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Slightly Frantic Liturgy 

May 14, 2020 By Samantha Vincent-Alexander 12 Comments

When I worked with youth, one of my favorite events was an agape meal. It started as a Seder and I eventually started calling it “What Would Jesus Eat” which I found hilarious.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, psalm, young children

Maundy Thursday: The At Home Edition

April 9, 2020 By Meaghan Brower 4 Comments

As this article is being written, I am on the 20th day being home with my husband, two small children, and my mother.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: coronavirus, faith at home, foot washing, Maundy Thursday, young children

Preparing for Holy Week at Home

April 2, 2020 By Allison Sandlin Liles 6 Comments

Palm Sunday will be here in just a few short days and I am not ready for it. I’m not ready for Holy Week as a priest, as a parent, or as an individual person trying to follow Christ. And yet, it’s coming.

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Filed Under: Easter, Liturgical Year, Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Easter Vigil, Good Friday, Holy Week, Illustrated Children's Ministry, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday, palms, young children

Maundy Thursday: Vulnerability

April 18, 2019 By Dorian Del Priore Leave a Comment

Maundy Thursday offers a bookend of touch to Ash Wednesday: a touch on the forehead with ashes juxtaposed with the touch of hands, soap, and water on feet. These are fleeting moments of tenderness, thin spaces of vulnerability, connection.

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: foot washing, Maundy Thursday, vulnerability

Preparing Children for the Passion

April 11, 2019 By Melody Wilson Shobe Leave a Comment

It can be difficult for our children to the stories of Holy Week. Here are some tips for preparing children for the Passion.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Children in church, death, Easter, Good Friday, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday, Passion, resurrection

As a recovering perfectionist, I know: there’s no perfect way to “do” Holy Week.

March 21, 2018 By Ann Benton Fraser 4 Comments

This Holy Week, God will be at work in us in ways we cannot yet ask or imagine.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: children, Children in church, Easter, Faith, Family, Good Friday, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday

Our Holy Week family traditions vary from year to year.

March 17, 2018 By Emily Watkins Leave a Comment

Hope is the word I’m clinging to during this Lent.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Children in church, Easter, Family, Good Friday, Holy Week, Jesus, Lent, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday

Faith at Home – Planning Ahead to March

February 25, 2018 By Nurya Love Parish 1 Comment

March brings Lent to a close, which means it’s time to plan the Easter basket and figure out Holy Week at home.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: children's books, Easter, Good Friday, Holy Week, Lent, Maundy Thursday

Judas was integral to the Last Supper. But what was his fate?

April 13, 2017 By Marcus Halley 6 Comments

Is even Judas included in the love of God?

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Liturgical Year Tagged With: David Henson, Holy Week, Judas, Last Supper, Maundy Thursday, St. Paul

Observing Maundy Thursday

March 24, 2016 By Nurya Love Parish 4 Comments

It’s astonishing to ponder the many generations which have passed down the story of Christ’s institution of the Holy Communion, His betrayal at the hands […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, parenting, Triduum

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