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The Black Madonna
Teresa of Avila
Hildegard of Bingen
Ascension
Julian of Norwich
2023 Contemplative Holy Week Recordings
Contemplative Holy Week
April 3 - April 9, 2023
2023 CONTEMPLATIVE HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE
MONDAY: 6:00pm - 6:30pm PT
Conversation for Preparing for Liturgies
*recording available to view below
TUESDAY: 6:00pm - 6.45pm PT
Preparatory Ritual of Ablution and Absolution
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WEDNESDAY: 6:00pm - 6:45pm PT
Anointing Ceremony
*recording available to view below
Maundy THURSDAY: 6:00pm - 7:00pm PT
Liturgy of the New Commandment
*recording available to view below
Good FRIDAY
11:45am – 12:15pm PT
Holy Remembrance Silent Meditation
*no recording available
Good FRIDAY continued
2:30pm – 3:30pm PT
Silent Meditation
*no recording available
3:30pm – 4:30pm PT
Solemn Commemoration of the Passion
*recording available to view below
6:00pm – 6:30pm PT
Entombment Liturgy (Vespers)
*recording available to view below
Holy SATURDAY: 5:30pm – 7:30pm PT
The Great Vigil of Easter
*recording available to view below
Easter SUNDAY: 6:30am- 7:15am PT
Sunrise Easter Festival Lauds
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Centering Prayer will be held during Holy Week
5:30pm - 6:00pm PT Monday - Friday
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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.
Cynthia Bourgeault writes: given the right kind of conditions, is it possible to enter Holy Week from the inside rather than the outside—not as a series of commemorative events surrounding the final days of Jesus’ earthly life, but as a way of actually accompanying Jesus on his timeless passage through death, to the very source of life, and back into this world with the unshakable certainty that ‘nothing can separate us from the love of God?’
It is a passage, as Christian mystics have from time immemorial proclaimed, that changed the very foundations of this world. And it is a passage that we ourselves will personally make, carried on the wings of this one Great Passage, when our own human lives reach their fullness of time.”The roots of the word “contemplate” are made up of com, to mark out a space for seeing, and templum, or temple, the presumed space from which one has carved out space.
Most of us associate temples with the large buildings suited to public worship such as cathedrals or mosques. We think of a temple as a place to go in order to pray; however, a temple is a temple not because it is a place, but because God dwells within. Contemplative prayer forms also presume that the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19), a place where the Holy One dwells. It is important to remember that worship and adoration happen from within a temple; they are not directed at the temple itself. Similarly, the body as a temple, is not an object to be worshipped (such as our pop culture might lead us to believe); rather, it is already a place within which the Holy One dwells. When we offer our attention to the presence and action of the Holy One within during Centering Prayer, noticing the “thoughts” that arise gives us an opportunity to clear out space for seeing that they are not the same as God, yet they are within God. All of the thoughts provide the same service—heady concepts, hearty feelings, and yes, even and especially fleshy sensations. In the continuous “not seeing” of God through the rise and fall of so many thoughts, may we each hold more and more empty space for Divine.
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.
You are invited to come and experience Holy Week from the inside as we walk with Christ through the deepest of Christian mysteries, the Passion of Christ, in these six days of ritual and recollection.
2023 Holy Week Presiders
Carolyn Ash
Krystle Hart
Peter Hulit
The Rev. Susan J. Latimer
The Rev. Chris Ng
The Rev. Elizabeth I. Rechter
Colleen Thomas
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.