You are invited to worship at All Saints’ Church during Holy Week:

The last week of Lent, Holy Week, remembers the last week of Christ’s earthly life, beginning with Palm Sunday’s commemoration of Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Matt 21:1-11).

At All Saints’, you will have the opportunity to worship each day during Holy Week. Nursery care is provided at many of these services (noted below). If you would like nursery care during the Easter Vigil on Saturday, please RSVP to Tara Pedersen.

March 24: Palm Sunday Services (Nursery available for age 5 and under, Sunday School & Children's Church

March 24: Prayer & Worship Hour, 6 p.m. (Nursery care provided upon request, please email with your request)

March 28: Maundy Thursday, 7 p.m. (Nursery care provided)

March 29: Good Friday, 7 p.m. (Nursery care provided)

March 30: Easter Vigil (If you would like nursery care during the Easter Vigil on Saturday, please RSVP to Tara Pedersen.)

March 31: Easter Sunday (Nursery care provided, no Sunday School or Children's Church)

Holy Week Calendar

Palm Sunday

Sunday, March 24, 8:15 & 11 a.m.
Child Care provided, Sunday school for all ages at 9:45 a.m.

On Palm Sunday, we remember Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem (see Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:28-44, and John 12:12-19).

Services on Palm Sunday begin with “the Procession of the Palms,” where worshippers hold palm branches as they process into the church.

Sometimes Palm Sunday is also called/celebrated as “Passion Sunday,” a commemoration of Jesus’ suffering and death. However, Passion Sunday used to be celebrated on the Sunday before Palm Sunday, the fifth and last Sunday of Lent.

Here is the Collect for Palm Sunday:

Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon himself our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

From Holy Week: A Rookie Anglican Guide by Anglican Compass

Maundy Thursday

Thursday, March 28, 7-9 p.m.
Holy Eucharist and foot washing
Nurser Care provided

Maundy Thursday commemorates the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper (see Matt. 26:26-29; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:14-30; 1 Cor. 11:23-25) and Christ’s washing of the disciples’ feet (see John 13:1-15).

Although it is debated, the word “Maundy” most likely derives from mandatum, meaning “mandate” or “commandment,” in reference to Jesus’ words: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another” (John 13:34).

Here are the readings for Maundy Thursday (readings in parentheses are optional):

• Exodus 12:1-14

• Psalm 78:14-25

• 1 Corinthians 11:23-26(27-34)

• John 13:1-15

  • or Luke 22:14-30

Here is the Collect for Maundy Thursday:

Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

From Holy Week: A Rookie Anglican Guide by Anglican Compass

Good Friday

Friday, March 29, 7 p.m.
nursery care provided

On Good Friday, we remember the events leading up to and including the Crucifixion. The Gospel reading for the day is therefore quite long. See John 18:1-19:37.

Here are the readings for Good Friday:

• Genesis 22:1-18 or

• Isaiah 52:13-53:12

• Psalm 22:1-11(12-21)

  • or Psalm 40:1-14

  • or Psalm 69:1-23

• Hebrews 10:1-25

• John (18:1-40) 19:1-37

Here is the Collect for Good Friday:

Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

From Holy Week: A Rookie Anglican Guide by Anglican Compass

Holy Saturday (and the Easter Vigil)

Saturday, March 30, 7 p.m.
If you would like nursery care during the Easter Vigil on Saturday, please RSVP to Tara Pedersen.

On Holy Saturday, we remember the time that Christ spent in the grave.

Here are the readings for Holy Saturday:

• Job 14:1-17

• Psalm 130

  • or Psalm 31:1-5

• 1 Peter 4:1-8

• Matt 27:57-66

  • or John 19:38-42

Here are the Collects for Holy Saturday:

O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life; through Jesus Christ our Lord.Amen.

O God of the living, on this day your Son descended to the place of the dead: Look with kindness on all of us who wait in hope for liberation from the corruption of sin and death, and give us a share in the glory of the children of God, through Jesus Christ your Son, our Lord. Amen.

At the Easter Vigil, we commemorate all of salvation history leading up to the Resurrection!

It’s really pretty amazing. Between covering all of salvation history in a single service, saying “Alleluia!” again for the first time since the beginning of Lent, and celebrating the Resurrection in the early hours of Easter morning, this really is a unique service! Additionally, this is the service at which people were traditionally baptized and welcomed into the Church.

If you’ve never attended an Easter Vigil service, I HIGHLY recommend that you attend one this year!

Here are the readings for the Easter Vigil:

• Genesis 1:1-2:3

• Genesis 3

• Genesis 7:1-5,11-18; 8:6-20; 9:8-13

• Genesis 22:1-18

• Exodus 14:10-15:1

• Isaiah 4:2-6

• Isaiah 55:1-11

• Ezekiel 36:24-28

• Ezekiel 37:1-14

• Daniel 3:1-28

• Jonah 1:1-2:10

• Zephaniah 3:12-20

• Romans 6:3-11

• Matthew 28:1-10

Here is the Collect for Easter Eve (the Easter Vigil):

O God, who made this most holy night to shine with the glory of the Lord’s resurrection: Stir up that Spirit of adoption which is given to your Church in Baptism, that we, being renewed both in body and mind, may worship you in sincerity and truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. 

From Holy Week: A Rookie Anglican Guide by Anglican Compass

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Easter Sunday

Sunday, March 31, 8:15 & 11 a.m.
Nusery Care Provided

On Easter Sunday, we remember and celebrate the triumphal Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead! Easter Sunday then kicks off a period of 50 days traditionally known as Eastertide — ending with Pentecost Sunday.

Here are the readings for the principal service on Easter Day:

• Acts 10:34-43

• or Exodus 14:10-14,21-31

• Psalm 118:14-17,22-24

• Colossians 3:1-4

  • or Acts 10:34-43

• John 20:1-10(11-18)

  • or Matthew 28:1-10

  • or Mark 16:1-8

  • or Luke 24:1-12 (the Gospel reading depends on which year it is)

Here are the Collects for Easter Day:

Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord’s resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

O God, who for our redemption gave your only begotten Son to die upon the cross, and by his glorious resurrection delivered us from the power of death and the devil: Grant us the grace to die daily to sin, that we may live with him in the joy of his resurrection, through the same, Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit now and forever. Amen.

From Holy Week: A Rookie Anglican Guide by Anglican Compass