Join us for the Stations of the Cross at 12:00 noon on Good Friday, March 29, 2013. Immediately after at 12:30 p.m. we will offer the Good Friday liturgy of Adoration of the Cross and Liturgy of the Presanctified (Communion…
Continue ReadingAlmighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and…
Continue ReadingJoin us for the observance of Maundy Thursday at 7 p.m., March 28, 2013. Our celebration begins with the Holy Eucharist at which the Rev. Dcn. Lisa O’Rear-Lassen of St. Patrick’s, Brunswick, will preach, and will continue with an Agape…
Continue ReadingAlmighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives…
Continue ReadingLord God, whose blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time, confident of the glory that shall be revealed;…
Continue ReadingO God, by the passion of your blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of life: Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we may gladly suffer shame…
Continue ReadingAlmighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none…
Continue ReadingCollect at the Liturgy of the Palms: “Assist us mercifully with your help, O Lord God of our salvation, that we may enter with joy upon the contemplation of those mighty acts, whereby you have given us life and immortality;…
Continue ReadingAlmighty God, whose will it is to be glorified in your saints, and who raised up your servant Gregory the Illuminator to be a light in the world, and to preach the Gospel to the people of Armenia: Shine, we…
Continue ReadingAlmighty and everlasting God, the source and perfection of all virtues, you inspired your servant James De Koven to do what is right and to preach what is true: Grant that all ministers and stewards of your mysteries may impart…
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