Holy Week

(March 16-22, 2008)

March 16 - Sunday of the Passion (Palm Sunday)

8:00 and 11:00 a.m.:  A palm processional from outside into the nave and congregational reading of the passion according to St. Matthew.

 

March 17, 18 and 19 - Holy Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday

8:30 a.m.:  Daily Prayer

 

March 20 - Maundy Thursday

8:30 a.m.:  Daily Prayer

7:30 p.m.:  Holy Eucharist - The beginning of Triduum (The Three Days)

 

March 21 - Good Friday

  Tre Ore (Three Hour)

Noon - 3:00 p.m.:  A three-hour service which focuses on the words from the cross.  The service begins at noon and is intended to be come-and-go.  Guest preachers offer meditations on the words from the cross.

Noon:  The Rev. Todd Ferguson (Willow Meadows Baptist Church)

     12:30 p.m.:  The Rev. Galen Knutson (Faith Lutheran Church)

     12:55 p.m.:  The Rev. Romonica Malone (Westbury United Methodist Church)

     1:20 p.m.:  The Rev. James Berggren (Holy Cross Lutheran Church)

     1:50 p.m.:  The Rev. Jon Burnham (St. John's Presbyterian Church)

     2:15 p.m.:  The Rev. Herbert Palmer (Interim Bishop's Staff, Texas/Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod)

     2:35 p.m.:  The Rev. Carol Blaine (St. George's and St. Patrick's Episcopal Church)

 

      Tenebre (Darkness)

7:30 p.m.:  A dramatic service remembering Christ's crucifixion.

 

March 22 - Holy Saturday

     Easter Vigil

7:30 p.m.:  Preparation for Easter with readings and baptisms.

 

Easter (March 23)

 

Festival Easter Eucharists

8:00 and 11:00 a.m.:  A joyous, triumphant celebration of the Resurrection; Salem's grandest celebration of the year.

 

Easter Brunch

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.:  Salem's fellowship event of the year.  A wonderful variety of foods will be served continuously in the Family Life Center. 

 

Easter Egg Hunt

10:00 a.m.:  An Easter Egg Hunt for children ages 10 and under in the courtyard begins at 10:00 a.m.