. in the Chapel
Join us this Sunday in the Chapel or on our Livestream or our FB Page as we contemplatively enter Holy Week.
Holy Wednesday
March 27 at 6:30 pm in the Anchor House
Enter into the Holy Wednesday narrative of Mary Magdalene anointing Jesus. After a brief time of welcome, we will enter into a Contemplative Remembrance of this act that Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.” (Mark 14:9) There will be chant, readings, silence, and a time for anointing in the Labyrinth at The Anchor House.
Maundy Thursday
A Contemplative Remembrance with Holy Communion
March 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the Anchor House
Join us for a special Sacred Supper in The Anchor House. This will be a different kind of potluck dinner where we remember the Last Supper where Jesus broke bread and gave thanks with his beloved ones. After supper we will have a brief liturgy and celebrate communion. Please R.S.V.P. to Haley to let us know you’re coming and what you plan to bring.
Good Friday
A Contemplative Remembrance with Holy Communion
Friday, March 29, 9:00am, Noon in The Anchor House
The Stations of the Cross and the Labyrinth will be available from 9 am for prayer and meditation, followed by a brief service at Noon. During these thirty minutes or so at the time of day that we remember when Jesus surrendered his all to God and “breathed his last” (Luke 23:46), we will have a time of contemplative chant, including chanting the words Yeshua said in Aramaic when he died, Lectio Divina on this passage as it is found in Luke 23, and 5 minutes of silence as Centering Prayer. We will come out with a chant again as we depart to live the inner dimension of Jesus’s soul gesture of surrender into the rest of our days.