Holy Week 2022

Friends,

It’s Holy Week. It’s a wild, intense week, and we full encourage you to jump into as much as you possibly can. Below is a list of the services with the broader All Souls community for Holy Week. Note that our very own Kim Taylor will be playing at the 6p Maundy Thursday Agape Meal––RSVP for that dinner here.

• Maundy Thursday

  • 6p Agape Meal (RSVP here)

  • 7:30p Eucharist w/foot washing (& live streamed)

  • 9p all night vigil

• Good Friday

  • 12-3p Reflective Drop-in Service

  • 7:30p Eucharist (& live streamed)

• Holy Saturday

  • 9:30a Solemn Liturgy

• the Great Vigil of Easter

  • 8p (outdoors for the first part, and then indoors) w/drinks & snacks to follow. This service is LONG but so so worth attending. (& live streamed)

• Easter Sunday

  • 5p in the Parish Hall at All Souls

It’s a lot, yes, but there is so much depth gained in entering this story this week and I hope you’re able to do so. So, a poem/prayer for this Holy Week:

Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh

Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Pouring redemption for me, that I do
The will of God, wallow in the habitual, the banal,
Grow with nature again as before I grew.
The bright stick trapped, the breeze adding a third
Party to the couple kissing on an old seat,
And a bird gathering materials for the nest for the Word
Eloquently new and abandoned to its delirious beat.
O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib
To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech
For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven
From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.

–The Sunday Night Service Crew