Whether you decide to join in the Zoom prayer service or to have a private home service, a little preparation will help you enter into a sacred time and space. Follow along with Sunday worship using our Order of Service.
The Order of Service is for home printing, and can be reused. The Sunday readings and hymns should be downloaded as its accompaniment.
The web .pdf incorporates Sunday readings and hymns, and allows easy scrolling on smartphone screens.
Whether you decide to join in the Zoom prayer service or to have a private home service, a little preparation will help you enter into a sacred time and space.
Set up your worship space at your table, if possible, and have a candle to light and a simple meal such as bread, cheese, fruit, hummus, olives, and wine (or its substitute) set out. We will give thanks for our food and one another and hear the call to self-giving love.
You can choose whether you wish to eat online or off. Either way, when you are done, you are invited to strip your homes in preparation for Good Friday.
To follow along with readings, hymns, and prayers, download the order of service. The print booklet is formatted for printing out at home:
Get the mobile format for scrolling on your smartphone:
Jesus prayed in the garden and asked his disciples to watch with him. Listen to the Watch Gospel, read by The Rev’d Rhonda Waters.
How to join the service:
Pray on your own, knowing you are not alone or join the service on Zoom. The Zoom link is available through the parish email list or on request from the office. This service will not be recorded.
This moving service uses simple language and the hope-filled refrain that love is stronger than death to tell the story of Jesus’ journey to the cross in a way that is suitable for children as well as adults. Unlike a traditional Stations service or the Liturgy of Good Friday, we end the service with the (quiet) good news of the Resurrection in order to ensure our youngest members feel safe and reassured as they wait for Sunday.
How to join the service:
This service will take place on Zoom at 10 am. The link is available in the parish email or by request from the office. The service itself will not be recorded, however, Rhonda and Aude have prepared a recording of the story and song for those who wish to use it on their own. It will be posted on Friday, April 2.
No order of service is needed.
Set up your worship space with just a cross—perhaps one you make for the occasion by tying two found sticks together.
This Good Friday service includes the reading of the Passion of Christ according to St. John, the solemn intercessions, and a time of meditation on the Cross of Jesus.
How to join the service:
Pray the service on your own or join others on Zoom. The link is in the parish email or is available on request from the office. Only the sermon will be recorded and made available, along with the contemplative music videos, after the service.
