2008 Lenten Theme at Salem: 

'My Soul Waits'

Our Wednesday evening schedule in Lent (beginning February 6):

6:00 p.m.       Supper served in the Fellowship Hall (until 6:45 p.m.)

7:30 p.m.       Lenten Compline - Evening Prayer (Nave)

 

Holy Week Schedule

 

After a particularly short Epiphany season, we begin our Lenten observances with our Ash Wednesday Eucharist on Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m.  This year's theme is My Soul waits form Psalm 13, "I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, an din his word I hope."

 

The theme is particularly apropos considering this is the last Lent and Easter we will celebrate in our current worship space.  We hope that after so many years of meaningful and sincere worship, this season will have special poignancy for everyone.

 

The Holy Week schedule will follow the well-known pattern beginning with special services for Palm/Passion Sunday and continuing with a Maundy Thursday Eucharist, the Tre Ore beginning at noon on Good Friday, a tenebrae service Good Friday evening, and an Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.

 

Easter services will be celebrated at 8:00 and 11:00 a.m. and again this year, the "flowering cross" will be the centerpiece of our Easter decorations.  Gardeners in our congregation might even have time to plant flowers especially for this beautiful decorative addition to our Easter worship. 

 

Holy Week Schedule