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FIND YOURSELF IN THE STORY
Reflect & Revive during Holy Week 
 
The journey from Palm Sunday to Easter invites us to place ourselves in the last week of Jesus' life. It allows us to share in the pain and joy of Jesus' disciples. It challenges us to think about our call to serve the Lord. You are invited to journey with Christ, to find your place in this story, and to ultimately experience a love so strong that it sacrifices life, triumphs over death, and brings new and abundant life.

Our Holy Week journey brings us to the heart of our faith.  The Three Sacred Days, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil, are traditionally understood as one act of worship taking place over the course of three days. Once the service begins with the opening procession on Maundy Thursday, there is no closing benediction until the conclusion of the Easter Vigil.

This three-day journey into the depths of our faith, allows time and space to experience the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus as one great saving act of God.  In Hebrew, the word "salvation" can suggest the idea of spaciousness. God's saving love is spacious, broad and deep. The church, in its wisdom, knew that the story of our salvation, was something so great that its meaning was most deeply experienced over time.

In the Three Sacred Days, eternity and time meet as we remember the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus, and give thanks for a love so vast that it opens unto us in new and unending life. 

Scripture tells us that God's time is not our time, and so we journey through Holy Week by creating time and space to experience the richness and mystery of God's unending grace.

Each service offers a unique faith experience. We invite you to explore any or all of the services. 

Holy Week is March 20 - 27. 


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Caring for Our Children and Youth

"The pitter-patter of little feet as our children join the congregation after Children's Chapel makes me happy!"  Words of gratitude for our ministries to children and youth are plentiful.  A youth who attended pilgrimage reflected, "It has formed me into the person I am today."

Our mission at Christ Church Cathedral to children and youth is to nurture them as disciples of Jesus to live their faith in the world.  The goal in front of us is to strengthen those ministries and take them to the next step.  To that end, we invited Ministry Architects, leaders in ministry with children and youth, to help us with this work.

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The Great Fifty Days of Easter

The season of Eastertide encompasses the fifty days from the eve of Easter Sunday until the day of Pentecost. During this season of feasting and rejoicing, we celebrate the triumph of Christ over the power of death.

Through Christ's Resurrection the world is reborn, we are reborn. It is a time to consider anew how love might triumph over the destructive patterns of our own lives.  The word "Resurrection" in Greek literally translates "the standing up again."  God raises up fallen creation to stand in the fullness of God's grace.  During this Resurrection celebration, we hear God's call to recommit ourselves to a way of life that is prepared to sacrifice in order that all might share in God's abundant love.  By Christ's rising, we have the opportunity to rise again to embrace a life that is always reconciling, always making new. 
For more information about the Lenten events, contact Margaret Christensen at 859-254-4497 or mchristensen@ccclex.org.
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