Parish Cleanup Day Tomorrow! | Notes for Palm Sunday
Trinity Anglican Church 929 11th St, Marysville, CA
Dear Church,
Readings for Liturgy of the Palms and Palm Sunday:
Matthew 21:1–11 (Liturgy of the Palms)
Isaiah 49:1–9 ; Philippians 2:5–11 ; Matthew 27:1–54 (Palm Sunday)
Tomorrow, Saturday April 12:
Parish Cleanup Day @ 9AM-12PM
Please help get the facilities cleaned and ready for Holy Week and Easter! If you can help by volunteering your time, we can find something for you to do! Whether you can help with a little or a lot, "many hands make light work."
Upcoming:
Sunday April 13: Palm Sunday @ 10AM
Thursday April 17: Maundy Thursday Eucharist, Stipping of the Altar, and Tenebrae @ 6PM
Friday April 18: Good Friday Prayer Service @ Noon
Sunday April 20: Easter Sunday @ 10AM
Continuing sharing some thoughts on the liturgy:
Rowan Williams (former Archbishop of Canterbury), offers this insight:
What exactly [Thomas] Cranmer or others might have meant by the words of particular prayers, or even by the ordering of particular elements of the liturgy, matters rather less, I dare to say, than the fact of an invitation to inhabit such a world. And what the tradition of Prayer Book Catholicism in Anglicanism represents is, above all, an attempt to receive flexibly and imaginatively the legacy of the Prayer Book’s words and structures; to ease and resolve some of the tensions that arise; to smooth out the edges of controversial sharpness in phrases and practices, and to illustrate how it’s possible, once again, for liturgy to be both profoundly anchored in a common and creative past and to be flexible and responsive in the present.
(Thomas Cranmer: Prayer Book Catholic? in the Prayer Book Society UK Journal Faith and Worship, 2024)
Blessings,
Fr Jonah+