Every year on Good Friday, pilgrims from all over the world gather to walk along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. Some carry a cross, to understand better the nature of the burden that Jesus bore. Others accompany them, as witnesses, as penitents, as believers. By dying on the cross at Calvary, Jesus delivered us from [...]
Read full post...[ April 11, 2009; 9:00 pm; ] From the 1st Century, the Church’s primary celebration of the Resurrection has taken place in the middle of the night on Saturday. It was at this liturgy that the majority of people were baptized. It is the central festival and core of the Church Year.
The Great Vigil of Easter consists of four parts:
The Liturgy [...]
Read full post...[ April 9, 2009; 7:30 pm; ] Please join us this Holy Week for an evening Maundy Thursday service and Gesthemane Vigil.
The word “Maundy” in this day’s title cmes from the Latin word “mandatum” which means “commandment”. It is taken from the Gospel according to John’s account of Jesus’ washing of the disciples’ feet at the Last Supper.
On this day we rejoice [...]
Read full post...[ April 5, 2009; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Please join us on Palm Sunday for a single 10:00 A.M. service, beginning with a procession from the Undercroft to the Nave.
The central experience of all worship at Redeemer is communion with Christ and reappropriation of the redemptive power of God in and through receiving the consecrated bread and wine.
However, every liturgy has a thematic [...]
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There are over 50 volunteer activities posted in the Undercroft to help you make Holy Week your own. Some activities are just for the DOING, some have a rehearsal to prepare you TO DO. We hope the “color coordination†helps you find what is best for you.
Activities [...]
The music, arts and flower folks are planning wonderful things for Holy Week liturgies. Your donations are gratefully accepted to help pay for guest musicians, altar piece materials, etc. Thanks in advance for helping to create an inspiring culmination of our Lenten journey.
If you’d like to make a donation to help support these programs, please [...]
Singing with the Choir during this time is a wonderful opportunity to participate more fully in the liturgies and community life of Redeemer. All adults and teens with an interest in singing are welcome. For more information, please contact Sheila Bristow at music@redeemer-kenmore.org.
Choir schedule for Lent and Holy Week
What’s your story?
Every year, anyone from the parish is welcome to present one of the six readings for the night of the Great Paschal Vigil, which is on April 11 this year.
If you want to seize this opportunity to sing, act, play an instrument, read a poem or short story, or tell one of these [...]
A very sincere thank you to all who made the logistics of Holy Week happen. These include:
Helping in the food activities, making lunch on Lazarus Saturday, dinner on Maundy Thursday, setting up for and cleaning up after lunch, dinner, or the Agape.
Preparing the Education Building for the Altar of Repose, setting up for [...]
“The words of the Exultet mean exactly what they say. This is the night when we have passed over from death to life, and bondage to sin has been broken. This is the night that the past and the present and the future have come together and there is no time. It’s not a metaphor. [...]
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