A Holy Week schedule is planned for the Church of the Nativity, which includes nightly services at 7 p.m. in the Nave. During Holy Week, the church is also open from 7 a.m.m to 9 p.m. for personal or group prayer, with prayer stations and materials for guidance.
Monday's "Service of Sorrows"is 45 minutes to recall loved ones who have died, "commending them to God, and allowing ourselves to grieve again. Please invite those who are grieving, so that, together, we might find the hope for grieving in Christ." Tuesday's Trinity service is a 45-minute Prayer Service using candles and music from the Taize community in France.
Join for Tenebrae on Wednesday, which Church of the Nativity calls "a thoughtful 45-minute service of readings, prayers, and candlelight, all anticipating the events of Good Friday."
On Friday at noon, seven parishioners present reflections of the last words of Jesus crom the cross, inviting song and prayer. At 2:30 p.m., a Children's Stations of Love includes teachings that revolve around the messages in the stained glass windows.
The Holy Eucharist takes place on Friday at Church of the Nativity. The service lasts an hour and remembers Jesus' Last Supper at the tables in the hall, followed by a soup and bread seder supper at 5:30 p.m. when there is a re-enactment of the passover meal with his disciples. At 7 p.m., partipants can hear scriptures and messages at the tables, and are invited to wash one another's hands, faces or feet. Communion takes place after, followed by a procession to a darkened Nave for the stripping of the altar.
Also at Church of the Nativity on Saturday at 5 p.m., there is an Easter Communion Celebration, followed by a community egg hunt at 4:30 p.m. This is followed by a bonfire and music for youth outside at 6:30 p.m.
There is a service at 6:15 a.m. on Easter Sunday at Ellsworth-McAfee Park. Church of the Nativity then hosts the Holy Eucharist in the Nave at 7:45 a.m. at the church with joyful Easter hymns, and there is a service also at at 10 a.m. called the "Festal Eucharist" that includes hymns and praise songs.
You may have missed "Passion Sunday" last week, but Trinity Church welcomes worshipers to a sunrise service that takes place at Tougas Farm at 6:30 a.m. on Easter Sunday. If you miss that, or want to partake in both, there is also an Easter service presented by Rev. Cynthia Maybeck later in the morning (10 a.m.) at the church.
Pastor Stephen Georgeson invites everyone to Rice Memorial Baptist Church for Holy Week services, including a Good Friday service on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Easter Sunday services: sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. and Easter Sunday service at 11 a.m.
Northboro Church of Christ holds Sunday worship each week at 10:30 a.m., and you can get the week's bulletin with service details right here.
The First Unitarian Universalist Church holds its weekly 10:30 a.m. service on Sunday.