Holy Week Worship Opportunities
Community Missions is happy to highlight a few of the in-person and online opportunities. We hope they will help to make your Holy Week celebrations meaningful, and your Easter filled with joy!
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Chapel for April 5, 2023
Today we suggest the Morning Prayer at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. from this past Saturday, April 1. In it, the prayer leader asks the challenging question, what would we leave behind in order to be closer to God.
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Lenten Reading, Day 43
Lenten Daily Reading – Day 43
Text: Isaiah 52:13-53:12
See, my servant shall prosper;
he shall be exalted and lifted up
and shall be very high.
Day 43, Wednesday of Holy Week – Devotional Guide
COSTLY LOVE: Wednesday of Passion Week. I cannot separate myself from the events of the coming days. I try to be like the disciples – not knowing yet what’s coming – but I can’t. I know what’s coming.
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GLORIFIED IN GOD: It is so difficult for us to understand the confusion of the disciples at this moment: they have all followed together, yet now one of them has left.
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Lenten Reading, Day 42
Lenten Daily Reading – Day 42
Text:Psalm 22
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer;
and by night but find no rest.
Be of the Same Mind
“The challenge for our Churches, and for those who belong to them, is to be of the same mind as the Christ whom we profess to follow. We must lay aside our earthly power and be the power of the loving Christ in the lives of those who so desperately need to see his saving power among them.”
Continue reading →Day 41, Monday of Holy Week – Devotional Guide
HOPE IN THE PRESENCE: Jesus is present to us, even in our hopelessness.
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Lenten Reading, Day 41
Lenten Daily Reading – Day 41
Text: Philippians 2:1-11
“If, then, there is any comfort in Christ, any consolation from love, any partnership in the Spirit, any tender affection and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.”