Weekly News | 4.4.25

Our worship and practices in Lent have been aimed at creating space, clearing room, for renewed attentiveness and faithfulness to God. Several times over, we have highlighted the word "repentance." Part of repentance is the turning from something - sin, most notably, but also, creature comforts or practices of mind, heart, and body that suppresses our felt need and desire of God's restorative presence. 

But the other part of repentance is turning towards God. Fixing our eyes on Jesus. We may do this individually with our varied practices, but the goodness of Holy Week is that we get to turn towards God together. We make space in our calendar for special services that root us in the story of God. It is a way we set our faces like flint towards God's redemption, letting it do its work on us and our lives here and now.

The services listed below each present a unique opportunity for us to turn towards Jesus. 

We heartily welcome him together on Palm Sunday.

We watch as the light gathers and grows dim on Maundy Thursday.

We receive the reality of suffering and death on Good Friday.

And we wait. We wait for Sunday. We wait for God to do what we cannot.

It is no small act of courage to make space, especially when the filling, the enlivening of that space is ultimately in the hands of Another. Let's do it together.