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Happy (Temporary) Early Spring!
As the holiest week of the Christian Year draws near (wait, wasn't it just Christmas a few weeks ago) the number of special worship opportunities increases dramatically.
Our normal weekday activities continue this week:
Other important info:
Feast Incarnate Tonight
Tonight from 4pm onward your help is always useful with Feast Incarnate, which begins with a Bible Study, with the meal (prepared by St. Davids LC, NE Phila) served at 5PM, followed by Evening Prayer at 6PM.
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Wednesday, March 5, at 6:30PM, Mid-week Lenten worship centers around Nourishing the Soul, beginning with a soup-supper eaten in Holy Silence, followed by readings from Wishful Thinking by Frederick Buechner, Everyday Simplicity: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Growth by Robert Wicks, The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer followed by celebration of eucharist.
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Thursday, March 6th, 10 past noon Mid-day Eucharist commemorating Perpetua, Felicity, and their companions, martyrs at Carthage, died 202. Vibia Perpetua was a noblewoman, and Felicity her slave, who were catechumens at Carthage, northern Africa. They, with four other catechumens, had defied the Roman emperor who had forbidden conversions to Christianity, and were put to death in the amphitheater.
No saints were more uniformly honored in the early Christian era than Saints Perpetua and Felicity. The two women were arrested and imprisoned, along with three other Christians, in Carthage in 203 A.D. Perpetua was 22-year-old noblewoman with a son a few months old; Felicity a slave with a child not yet born. Their crime was defying Emperor Septimus Severus' prohibition of conversions to Christianity.
The account of their martyrdom and courage, The Suffering of Perpetua and Felicity, is one of the earliest historical accounts of Christianity, and one of the most feminist. Read in African churches for the next several centuries, it was treated as nearly equivalent to scripture.
( From http://www.davekopel.org/Religion/perpetua-and-felicity.htm )
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Sunday, March 9th, Fifth Sunday in Lent
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS BEGINS
Worship Assistants Scheduled for Sunday: Verger: Charlie Horn; Crucifer: Carl Beck: Deacon: Fred Quivik; Sub-deacon: Janah Szewczyk; Lector: Helen Corby; Usher: Bobbie Burnett; Greeter: Dorothy Linderman; Communion Assistant: Kristen Myer; Prayer Leader: Alexa Epstein: Cantor: Drew Cardinale; Coffee Hour: Fred and Melinda Quivik
Music for this Sunday
Great Litany: Hymn #238
Psalm 130
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Out òf the depths
I cry to yòu, O LORD;
O LORD, hèar my voice!
Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my sùpplication.
If you were to keep watch òver sins,
O LORD, whò could stand?
Yet with you ìs forgiveness,
in order that you mày be feared.
ANTIPHON
I wait for you, O LORD; my soul waits;
in your word ìs my hope.
My soul waits for the Lord more than those who keep watch fòr the morning,
more than those who keep watch fòr the morning.
O Israel, wait for the LORD, for with the LORD there is stèadfast love;
with the LORD there is plen- tèous redemption.
For the LORD shall rèdeem Israel
from àll their sins.
ANTIPHON
Hymn of the Day: ELW 750: “Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart”
Offertory Anthem: “Aus tiefer Not” – Johann Eccard (1553-1611)
Text: Psalm 130, translated by Martin Luther, 1524
From deep affliction I cry out to you, Lord God, hear my call; incline your merciful ear here to me and be open to my prayer! For if you want to look at this,
what sin and injustice is done, who can, Lord, remain before you?
Communion Hymn: ELW 485: “I am the Bread of Life”
The verses will be sung by the cantor, the congregation joining in the REFRAIN.
Communion Chant: Adoramus Te, Chrsite
Sending Hymn: ELW 758: “You are the way”
Postlude: Fughetta on “Aus Tiefer Not” – J.S. Bach
4:30PM Brandywine Peace Community
ANTI-WAR FEST...Brandywine Peace Community
Potluck Supper/Program, 4:30PM, University Lutheran Church,
3637 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA
On March 20, 2003, the day after the U.S. began the bombardment
and invasion of Iraq, 107 people were arrested for blockading the
Phila. Federal Building complex, in the single largest act of
nonviolent civil disobedience in the history of the Philadelphia area
as part of the Brandywine Peace Community sponsored Iraq Pledge
of Resistance Campaign.
Hard to fathom that five years have passed, and all that has
happened and that continues: Protests, Arrests, Court, Jail, the
Dover - DC Trail of Mourning & Truth, the Declaration of Peace,
Continued Resistance at Lockheed Martin, a New Congress (of
course, that didn't act all that differently), Military Families Speak
Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War, the Grannies Peace Brigades,
and so much more that you did!
We've yet to stop the war and occupation, but people continue to
protest and to resist, continue to stand-up and sit-down, continue to
do democracy (which is only in the doing) and to hope, wherein lies
every act of making peace. So as we approach the anniversary of
five years of war, in which we remember the hundreds and
hundreds of thousands dead, maimed, made refugee, let us also
hope and strengthen each other in celebration of resistance and
other possiblities for peace.
Join with other Voices of Resistance, Hope, & Peace next Sunday
(i.e.: Daylight Savings Time Begins) at the Brandywine Peace
Community potluck supper/program for an ANTI-WAR FEST to
celebrate 5 years of war resistance as we plan for another
anniversary in protest and resistance to the war.
ANTI-WAR FEST
Voices of Resistance, Hope, & Peace
5 Years of War, 5 Years of War Resistance
SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 4:30PM
Brandywine Peace Community Potluck Supper*/Program
University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA
4:30PM - Potluck Supper (*bring main dish, salad, or dessert to
share)
5:30 - Anti-War Fest Celebrating 5 Year of War Resistance,
featuring:
*TOM MULLIAN ("Six Strings Against the War") & FRIENDS;
*R.W. Dennen, Bob Small, and Laurie Pollack ("Peace Walk"), of
Poets & Prophets, the Delaware Valley's oldest continuing poetry
reading series.
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Monday, March 10th, NO STUDENT GATHERING (That means we will not gather that night, so please don't come looking for us)
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Tuesday, March 11th, Feast Incarnate with a meal prepared by Christ Lutheran , Upper Darby (extra help alert)
Chrsit Lutheran has faithfully prepared meals for Feast Incarnate from almost the beginning of the program in 1988 (yes that's right, this year will be the 20th anniversary)
Denise, their coordinator has decided it was time to return to college (both her children are now in college) and has classes on Tuesday Evenings at 6PM. She and her husband bring the food, and set things up before she goes to class. By coming and helping on the evenings when they prepare the food, not only are you helping with UniLu's Social Ministry, but also our Campus Ministry. So if you have an extra hour or so that night, we'd love to have you join us.
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Holy Week Clean-Up Day Saturday, March 15th 10AM until we're finished
Janah Szewczyk, Czarina of Property at UniLu, encourages you all to come to church on Saturday, March 15, to help with the preparations for Holy Week. Come for an hour, or more. Exciting projects include:
? Prepare Palms-
? Pick up litter around church, International House, & broken glass in courtyard
? Clean up leaves on parking lot & Courtyard
? Wipe down all horizontal surfaces in Narthex.
? Polish Brass Plates on door to sanctuary
? Fold Bulletins for Sunday-
? Polish Silver Communion Vessels
? Replace burned out light bulbs in Sanctuary, Narthex, Exit Lights, 2nd floor hall
? Clean out kitchen refrigerator
? Clean Pascal Candle Holder
? Change Processional Banners, Hosanna Banner and Altar Paraments
? Clean up votives and candlesticks.
? Check that flyers in hallways are up to date
? Clean bottoms of windows in narthex.
? Remove old wax from torch standards and reinstall (Saturday 3-26)
? Clean Baptismal Font (Anita’s in charge of)
? Fix broken kneelers
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The Passion of our Lord (and the Cry of the Whole Congregation) March 16th (Incense Alert)
We will begin with a procession with Palms out on 37th street Walk near the steps to International House's courtyard. (Remember to wear warm clothes-we will be outside 10-15 minutes that morning. We will then process into church for the rest of the liturgy.
" Liturgy means 'the work of the people.' Worship in the Lutheran tradition implies participation and effort on the part of the worshipping community. Walter Wangerin, Jr. has captured the essence of such participation in The Cry of the Whole Congregation"
Many congregations have experienced the Passion of Christ in a vivid and palpable way through the use of this participatory drama. Its movement and its simplicity draw the worshipper into the very midst of the Passion of Christ. There is no audience. All are participants in the Passion Event. "
The drama's "purpose is to allow each worshipper suddenly to discover (pitifully, intensely, truly to discover) his own rootedness in the drama which is Christ's-so that the Passion Story may no longer be mere story for observance, analysis, learning, or history; so that it embrace the worshipper, name him, and become his own story indeed: the shape of his being."
In addition to readers, the drama will also involve a drummer, and a dancer. The dancer will be Sister Ramona Cecille of the Deaconess Community .
(Incense Alert)
The outdoor portion of our worship that morning will include the use of incense.
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From Thursday of Holy Week (Maundy Thursday) through the Great Easter Vigil is known as the Triduum, or Three Days. Our liturgy is one continuous "work of the people," culminating in the Feast of the Resurrection celebrated as the climax of the Easter Vigil, when the tomb is found empty and our joyous response is limitless.
Maundy Thursday, March 20, 7PM Joint Service with the parish of St. Marys, Hamilton Village. (Incense Alert)
Our celebration of our Lord's Last Supper on Maundy Thursday begins at University Lutheran at 7PM, with Confession and Forgiveness at the Font, after which we move in to the sanctuary for the service of the Word, including the response to the readings of Jesus's new commandment (mandatum,from which Maundy comes) As a sign of our calling to follow Jesus' example of humility and service, we wash one another's feet as Jesus washed the disciple's feet.
After the prayer of the people, we will form a procession outside the church and move across campus to St. Marys to gather around the table for Lord's Supper. After the liturgy concludes, we will process back to UniLu.
(Incense Alert)
The outdoor portion of our worship that evening will include the use of incense.
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Good Friday, 10 past Noon:Stations of the Cross Procession on Campus
Each year on Good Friday we process to several spots on campus and offer prayers for justice, wholeness, advocacy, assistance, and finally for peace. We sing verses of the STABAT MATER (At the Cross, her Station Keeping) the hymn which is universally used a part of Stations of the Cross Liturgies. The procession takes approximately 40 minutes, and covers roughly 1/2 mile through campus. It is an incredibly powerful public witness of the church's remembrance of Christ's suffering and our redemption through the cross.
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Good Friday, Evening Service, 7PM when the church gathers to hear again the Passion story of Jesus' suffering and death. We pray for the life of the world, and we recite again the familiar Psalms of the suffering servant. We meditate on the life-giving cross, and offer thanksgiving for the wood of tree on which our Salvation suffered and died. It is a very personal service, one of quiet meditation in a darkened church. By UniLu tradition, the organ is silent from Thursday night until the Easter Vigil, so all chants and songs are sung without accompaniment.
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Great Vigil of Easter, March 22, 10PM, followed by champagne reception (Incense Alert)
The Easter Vigil Celebration on Saturday night is the very foundation of our Christian faith, the crowning moment of the church's year. The liturgy's Easter proclamation announces in words written more than 1500 years ago, "This is the night in which all who believe in Christ are rescued from evil and the gloom of sin, are renewed in grace, and are restored to holiness."
The service begins beside a small fire outside the church, where we hear the familiar, historic stories of creation and, moving to the baptismal font, of Noah and the flood. By the light of the Paschal candle, we move into the dark sanctuary to hear the other stories of God's love and salvation.
Returning to the font, we renew our baptismal promises, receive new members into the church, and baptize candidates who have been preparing to become Christians throughout the Lenten season.
Then, as the pastor knocks on the door of the tomb/sanctuary, proclaiming "Christ is Risen," we celebrate the first Mass of the Resurrection. Singing a hymn of praise, once again we enter God's temple, hear the story of the Resurrection, and celebrate the Eucharist. We rejoice and celebrate once more, for the fast is over; Christ is risen from the dead.
(Incense Alert)
Both the outdoor portion and indoor portion of the of the Easter Vigil will include the use of incense.
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Easter Sunday, March 23, 9AM Easter Breakfast, 10:30am Festival Mass of the Resurrection of our Lord (Incense Alert)
The celebration continues with the Festival of the Resurrection the next morning, with special music, choirs and instruments of praise, lilies and hyacinths, and much rejoicing.
A breakfast has traditionally been served beginning at 9AM. There is no Adult Forum that morning. The service includes singing G.F. Handel's "Halleluia" from The Messiah as part of the postlude. All are invited to join in singing the work.
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Palm Sunday/Easter Memorials and Honorariums
This Easter we expanded the way in which you can honor or memorialize someone at Holy Week and Easter. You may make a donation to a fund for Palms for Palm Sunday; for flowers for the church at the Vigil/Feast of the Resurrection; or, you may make a donation to the UniLu Triduum Music Fund. Donations may be in any amount. We will no longer "sell" specific flower memorials (in the past, the office has had to guess 6 weeks in advance how many of what size and color folks want) This year all memorials/ honorariums will be listed in the bulletin at those two worship services. All money designated toward music will help defray the costs of instrumentalists and soloists over the Triduum. All money designated for flowers will be used to purchase potted spring flowers for the Sanctuary and Narthex. To be listed in the bulletins, donations (or pledges) must be received in the office no later than Tuesday, March 18. (Contributions to the Eco Palm Fund should be received by 3-12)
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Prayer Concerns
Please keep Paul Scaer in your thoughts and prayers. He has just received a diagnosis of having a large mass in the lower intestine. We will keep you informed as we get more information.
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Thanks so much if you've persevered and made it this far,
Shalom, salaam, peace,
Fred
Fred Wolfe
Interim Coordinator for Campus Ministry
University Lutheran Church of the Incarnation
Chestnut Street at 37th Street Walk
215.387.2885
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As the holiest week of the Christian Year draws near (wait, wasn't it just Christmas a few weeks ago) the number of special worship opportunities increases dramatically.
Our normal weekday activities continue this week:
- Tonight from 4pm onward your help is always useful with Feast Incarnate, which begins with a Bible Study, with the meal (prepared by St. Davids LC, NE Phila) served at 5PM, followed by Evening Prayer at 6PM.
- Wednesday, March 5, at 6:30PM, Mid-week Lenten worship centers around Nourishing the Soul
- Thursday, March 6, Mid-day Eucharist commemorating Perpetua, Felicity, and their companions.
- Sunday, March 9th, Fifth Sunday in Lent,
- DAYLIGHT SAVINGS BEGINS 9AM Choir,
9:30 Adult Forum, 10:30 Celebration of Holy Communion, 12:30 G.O. Group,
4:30PM Brandywine Peace Community
- Monday, March 10th, NO STUDENT GATHERING (That means we will not gather that night)
- Tuesday, March 11th, Feast Incarnate with a meal prepared by Christ Lutheran, Upper Darby (extra help alert)
Looking further Ahead:
- Holy Week Clean-Up Day Saturday, March 15th
- The Passion of our Lord (and the Cry of the Whole Congregation) March 16th (Incense Alert)
- Maundy Thursday, March 20, 7PM Joint Service with the parish of St. Marys, Hamilton Village. (Incense Alert)
- Good Friday, March 21, 10 past noon, Procession of Stations of the Cross on Campus
- Good Friday, March 21, 7PM Traditional Good Friday Tennebrae Liturgy with Adoration of the Cross.
- Great Vigil of Easter, March 22, 10PM, followed by champagne reception (Incense Alert)
- Easter Sunday, March 23, 9AM Easter Breakfast, 10:30am Festival Mass of the Resurrection of our Lord (Incense Alert)
Other important info:
- Palm Sunday/Easter Memorials and Honorariums
- Paul Scaer
Feast Incarnate Tonight
Tonight from 4pm onward your help is always useful with Feast Incarnate, which begins with a Bible Study, with the meal (prepared by St. Davids LC, NE Phila) served at 5PM, followed by Evening Prayer at 6PM.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Wednesday, March 5, at 6:30PM, Mid-week Lenten worship centers around Nourishing the Soul, beginning with a soup-supper eaten in Holy Silence, followed by readings from Wishful Thinking by Frederick Buechner, Everyday Simplicity: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Growth by Robert Wicks, The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer followed by celebration of eucharist.
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Thursday, March 6th, 10 past noon Mid-day Eucharist commemorating Perpetua, Felicity, and their companions, martyrs at Carthage, died 202. Vibia Perpetua was a noblewoman, and Felicity her slave, who were catechumens at Carthage, northern Africa. They, with four other catechumens, had defied the Roman emperor who had forbidden conversions to Christianity, and were put to death in the amphitheater.
No saints were more uniformly honored in the early Christian era than Saints Perpetua and Felicity. The two women were arrested and imprisoned, along with three other Christians, in Carthage in 203 A.D. Perpetua was 22-year-old noblewoman with a son a few months old; Felicity a slave with a child not yet born. Their crime was defying Emperor Septimus Severus' prohibition of conversions to Christianity.
The account of their martyrdom and courage, The Suffering of Perpetua and Felicity, is one of the earliest historical accounts of Christianity, and one of the most feminist. Read in African churches for the next several centuries, it was treated as nearly equivalent to scripture.
( From http://www.davekopel.org/Religion/perpetua-and-felicity.htm )
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Sunday, March 9th, Fifth Sunday in Lent
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS BEGINS
Worship Assistants Scheduled for Sunday: Verger: Charlie Horn; Crucifer: Carl Beck: Deacon: Fred Quivik; Sub-deacon: Janah Szewczyk; Lector: Helen Corby; Usher: Bobbie Burnett; Greeter: Dorothy Linderman; Communion Assistant: Kristen Myer; Prayer Leader: Alexa Epstein: Cantor: Drew Cardinale; Coffee Hour: Fred and Melinda Quivik
Music for this Sunday
Great Litany: Hymn #238
Psalm 130
Out òf the depths
I cry to yòu, O LORD;
O LORD, hèar my voice!
Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my sùpplication.
If you were to keep watch òver sins,
O LORD, whò could stand?
Yet with you ìs forgiveness,
in order that you mày be feared.
ANTIPHON
I wait for you, O LORD; my soul waits;
in your word ìs my hope.
My soul waits for the Lord more than those who keep watch fòr the morning,
more than those who keep watch fòr the morning.
O Israel, wait for the LORD, for with the LORD there is stèadfast love;
with the LORD there is plen- tèous redemption.
For the LORD shall rèdeem Israel
from àll their sins.
ANTIPHON
Hymn of the Day: ELW 750: “Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart”
Offertory Anthem: “Aus tiefer Not” – Johann Eccard (1553-1611)
Text: Psalm 130, translated by Martin Luther, 1524
From deep affliction I cry out to you, Lord God, hear my call; incline your merciful ear here to me and be open to my prayer! For if you want to look at this,
what sin and injustice is done, who can, Lord, remain before you?
Communion Hymn: ELW 485: “I am the Bread of Life”
The verses will be sung by the cantor, the congregation joining in the REFRAIN.
Communion Chant: Adoramus Te, Chrsite
Sending Hymn: ELW 758: “You are the way”
Postlude: Fughetta on “Aus Tiefer Not” – J.S. Bach
4:30PM Brandywine Peace Community
ANTI-WAR FEST...Brandywine Peace Community
Potluck Supper/Program, 4:30PM, University Lutheran Church,
3637 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA
On March 20, 2003, the day after the U.S. began the bombardment
and invasion of Iraq, 107 people were arrested for blockading the
Phila. Federal Building complex, in the single largest act of
nonviolent civil disobedience in the history of the Philadelphia area
as part of the Brandywine Peace Community sponsored Iraq Pledge
of Resistance Campaign.
Hard to fathom that five years have passed, and all that has
happened and that continues: Protests, Arrests, Court, Jail, the
Dover - DC Trail of Mourning & Truth, the Declaration of Peace,
Continued Resistance at Lockheed Martin, a New Congress (of
course, that didn't act all that differently), Military Families Speak
Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War, the Grannies Peace Brigades,
and so much more that you did!
We've yet to stop the war and occupation, but people continue to
protest and to resist, continue to stand-up and sit-down, continue to
do democracy (which is only in the doing) and to hope, wherein lies
every act of making peace. So as we approach the anniversary of
five years of war, in which we remember the hundreds and
hundreds of thousands dead, maimed, made refugee, let us also
hope and strengthen each other in celebration of resistance and
other possiblities for peace.
Join with other Voices of Resistance, Hope, & Peace next Sunday
(i.e.: Daylight Savings Time Begins) at the Brandywine Peace
Community potluck supper/program for an ANTI-WAR FEST to
celebrate 5 years of war resistance as we plan for another
anniversary in protest and resistance to the war.
ANTI-WAR FEST
Voices of Resistance, Hope, & Peace
5 Years of War, 5 Years of War Resistance
SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 4:30PM
Brandywine Peace Community Potluck Supper*/Program
University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA
4:30PM - Potluck Supper (*bring main dish, salad, or dessert to
share)
5:30 - Anti-War Fest Celebrating 5 Year of War Resistance,
featuring:
*TOM MULLIAN ("Six Strings Against the War") & FRIENDS;
*R.W. Dennen, Bob Small, and Laurie Pollack ("Peace Walk"), of
Poets & Prophets, the Delaware Valley's oldest continuing poetry
reading series.
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Monday, March 10th, NO STUDENT GATHERING (That means we will not gather that night, so please don't come looking for us)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Tuesday, March 11th, Feast Incarnate with a meal prepared by Christ Lutheran , Upper Darby (extra help alert)
Chrsit Lutheran has faithfully prepared meals for Feast Incarnate from almost the beginning of the program in 1988 (yes that's right, this year will be the 20th anniversary)
Denise, their coordinator has decided it was time to return to college (both her children are now in college) and has classes on Tuesday Evenings at 6PM. She and her husband bring the food, and set things up before she goes to class. By coming and helping on the evenings when they prepare the food, not only are you helping with UniLu's Social Ministry, but also our Campus Ministry. So if you have an extra hour or so that night, we'd love to have you join us.
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Holy Week Clean-Up Day Saturday, March 15th 10AM until we're finished
Janah Szewczyk, Czarina of Property at UniLu, encourages you all to come to church on Saturday, March 15, to help with the preparations for Holy Week. Come for an hour, or more. Exciting projects include:
? Prepare Palms-
? Pick up litter around church, International House, & broken glass in courtyard
? Clean up leaves on parking lot & Courtyard
? Wipe down all horizontal surfaces in Narthex.
? Polish Brass Plates on door to sanctuary
? Fold Bulletins for Sunday-
? Polish Silver Communion Vessels
? Replace burned out light bulbs in Sanctuary, Narthex, Exit Lights, 2nd floor hall
? Clean out kitchen refrigerator
? Clean Pascal Candle Holder
? Change Processional Banners, Hosanna Banner and Altar Paraments
? Clean up votives and candlesticks.
? Check that flyers in hallways are up to date
? Clean bottoms of windows in narthex.
? Remove old wax from torch standards and reinstall (Saturday 3-26)
? Clean Baptismal Font (Anita’s in charge of)
? Fix broken kneelers
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The Passion of our Lord (and the Cry of the Whole Congregation) March 16th (Incense Alert)
We will begin with a procession with Palms out on 37th street Walk near the steps to International House's courtyard. (Remember to wear warm clothes-we will be outside 10-15 minutes that morning. We will then process into church for the rest of the liturgy.
" Liturgy means 'the work of the people.' Worship in the Lutheran tradition implies participation and effort on the part of the worshipping community. Walter Wangerin, Jr. has captured the essence of such participation in The Cry of the Whole Congregation"
Many congregations have experienced the Passion of Christ in a vivid and palpable way through the use of this participatory drama. Its movement and its simplicity draw the worshipper into the very midst of the Passion of Christ. There is no audience. All are participants in the Passion Event. "
The drama's "purpose is to allow each worshipper suddenly to discover (pitifully, intensely, truly to discover) his own rootedness in the drama which is Christ's-so that the Passion Story may no longer be mere story for observance, analysis, learning, or history; so that it embrace the worshipper, name him, and become his own story indeed: the shape of his being."
In addition to readers, the drama will also involve a drummer, and a dancer. The dancer will be Sister Ramona Cecille of the Deaconess Community .
(Incense Alert)
The outdoor portion of our worship that morning will include the use of incense.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From Thursday of Holy Week (Maundy Thursday) through the Great Easter Vigil is known as the Triduum, or Three Days. Our liturgy is one continuous "work of the people," culminating in the Feast of the Resurrection celebrated as the climax of the Easter Vigil, when the tomb is found empty and our joyous response is limitless.
Maundy Thursday, March 20, 7PM Joint Service with the parish of St. Marys, Hamilton Village. (Incense Alert)
Our celebration of our Lord's Last Supper on Maundy Thursday begins at University Lutheran at 7PM, with Confession and Forgiveness at the Font, after which we move in to the sanctuary for the service of the Word, including the response to the readings of Jesus's new commandment (mandatum,from which Maundy comes) As a sign of our calling to follow Jesus' example of humility and service, we wash one another's feet as Jesus washed the disciple's feet.
After the prayer of the people, we will form a procession outside the church and move across campus to St. Marys to gather around the table for Lord's Supper. After the liturgy concludes, we will process back to UniLu.
(Incense Alert)
The outdoor portion of our worship that evening will include the use of incense.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Good Friday, 10 past Noon:Stations of the Cross Procession on Campus
Each year on Good Friday we process to several spots on campus and offer prayers for justice, wholeness, advocacy, assistance, and finally for peace. We sing verses of the STABAT MATER (At the Cross, her Station Keeping) the hymn which is universally used a part of Stations of the Cross Liturgies. The procession takes approximately 40 minutes, and covers roughly 1/2 mile through campus. It is an incredibly powerful public witness of the church's remembrance of Christ's suffering and our redemption through the cross.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Good Friday, Evening Service, 7PM when the church gathers to hear again the Passion story of Jesus' suffering and death. We pray for the life of the world, and we recite again the familiar Psalms of the suffering servant. We meditate on the life-giving cross, and offer thanksgiving for the wood of tree on which our Salvation suffered and died. It is a very personal service, one of quiet meditation in a darkened church. By UniLu tradition, the organ is silent from Thursday night until the Easter Vigil, so all chants and songs are sung without accompaniment.
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Great Vigil of Easter, March 22, 10PM, followed by champagne reception (Incense Alert)
The Easter Vigil Celebration on Saturday night is the very foundation of our Christian faith, the crowning moment of the church's year. The liturgy's Easter proclamation announces in words written more than 1500 years ago, "This is the night in which all who believe in Christ are rescued from evil and the gloom of sin, are renewed in grace, and are restored to holiness."
The service begins beside a small fire outside the church, where we hear the familiar, historic stories of creation and, moving to the baptismal font, of Noah and the flood. By the light of the Paschal candle, we move into the dark sanctuary to hear the other stories of God's love and salvation.
Returning to the font, we renew our baptismal promises, receive new members into the church, and baptize candidates who have been preparing to become Christians throughout the Lenten season.
Then, as the pastor knocks on the door of the tomb/sanctuary, proclaiming "Christ is Risen," we celebrate the first Mass of the Resurrection. Singing a hymn of praise, once again we enter God's temple, hear the story of the Resurrection, and celebrate the Eucharist. We rejoice and celebrate once more, for the fast is over; Christ is risen from the dead.
(Incense Alert)
Both the outdoor portion and indoor portion of the of the Easter Vigil will include the use of incense.
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Easter Sunday, March 23, 9AM Easter Breakfast, 10:30am Festival Mass of the Resurrection of our Lord (Incense Alert)
The celebration continues with the Festival of the Resurrection the next morning, with special music, choirs and instruments of praise, lilies and hyacinths, and much rejoicing.
A breakfast has traditionally been served beginning at 9AM. There is no Adult Forum that morning. The service includes singing G.F. Handel's "Halleluia" from The Messiah as part of the postlude. All are invited to join in singing the work.
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Palm Sunday/Easter Memorials and Honorariums
This Easter we expanded the way in which you can honor or memorialize someone at Holy Week and Easter. You may make a donation to a fund for Palms for Palm Sunday; for flowers for the church at the Vigil/Feast of the Resurrection; or, you may make a donation to the UniLu Triduum Music Fund. Donations may be in any amount. We will no longer "sell" specific flower memorials (in the past, the office has had to guess 6 weeks in advance how many of what size and color folks want) This year all memorials/ honorariums will be listed in the bulletin at those two worship services. All money designated toward music will help defray the costs of instrumentalists and soloists over the Triduum. All money designated for flowers will be used to purchase potted spring flowers for the Sanctuary and Narthex. To be listed in the bulletins, donations (or pledges) must be received in the office no later than Tuesday, March 18. (Contributions to the Eco Palm Fund should be received by 3-12)
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Prayer Concerns
Please keep Paul Scaer in your thoughts and prayers. He has just received a diagnosis of having a large mass in the lower intestine. We will keep you informed as we get more information.
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Thanks so much if you've persevered and made it this far,
Shalom, salaam, peace,
Fred
Fred Wolfe
Interim Coordinator for Campus Ministry
University Lutheran Church of the Incarnation
Chestnut Street at 37th Street Walk
215.387.2885
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