March 25 - 31, 2024

We invite you to join us as we experience the Passion of Christ in a new and deep way that allows us to encounter that within us which already lives beyond death in renewed intimacy with the Risen Christ.

+ The Holy Week liturgies “arise out of a ground of silence and are intended to be in counterpoint with that silence, not to displace it.

+ The liturgies include chants, readings, and silent meditation.

+ They were not originally conceived for public performance, as stand-alone ‘worship services,’ but as evocations of the more subtle transformative currents moving through Holy Week in a single interwoven tapestry.

 

CONTEMPLATIVE HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE

Download Contemplative Holy Week Liturgy Notes HERE.

Join us for Centering Prayer daily (Monday - Friday) from 5:30pm - 5:55pm PT HERE.

 
 

MONDAY: 6:00pm - 6:30pm PDT
Conversation for Preparing for Liturgies
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TUESDAY: 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Preparatory Ritual of Ablution and Absolution
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WEDNESDAY: 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Anointing Ceremony
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Maundy THURSDAY: 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
Liturgy of the New Commandment
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Good FRIDAY
11:45am – 12:15pm PDT
Holy Remembrance Silent Meditation

 

Good FRIDAY continued
2:30pm – 3:30pm PDT
Silent Meditation

3:30pm – 4:30pm PDT
Solemn Commemoration of the Passion
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6:00pm – 6:30pm PDT
Entombment Liturgy (Vespers)
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Holy SATURDAY: 5:30pm – 7:30pm PDT
The Great Vigil of Easter
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Easter SUNDAY: 6:45am- 7:30am PDT
Sunrise Easter Festival Lauds

 

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ABOUT THE LITURGIES 

+ The liturgies “arise out of a ground of silence and are intended to be in counterpoint with that silence, not to displace it. 

+ The liturgies include chants, readings, and silent meditation. 

+ They were not originally conceived for public performance, as stand-alone ‘worship services,’ but as evocations of the more subtle transformative currents moving through Holy Week in a single interwoven tapestry.

The Tuesday evening ablution ceremony follows the classic monastic practice of creating an “intentional sacramental ‘vestibule’ through which one enters into the Holy Week passage with the heart consecrated and pure.” 

The Wednesday evening anointing ceremony, borrowed from French monastic communities, focuses on Mary Magdalene and restores her central place in the Paschal Mystery. 

The Holy Week liturgies also restore the central place of anointing both within the Holy Week celebration itself and as the quintessential sacrament of all Wisdom practice. 

The liturgies continue with deeply contemplative Triduum services.

2024 Holy Week Presiders 

Chris Ng

Elizabeth Rechter

Colleen Thomas

Ann Willms

Carolyn Ash

MJ Johnson

Krystle Hart

Felicia Murrell

 

Liturgies 2010, authored by: 

The Rev. Ward Bauman, Director of the Episcopal House of Prayer, Collegeville, Minnesota

The Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Ph.D., Episcopal Priest

Darlene Franz, D.M.A. freelance oboist, music educator, chant composer, Seattle, Washington. 

 
 

2024 Contemplative Holy Week Recordings

Contemplative Liturgy Recordings