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Holy Week 2021 mark’s episcopal , palo alto Dear People of God, Holy Week 2021 For centuries, have been tracing the last days of , from his Holy Week holds within it our entire human story, all of the hope, tragedy, triumphant entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, to his last meal and love, and joy that shapes our days. It shows us the horrors of evil, violence, his washing the feet of his friends at Passover, to his trial and execution on injustice, and death. It reveals to us the depths of Christ’s self-giving love. It Good Friday, to his glorious resurrection on . We walk with Christ epitomizes the power of God to defeat injustice, conquer death, and renew and with Christians across time and physical distance to journey from life to all things. However your Lent has gone, wherever you find yourself at this death and into new life. This year, we are feeling the physical separation in an time, walk into Holy Week trusting in the one who answers our cries. Join extremely acute way. Through these services, we remember that we remain your heart to the story of the cross, the tomb, and the resurrection, because One Body in our One Lord. the author and finisher of this sacred story is the Christ who loves you, and invites you to participate in the enlivening of all things. Indeed God has Consider using this devotional and the St. Mark’s labyrinth, courtyards and come, God has restored, and God will show us God’s salvation. gardens for contemplative walk. - Debie Thomas In these pages, you will find poetry, , and liturgies, including Gregory Orr • for Maundy Thursday: This is what was bequeathed us - a service for celebrating an Agapé meal with foot (or hand) washing, and an invitation to write a letter to another parishioner This is what was bequeathed us: - links to Dan Clandenin speaking to desert spirituality, and a prayerful This earth the beloved left stripping of the St. Mark’s altar And, leaving, • for Good Friday Left to us. - a link to our noon service with reflections by St. Mark’s parishioners - a traditional contemplative service with readings and No other world • for Easter, an invitation to our 10am service, both livestreamed and But this one: outdoors in person, with the Rev. Matthew McDermott preaching Willows and the river And the factory It is our hope that in these Holy Week services we will all find ways to With its black smokestacks. connect, to enter into some stillness, to find both solace and hope, and to know ourselves buried with Christ in his death and risen with Christ into life No other shore, only this bank eternal. On which the living gather.

Deep peace, No meaning but what we find here. Rev. Matthew McDermott and Rev. Nikky Wood No purpose but what we make. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Holy Week 2021 That, and the beloved’s clear instructions: Turn me into song; sing me awake.

See saint-marks.com for a digital version of this booklet with live links.

2 3 the untouchables. Feed the hungry. Welcome the child. Release the captive. April 1, 2021 Maundy Thursday Devotion Forgive the sinner. Confront the oppressor. Comfort the oppressed. Wash My body, my blood each other’s feet. Hold each other close. Tell each other the truth. And guide each other home.

Perhaps the World Ends Here Joy Harjo

The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.

The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on.

We chase chickens or dogs away from it. Babies teethe at the corners. They scrape their knees under it.

It is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be human. We make men at it, we make women. Collect of the Day: Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted At this table we gossip, recall enemies and the ghosts of lovers. the of his Body and Blood; mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Christ our Lord, who in these holy Our dreams drink coffee with us as they put their arms around our children. mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who now lives and reigns with They laugh with us at our poor falling-down selves and as we put ourselves you and the , one God, for ever and ever. Amen. back together once again at the table.

Reflection: On this holy night, we remember the radical welcome and This table has been a house in the rain, an umbrella in the sun. hospitality of Jesus at his table with his friends. We remember his deep humility and tenderness as he washed his disciples’ feet. And we remember Wars have begun and ended at this table. It is a place to hide in the shadow the simple but profound commandment he gave to all who seek to follow of terror. A place to celebrate the terrible victory. him: Love one another as I have loved you. G.K Chesterton once wrote, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found We have given birth on this table, difficult and left untried.” Imagine what would happen to us, to the Church, and have prepared our parents for burial here. to the world, if we took this commandment of Jesus’s seriously? What could look like if we obeyed orders and cultivated unconditional At this table we sing with joy, with sorrow. We pray of suffering and remorse. love? Perhaps it feels impossible. But here’s our saving grace: Jesus doesn’t We give thanks. leave us alone and bereft. We are not direction-less in the wilderness. He gives us a road map, a clear and beautiful way forward: “As I have loved you.” Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and Follow my example, Jesus says. Do what I do. Love as I love. Live as you crying, eating of the last sweet bite. have seen me live. What might that look like? For starters, maybe it looks like this: Weep with those who weep. Laugh with those who laugh. Touch 4 5 had come to depart from this world You call me Teacher and Lord--and Maundy and go to the Father. Having loved you are right, for that is what I am. Thursday his own who were in the world, he So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have loved them to the end. The devil washed your feet, you also ought to Agapé Meal had already put it into the heart wash one another’s feet. For I have of Judas son of Simon Iscariot set you an example, that you also A simple meal is preferred. Including to betray him. And during supper should do as I have done to you. bread is highly recommended. Jesus, knowing that the Father had Very truly, I tell you, servants are If several are gathered, one can preside given all things into his hands, and not greater than their master, nor or people may take turns leading prayers that he had come from God and are messengers greater than the one and reading. Even when alone, we use the was going to God, got up from the who sent them. If you know these plural “we” in our prayers, as the Church table, took off his outer robe, and things, you are blessed if you do is gathered across time and space in this tied a towel around himself. Then he them. celebration of the Last Supper. poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to “Now the Son of Man has been wipe them with the towel that was glorified, and God has been glorified PRAY OVER THE MEAL tied around him. He came to Simon in him. If God has been glorified Over the Rest of the Meal Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are in him, God will also glorify him in Blessed are you, Lord our God, Over Bread you going to wash my feet?” Jesus himself and will glorify him at once. Ruler of the universe. You have answered, “You do not know now Little children, I am with you only Blessed are you, Lord our God, given us this food to eat, which Ruler of the universe. You bring what I am doing, but later you will a little longer. You will look for me; earth has given and human hands understand.” Peter said to him, and as I said to the Jews so now forth grain from the earth to have made. Let this meal strengthen nourish us. Let us be fed again soon “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus I say to you, `Where I am going, us in the fast that is before us, that answered, “Unless I wash you, you you cannot come.’ I give you a new with the bread of life, the Body of following our Savior in the way of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. have no share with me.” Simon commandment, that you love one the cross, we may come to the joy Peter said to him, “Lord, not my another. Just as I have loved you, Glory to you forever and ever. of his resurrection. Glory to you Amen. feet only but also my hands and my you also should love one another. forever and ever. Amen. head!” Jesus said to him, “One who By this everyone will know that you has bathed does not need to wash, are my disciples, if you have love for Over Wine / Juice EAT THE MEAL Blessed are you, O Lord our God, except for the feet, but is entirely one another.” If several are gathered, they first serve one clean. And you are clean, though not Ruler of the universe. You create another, then dine. the fruit of the vine; and you refresh all of you.” For he knew who was to The of the Lord. us with the cup of salvation in the betray him; for this reason he said, Praise to you, Lord Christ. Blood of your Son Jesus Christ. May HEAR THE WORD “Not all of you are clean.” The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus the time come quickly when we can Reflect: Christ according to John. share that cup again, even as you are After he had washed their feet, had Watch Dan Clandenin’s meditation with us now in our very thirst for put on his robe, and had returned on Betrayal and Love: https:// Now before the festival of the to the table, he said to them, “Do you. Glory to you for ever and ever. tinyurl.com/HolyWeekStMarks2021 Passover, Jesus knew that his hour you know what I have done to you? 6 7 in the presence FOOT WASHING Optional hand washing LORD’S PRAYER Set up what you need to wash feet. A wash If washing of feet is not feasible, you may Our Father, who art in heaven, of all the people of God. basin, a pitcher with warm water, and a choose to wash your hands with this prayer: hallowed be thy Name, In the courts few towels are sufficient. If you wish to use thy kingdom come, of the house of the Lord, a bit of soap, feel free. I cleanse my hands as I was cleansed thy will be done, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. in the waters of new birth. I do this on earth as it is in heaven. The Lord Jesus, because Give us this day our daily bread. after he had we were And forgive us our trespasses, PRAYER supped with his commanded as we forgive those O God of the crucified and risen disciples and to love; to who trespass against us. One, from whom no trial or trouble had washed cleanse my And lead us not into temptation, can separate us: their feet, said hands and but deliver us from evil. you feed us with your Word and to them, “Do celebrate in soothe us with your Spirit, closer to you know what spirit while PSALMODY us than breath itself. I, your Lord distanced Psalm 116:1, 10-16 Make us glad this night for the life and Master, in body is of your servant Jesus; have done to a way that I love the Lord Make us servants of all for the sake you? I have I can help who has heard the voice of my of Jesus; who gave his life for the given you an protect the supplication, salvation of all. example, that vulnerable, who has listened to me In the Name of Jesus, your Child, you should do whom Jesus whenever I called. our Lord. Amen. as I have done.” loved. May How shall I repay you, O Lord, I be an instrument of love. May the for all the good things you have sacrifices I make be for the good STRIPPING OF THE TABLES I give you a : done for me? Clear your table deliberately and with of our human family near and far. Love one another as I have loved I will lift up the cup of salvation intention, in gratitude for what has Amen. you. and call upon your name. nourished you and in solemn preparation I will fulfil my vows to the Lord for the emptiness of Good Friday. If alone, wash your feet in reflection Reflect on God’s love, expressed through in the presence of all the people. the basic necessities of life. of God’s love for you, and the ways in Precious in your sight, O Lord You are invited to watch and pray which you are loving others by remaining is the death of your servants. with the stripping of the altar in the physcially distant. Feel the warmth FOOT LETTER O Lord, I am your servant; church: https://tinyurl.com/ of God’s care and all those who have We invite you to trace your foot on a piece I am your servant and the child of HolyWeekStMarks2021 previously cared for you in your life of paper, then decorate it with a greeting your handmaid; continuing to ground and support you. to mail to another parishioner. Visit this you have freed me from my bonds. If gathered with others, wash such that each link to participate: https://forms.gle/ I will offer you the sacrifice of has a turn washing and having their feet Dpz65ZnFkXJhrEhJ8 thanksgiving washed. Reflect on the love of God present or email [email protected] and call upon the name of the Lord. in both caring and being cared for. I will fulfil my vows to the Lord

8 9 Good Friday Devotion April 2, 2021 Reflection: Over time, it’s easy for the scandal and strangeness of Jesus’s It is finished. death to fade. After all, we’re used to worshipping in front of a crucifix; we often cross ourselves without thinking, or wear tiny replicas of the crucifixion around our necks. What if we could shake ourselves out of our familiarity, and see with new eyes what happened on this painful day we call “good?” God died. Jesus willingly took the violence, the contempt, and the hatred of this world and absorbed them all into his own body. He chose to be the victim, the scapegoat, the sacrifice. He refused to waver in his message of universal love, grace, and liberation, knowing full well that the message would cost him his life. In doing so, he declared solidarity for all time with those who are abandoned, colonized, oppressed, accused, imprisoned, beaten, mocked, and murdered. He burst open like a seed so that new life would grow and replenish the earth. He took an instrument of torture and turned it into a vehicle of hospitality and communion for all people, everywhere. He loved and he loved, all the way to the end. Jesus was and is many things: teacher, healer, companion, and Lord. But the center, the heart of who he is, is revealed at the cross. The cross makes true vision possible.

Dark Testament Verse 8 Pauli Murray

Hope is a crushed stalk Between clenched fingers Hope is a bird’s wing Broken by a stone. Hope is a word in a tuneless ditty — A word whispered with the wind, A dream of forty acres and a mule, A cabin of one’s own and a moment to rest, A name and place for one’s children And children’s children at last . . . Hope is a song in a weary throat. Give me a song of hope Collect of the Day: Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom And a world where I can sing it. our Lord was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and Give me a song of faith to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the And a people to believe in it. Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Give me a song of kindliness And a country where I can live it. Give me a song of hope and love And a brown girl’s heart to hear it. 10 11 shall see, and that which they had Good Friday Good Friday not heard they shall contemplate. For he was cut off from the land 7 Last Words Contemplative of the living, stricken for the Who has believed what we have transgression of my people. They Service Service heard? And to whom has the arm of made his grave with the wicked and the Lord been revealed? For he grew his tomb with the rich, although he This service of readings and prayers, with Take your time as you move through this up before him like a young plant, had done no violence, and there was reflections by members of the service to read slowly, reflect deeply, and and like a root out of dry ground; no deceit in his mouth. St. Mark’s community, will premiere at 12 pray wholeheartedly. he had no form or majesty that we noon on YouTube on April 2: https:// should look at him, nothing in his Yet it was the will of the Lord to tinyurl.com/HolyWeekStMarks2021 Blessed be our God. appearance that we should desire crush him with pain. When you For ever and ever. him. He was despised and rejected make his life an offering for sin, by others; a man of suffering and he shall see his offspring, and shall Almighty God, we pray you acquainted with infirmity; and as prolong his days; through him the graciously to behold this your family, one from whom others hide their will of the Lord shall prosper. Out for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was faces he was despised, and we held of his anguish he shall see light; willing to be betrayed, and given into him of no account. he shall find satisfaction through his the hands of sinners, and to suffer knowledge. death upon the cross; who now lives Surely he has borne our infirmities and reigns with you and the Holy and carried our diseases; yet we The righteous one, my servant, shall Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. accounted him stricken, struck down make many righteous, and he shall Amen. by God, and afflicted. But he was bear their iniquities. Therefore I will wounded for our transgressions, allot him a portion with the great, SCRIPTURE READINGS crushed for our iniquities; upon and he shall divide the spoil with him was the punishment that made the strong; because he poured out A reading from us whole, and by his bruises we are himself to death, and was numbered the prophet Isaiah (52:13--53:12) healed. All we like sheep have gone with the transgressors; yet he astray; we have all turned to our own bore the sin of many, and made See, my servant shall prosper; way, and the Lord has laid on him intercession for the transgressors. he shall be exalted and lifted up, the iniquity of us all. and shall be very high. Psalmody Psalm 22:1-11 Just as there were many who were He was oppressed, and he was My God, my God, why have you astonished at him– so marred was afflicted, yet he did not open his forsaken me his appearance, beyond human mouth; like a lamb that is led to and are so far from my cry and from semblance, and his form beyond the slaughter, and like a sheep that the words of my distress? that of mortals-- so he shall startle before its shearers is silent, so he did O my God, I cry in the daytime, but many nations; kings shall shut their not open his mouth. By a perversion you do not answer; mouths because of him; for that of justice he was taken away. Who by night as well, but I find no rest. which had not been told them they could have imagined his future? Yet you are the Holy One, 12 13 enthroned upon the praises of Pilate came out of the palace again When Pilate heard these words, they took his clothes and his sandals, Israel. and said to the Jewish leaders, he led Jesus out and seated him and divided them into four shares, Our ancestors put their trust in you; “Look! I’m bringing him out to on the judge’s bench at the place one for each soldier. His shirt was they trusted, and you delivered you to let you know that I find no called Stone Pavement (in Aramaic, seamless, woven as one piece from them. grounds for a charge against him.” Gabbatha). It was about noon the top to the bottom. They said to They cried out to you and were When Jesus came out, wearing the on the Preparation Day for the each other, “Let’s not tear it. Let’s delivered; they trusted in you and crown of thorns and the purple Passover. Pilate said to the Jewish cast lots to see who will get it.” This were not put to shame. robe, Pilate said to them, “Here’s the leaders, “Here’s your king.” The was to fulfill the scripture, But as for me, I am a worm and not man.” When the chief priests and Jewish leaders cried out, “Take him They divided my clothes among themselves, human, scorned by all and despised their deputies saw him, they shouted away! Take him away! Crucify him!” and they cast lots for my clothing. by the people. out, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate told Pilate responded, “What? Do you That’s what the soldiers did. All who see me laugh me to scorn; them, “You take him and crucify want me to crucify your king?” “We they curl their lips and wag their him. I don’t find any grounds for have no king except the emperor,” Jesus’ mother and his mother’s heads, saying, a charge against him.” The Jewish the chief priests answered. Then sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and “You trusted in the Lord; let the leaders replied, “We have a Law, and Pilate handed Jesus over to be Mary Magdalene stood near the Lord deliver you; let God rescue according to this Law he ought to crucified. cross. When Jesus saw his mother you, if God delights in you.” die because he made himself out to and the whom he loved Yet you are the one who took me be God’s Son.” The soldiers took Jesus prisoner. standing nearby, he said to his out of the womb, and kept me safe Carrying his cross by himself, he mother, “Woman, here is your son.” upon my mother’s breast. When Pilate heard this word, he was went out to a place called Skull Then he said to the disciple, “Here I have been entrusted to you ever even more afraid. He went back into Place (in Aramaic, Golgotha). That’s is your mother.” And from that time since I was born; you were my God the residence and spoke to Jesus, where they crucified him—and two on, this disciple took her into his when I was still in my mother’s “Where are you from?” Jesus didn’t others with him, one on each side home. womb. answer. So Pilate said, “You won’t and Jesus in the middle. Pilate had Be not far from me, for trouble is speak to me? Don’t you know that a public notice written and posted After this, knowing that everything near, and there is none to help. I have authority to release you and on the cross. It read “Jesus the was already completed, in order to also to crucify you?” Jesus replied, Nazarene, the king of the Jews.” fulfill the scripture, Jesus said, “I Gospel The Passion of our Lord “You would have no authority over Many of the Jews read this sign, for am thirsty.” A jar full of sour wine Jesus Christ according to John me if it had not been given to you the place where Jesus was crucified was nearby, so the soldiers soaked a (19:1-37). from above. That’s why the one was near the city and it was written sponge in it, placed it on a hyssop who handed me over to you has the in Aramaic, , and Greek. branch, and held it up to his lips. Then Pilate had Jesus taken and greater sin.” From that moment on, Therefore, the Jewish chief priests When he had received the sour whipped. The soldiers twisted Pilate wanted to release Jesus. complained to Pilate, “Don’t write, wine, Jesus said, “It is completed.” together a crown of thorns and put ‘The king of the Jews’ but ‘This man Bowing his head, he gave up his life. it on his head, and dressed him in However, the Jewish leaders cried said, “I am the king of the Jews.”’” a purple robe. Over and over they out, saying, “If you release this man, Pilate answered, “What I’ve written, It was the Preparation Day and went up to him and said, “Greetings, you aren’t a friend of the emperor! I’ve written.” the Jewish leaders didn’t want the king of the Jews!” And they slapped Anyone who makes himself out to bodies to remain on the cross on him in the face. be a king opposes the emperor!” When the soldiers crucified Jesus, the Sabbath, especially since that 14 15 Sabbath was an important day. So For all Christians in this community them, grant them knowledge of We adore you, O Christ, and we they asked Pilate to have the legs That God will confirm the Church God’s love, and stir up in us the will bless you, because by your holy of those crucified broken and the in faith, increase it in love, and and patience to minister to their cross you have redeemed the world. bodies taken down. Therefore, the preserve it in peace. needs. soldiers came and broke the legs Silence Silence If we have died with him, we shall of the two men who were crucified also live with him; if we endure, we with Jesus. When they came to Jesus, For all nations and peoples of the For those who have died. shall also reign with him. they saw that he was already dead so earth, and for those in authority they didn’t break his legs. However, among them; That we and they may be accounted We adore you, O Christ, and we one of the soldiers pierced his For Joe, President of the United worthy to enter into the fullness bless you, because by your holy side with a spear, and immediately States of the joy of our Lord, and receive cross you have redeemed the world. blood and water came out. The one For Congress the crown of life in the day of who saw this has testified, and his For the Supreme Court resurrection. THE LORD’S PRAYER testimony is true. He knows that For the United Nations Silence Our Father, who art in heaven, he speaks the truth, and he has For Governors and Mayors hallowed be thy Name, testified so that you also can believe. For all who serve the common good O God, let the whole world see and thy kingdom come, These things happened to fulfill the know that things which were cast thy will be done, scripture, They won’t break any of his That by God’s help they may seek down are being raised up, and things on earth as it is in heaven. bones. And another scripture says, justice and truth, and live in peace which had grown old are being Give us this day our daily bread. They will look at him whom they have and concord. made new, and that all things are And forgive us our trespasses, pierced. Silence being brought to their perfection by as we forgive those him through whom all things were who trespass against us. THE SOLEMN COLLECTS For all who suffer and are afflicted made, your Son Jesus Christ our And lead us not into temptation, God sent the Only Begotten One in body or in mind; Lord; who lives and reigns with you, but deliver us from evil. into the world not to condemn the For the hungry and the unhoused, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one it, but that the world through him the destitute, and the oppressed God, for ever and ever. Amen. COLLECT might be saved; that all who believe For the sick and the wounded Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the in him might be delivered from the For those who pray in isolation, VENERATION OF THE living God, we pray you to set your power of sin and death, and become due to illness, age, or other CROSS passion, cross, and death between heirs with him of everlasting life. vulnerabilities You are invited to find a cross in your your judgment and our souls, now We pray, therefore, for people For those in loneliness, fear, and home to venerate. You may touch or kiss and in the hour of our death. Give everywhere according to their needs. anguish the cross, bow, genuflect, or make another mercy and grace to the living; For those who face temptation, appropriate demonstration of devotion. pardon and rest to the dead; to your For the holy Church of doubt, and despair You may pray the following anthem, or holy Church, peace and concord; Christ throughout the world; For the sorrowful and bereaved to sing another song of prayer, such as and to us sinners, everlasting life and For all and other ministers For prisoners and those in mortal Hymnal #168 O Sacred Head, #172 glory; for with the Father and the and the people whom they serve danger Were You There?, or #474 When I Holy Spirit you live and reign, one For Marc our , and all the Survey the Wondrous Cross God, now and for ever. Amen. people of this That God will comfort and relieve 16 17 Easter Day Devotion April 4, 2021 Mark of the Nails Steve Garnaas-Holmes Encountering the Risen Christ You want to see real resurrection, Collect of the Day: not its paperwork. You want to touch it. Almighty God, who for our And you know where to look. redemption gave your only- Ignore your packaged and trimmed doctrine, begotten Son to the death of don’t even look in your slick success stories. the cross, and by his glorious Look in your wounds. resurrection delivered us Reach out and put your hand in your losses, from the power of the the mark of your shame. enemy: Grant us so to die Where is it empty? daily to sin, that we may Where does your failure flop out of its costume live with him in the joy of and bleed all over the floor? his resurrection; through Go ahead. Touch it. Jesus Christ our Lord, who Put your hand on your inadequacy. lives and reigns with you The deepest wounds go deeper than you. and the Holy Spirit, one Sit a while with the corpse of yourself. God, now and forever. Amen. Wait there. Wait for what you can’t wait for, can’t ask for. Reflection: In a beautiful essay Let that great emptiness open up in you. on the resurrection, theologian Chris Barnes reminds us of what actually Let it be as vast as God, matters on this high feast day of the church: “The question that Easter asks the wound divine, of us is not, ‘Do we believe in the doctrine of the resurrection?’ What the your anguish and your Beloved: one. ask is not, ‘Do you believe?’ but ‘Have you encountered the risen There, where it’s hopeless, Christ?’” In other words, what matters isn’t abstract doctrine – what matters that’s where the hope is. Go there. is encounter. What matters is encountering the risen Jesus, and finding in Listen for the voice. the mystery of his resurrected life the hope we need for our own. Often it’s only in retrospect, only as we look back at the “gravesides” of our lives, that we find the beginnings of new life. Poet R.S. Thomas describes the process this way in his poem, The Answer: “There have been times/when, after long on my knees/ in a cold chancel, a stone has rolled/from my mind, and I have looked/in and seen the old questions lie/ folded and in a place/ by themselves, like the piled/graveclothes of love’s risen body.” This Easter, may the Christ who rose in the early morning darkness lead us into new Easter Day Service life, new light, and new hope. May we know him in the half-lit places, the Our 10am service will be outdoors (socially distanced) as well as livestreamed shadowy places, the hard places. May we dare to linger at the graveside until on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vv_6-fpBV4 he calls our names. And may we share with hope the news of God’s greatest You can also watch at a later time at the same link. mystery: Christ is Risen. He is Risen indeed. Alleluia. 18 19 REFLECTIONS Debie Thomas

IMAGE CREDITS All images from Art in the , a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. Cover Cross, http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink. pl?RC=55037 Maundy Thursday Saget, Father George. Last Supper, http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act- imagelink.pl?RC=58346 JESUS MAFA. The Lord’s Supper, http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act- imagelink.pl?RC=48272 Paynter, David, 1900-1975. Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, detail of mural, http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54318 Good Friday: Duccio, di Buoninsegna, d. 1319. Thief on the Cross, detail from Crucifixion, http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=49168 Ntiro, Sam J., 1923-1993. Kakindo Crucifixion (photograph of original color work), http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55704 Easter Hall, Sarah. Living Cross, http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink. pl?RC=56472

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