Dear Friends,
We begin a familiar journey for many of us as we step into Holy Week. (
Click Here to see pictures from Palm Sunday) There is a rush of activity with eight services and events from Thursday evening through Easter Sunday. Help is still needed for Good Friday Stations of the Cross and on Holy Saturday in the Community Easter Egg Hunt (see below - who to contact to volunteer)
Specifically you can ask friends, neighbors, colleagues and co-workers to come and join in the Easter Fun (especially the Easter Egg Hunt) - hand out flyers / broadcast in the social media let's be joyfully surprised by the number that attend.
I hope we will all take this opportunity to focus, reflect, ponder, pray, and simply enter in to these moments as we reenact the drama of our great redemption. Clear your calendar, come to services, come to the campus, find a place to be still. From our reading from Philippians 2 on Sunday... he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death-- even death on a cross. Jesus invites us into His passion, as it says later in Philippians 3... To share in the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming like Him in His death that I might attain to the resurrection from the dead. There are lots of ways to respond to this invitation. You can do so personally in your own devotion and piety. The church, the Body of Christ corporately responds with specific prayers and services. Regardless, to get to Easter morning the path leads through the cross.
(On Easter Sunday there will be no Christian Formation Classes)
We will start work soon on a new directory - look for a link soon.
So plug-in, volunteer, pray, get involved, share, serve, give there is much happening...
in the Mission,
Fr. Jon+
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Stations of the Cross for Families and Children - On Good Friday, March 29 at 4pm this has been a fixture in our Holy Week schedule since we began and it is a means of engaging the community in the passion of Jesus walking with Him to the cross. The youth group is taking the lead but this is an opportunity to lend a hand and get involved. Contact Brett Spencer 407-927-0025 or email -
brett@canterburyretreat.org
Community Easter Egg Hunt / Saturday March 30th
(Holy Saturday) 10am- 12noon on the main campus at Canterbury. This is the first time we are doing this for the community and we need to get the word out. For the PDF Flyer to share with friends
CLICK HERE and check out this link...
Click Here This is a family friendly event and we need help with all the things we will do from food and refreshments, crafts, activities, hospitality and more. We will even have special seasonal guest :-). To help and volunteer contact Lydia Pierce at 407-971-9920 or email
clpierce1106@earthlink.net The Holy Week Schedule....
March 28th - Maundy Thursday Service 7pm
March 29th - Good Friday
12noon - Good Friday Service
4pm - Stations of the Cross for Children & Families
8pm - Tenebrae
March 30th - Community Easter Egg Hunt
March 31st - Easter Sunday!
6am - The Great Vigil of Easter - Sunrise
8am - Easter Day Celebration Eucharist (no incense)
10:15am - Easter Day Celebration Holy Baptism and
Eucharist (with incense)
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