Ash Wednesday The Lenten season begins with Ash Wednesday worship on February 14 at 7:00 pm. This service includes corporate confession, Holy Communion, and the (optional) Imposition of Ashes. The ashes used on Ash Wednesday are made by burning the dried palm branches from Palm Sunday of the previous year. Following Ash Wednesday, the next five Wednesday evenings will have a midweek worship, also at 7:00 pm.
2024 Midweek Lenten Worship Series Please join us for a time of midweek worship and reflection on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 pm during Lent. Grace will hold five Wednesday services: two of Holden Evening Prayer and three of Evening Prayer from our ELW hymnal. Each week we will slow down and take some quiet time apart with God, as we listen to special music, and hear a "reader's theatre" based on the Gospel of John. Jesus encountered many people on the road to Jerusalem and his cross. What can we learn from these encounters?
Please join us for these five weekly gatherings, a pause to be with God and your church family, a time for prayer and spiritual reflection. Refreshments and social time in the Chapel area will follow each week’s gathering.
Dates:
February 21 – Holden Evening Prayer - Nicodemus (John 3:1-17)
February 28 – ELW Vespers - A Samaritan Woman (John 4:1-30)
March 6 – Holden Evening Prayer - An Adulterous Woman (John 7:53-8-11)
March 13 – ELW Vespers - Jairus, a Man Born Blind (John 9:1-38)
March 20 – Holden Evening Prayer - Mary of Bethany (John 11:1
All services will be held in person in our main church building, as well as available online at www.youtube.com/c/GraceLutheranChurchMacungiePA