Archives for April 2019

Paschal Triduum

Maundy Thursday | 7:00pm – Service of Confession / Divine Service. After celebrating the Lord’s Supper, the altar is stripped of its vestments and appointments, recalling the Lord’s abandonment in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Good Friday | 7:00pm – Tenebrae Vespers. A solemn service of adoration of Jesus the Lamb of God as He offers up his life.

Holy Saturday | 7:00pm – Easter Vigil Service. The Easter Alleluia sounds forth for the first time in the midst of the dark night and we are carried in spirit to Christ’s tomb where the Creator’s Sabbath rest was transformed into a new Day and Age, the Day of the Lord.

Easter Sunday

Easter Breakfast | 8:00am. Join us for a meal served by our confirmation class and their families.

Easter Sunday | 9:00am – Easter Festival Divine Service. With Easter, Christ fulfills the Old Testament Passover, proving God’s anger has passed over us because of His sacrificial death as the Lamb of God.  For this reason, it is most fitting to celebrate with the feast that Christ Himself instituted to commemorate His death and resurrection until He comes (1 Cor. 11:26): Holy Communion.

April 20, 7:00pm (ending around 8:30pm)

Joint service at Faith with Resurrection, Verona

Faith Lutheran Church will be premiering a new cymbelstern on April 20 during our first annual Easter Vigil Service.  A cymbelstern is a “cymbal star” for the organ.  The cymbelstern is an old instrument, and unusual to have today.  It was common in Germany throughout the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

The service will be an Easter Vigil Service. 

This is an ancient (c. 350 A.D.) tradition which connects our Baptism to Jesus’ Resurrection. The service, which is unlike any other in the church, begins outside with a fire. Believers then process into the darkened sanctuary with candles, as the lights are gradually illumined, when finally the feast of the Lamb, the Lord’s Supper, is celebrated and the Alleluias are sung! Join us as we await the dawn of Easter!

When the Alleluias are sung for the first time, the cymbelstern will sound. 

The service begins at 7:00pm on Saturday, April 20 (Holy Saturday) outside the church on the Washington St. side of the building.