Below are Holy Week Greetings from the Headquarters of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. I invite you to take a look.
I also invite you to attend our Holy Week Services, as they are listed below:
Holy Week Schedule 2011
The Triduum –
• April 21 - Maundy Thursday w/communion @ St. John’s Lutheran Belford 7:00 pm
• April 22 - Tre Ore Good Friday @ Immanuel Lutheran Hankinson 12:15 pm (Following the LYF Cross Processional) – All are invited! This is not only an LYF event, the entire church is invited to participate!
o Following the service, we will watch the movie “The Passion of the Christ”
• April 22 - Tenebrae Good Friday @ St. John’s Lutheran Belford 7:00 pm
• April 23 - Easter Vigil @ Immanuel Lutheran Hankinson 7:00 pm
Easter Services
• April 24 - Easter Sunrise @ St. John’s Lutheran Belford 6:30 am followed by LYF Sunrise Breakfast
• April 24 - Easter Service w/communion @ St. John’s Lutheran Belford 8:15 am
• April 24 - Easter Service w/communion @ Immanuel Lutheran Hankinson 9:45 am
Confirmation
• Questioning – 7:00 April 29 @ Immanuel Lutheran
• May 1 – St. John’s 8:15 am. Immanuel 10:00 am.
We are in the midst of Lent, which means our eyes are set toward Easter, and the blessed death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Easter season is what we live for as Christians, because we know that as Christ dies, our sinful selves die with him. As Christ rises on the third day, we too rise, holy and blameless for eternal life in heaven. What a blessed hope and promise God has given to us.
To celebrate the blessings we receive in Easter, this year Immanuel Lutheran and St. John’s Lutheran Churches are going to celebrate the historic Triduum (pronounced Tri-doo-um). The Triduum is an historic service that has been celebrated since the very early years of the church. It begins with Maundy Thursday with the Institution of the Lord’s Supper and continues on Good Friday with Jesus’ suffering on the cross. Finally it ends with the Easter Vigil on Saturday evening, as we boldly await the resurrection of Jesus sometime early in the morning on Easter Sunday. Each of these services flows into the next one, even though we may have a break from church in between them. These services give us an opportunity to focus on the suffering death and resurrection of Jesus Christ for all of our sins, so that we might also be raised with Him into Eternal life. Please feel free to join us!
