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This is the Holy Week and Easter Day schedule for 2021 at Church of the Redeemer in Kenmore, Washington. All services are presented online. Link for each day has livestreaming information. You may watch the services live or when they are convenient for you.

Read the lessons for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil, and Easter Day.

In addition to attending these online services, we invite you to use the Stations of the Cross devotions on this website.

Because the building is closed at this time due to coronavirus restrictions, you are invited to sign-up for Communion of the Presanctified. One household at a time may come to an outdoor part of the church to receive communion from bread that has been blessed earlier (pre-sanctified). Your time slot is for your household alone. The Rev. Jed Fox will be happy to speak with you all briefly during your visit.

Select one of the available times from the calendar for March 30 or April 1. Each slot is 20 minutes long. This allows Fr. Jed to clean and prepare for the next household.

You will receive communion of the presanctified on the portico of the Education Building. Please arrive promptly as a courtesy to the sacrament and your fellow parishioners.

If you have any questions, contact The Rev. Jed Fox at rector@redeemer-kenmore.org.

Holy Week

From early times Christians have observed the week before Easter as a time of special devotion. As the pilgrim Egeria recorded in the late fourth century, Jerusalem contained many sacred places that were sites for devotion and liturgy.

Numerous pilgrims to the holy city followed the path of Jesus in his last days. They formed processions, worshipped where Christ suffered and died, and venerated relics. From this beginning evolved the rites we observe today on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. These services provide a liturgical experience of the last days of Jesus’ earthly life, as well as the time and events leading up to his resurrection.

The Book of Common Prayer provides special liturgies for each of these days. The Eucharistic lectionary also provides proper readings for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Holy Week.

Some parishes observe the service of Tenebrae on one of these days in Holy Week.

In many dioceses, the diocesan clergy will make a reaffirmation of ordination vows in the context of a Eucharist during Holy Week, usually before Maundy Thursday.

The three holy days, or Triduum, of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are at the heart of the Holy Week observance.

In many Episcopal parishes, the liturgical color for Holy Week from Palm Sunday through Maundy Thursday is red. Holy Week ends at sundown on the Saturday before Easter, or with the celebration of the Easter Vigil.

(Above taken from Holy Week.)

Church of the Redeemer

Welcome to Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.