Everything [in] Between for Holy Week

This weekend, the season of Lent morphs into Holy Week with Palm Sunday. “The space between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday is worth lingering in, now more than ever. As society becomes increasingly polarized, Holy Week challenges the dichotomies that divide humanity into categories like powerful and powerless, enemy and friend, innocent and guilty, “us” and “them.” As violence continues to be the favored tool of many nations, Holy Week exposes the injustice of punitive “justice.” As disease and climate change continue to wreak havoc across our country and the planet, this sacred time lets us practice sitting with and protesting our own and others’ pain.” — A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org

Through Communion, prayer, music, meditative Taizé songs, conversation, imaginative monologues, and reflections, our Holy Week services are designed to give us a chance to honestly sit with our doubts and our beliefs, our grief and our hope. Our Holy Week worship experiences are mean to help us meet God exactly where we are. 

GATHERING for HOLY WEEK Worship Experiences

Tomorrow, Palm Sunday, April 13, 9:30am, we get a taste of Jesus’ reception in Jerusalem. 

Maundy Thursday, April 17, 6:30pm, we offer a simple soup supper because a meal together is the setting for Jesus’ teaching on sharing bread and cup and loving one another. (‘Maundy’ comes from the Latin for ‘command.’)

Good Friday, April 18, 10:00am, Community Prayer Walk at Channahon UMC, we walk, sing, and pray the stations of the cross with siblings in Christ from area Lutheran, Catholic, and Methodist churches. 

Good Friday, April 18, 7:00pm, back here at Minooka UMC for Good Friday evening, we read and sing through the final hours of Jesus’ life, progressively extinguishing candles.

Holy Saturday, April 19, 7:00pm, truly an in-between time as we sit with the fact that Jesus died and wonder: How did that feel for Jesus’ original followers? What could possibly be next?

Easter Sunday, April 20, 9:30am, the joyful surprise of Easter Sunday morning: Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed!