
CHRISTIAN HIGH HOLY DAYS IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD (ANNO DOMINI) 2023
Sunday of Palm & Passion, 2 April 2023 Anno Domini, 10:30 a.m.

#PalmSunday
from the Cathedral,
2 April 2023 Anno Domini:
10:25 am Prelude
10:30 am Liturgy begins
Procession with Cedar Boughs
Preside, The Very Rev. Paul N. Johnson
Preach, The Rev. Deacon Matthew Bowman
Music, Helen Suh
From our weeks of Lenten pilgrimage today we move into Holy Week. With Jesus we enter Jerusalem and join the crowds cheering him on. Since our palm leaves froze this year, we will use our own cedar boughs to welcome him. We hear some of the Passion Gospel from St. Matthew, recognizing that, as the week goes by, we too are part of the cheering crowds and will become enthusiastic members of the jeering crowds also. So we ask forgiveness from a gracious God, and receive it in the body and blood of our Lord Jesus, through the gift of the Holy Eucharist.
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Maundy Thursday, 6 April 2023 Anno Domini
#MaundyThursday from the Cathedral
6 April 2023 Anno Domini
Silent reflection before the service
8 pm Liturgy begins
Presider, The Very Rev. Paul N. Johnson
Preacher, The Rev. Deacon Matthew Bowman
Music, Helen Suh
Service includes #Footwashing, #Eucharist, #StrippingoftheAltar
TRIDUUM, ACT I:
Our worship which takes us from Lent through Jesus’ death and resurrection into Easter is a three part service spanning three days (Hence the Latin term, Triduum). On this evening we remember, participate in, Jesus’ last evening with his disciples, as they gathered for their Passover. Jesus washed their feet – the work of a servant, or even a slave – and they shared the meal together, which becomes for us the Christian Eucharist, meal of thanksgiving, celebrated the first time on this night so long ago.

The word “Maundy” is an English form of the Latin word for commandment, mandatum. The over-arching theme of the day is Jesus’ new commandment to “love one another even as I have loved you,” a love sharply focused by the contrast of the betrayal which followed the meal that night before he died. Jesus’ great love is demonstrated both in his example of the footwashing (service) and in his gift of himself in the first Lord’s Supper, or Eucharist (thanksgiving). This is part one, or Act One, of the greatest worship drama in the life of the church, the three days (triduum), which begins Thursday evening and comes to dramatic conclusion at the Easter Vigil, THE Celebration of the Resurrection of Our Lord. The Liturgy continues on Friday morning, so there is no blessing or benediction to conclude the worship. Our Lord has been arrested; we depart in silence.
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Good Friday, 7 April 2023, Anno Domini

#GoodFriday from the Cathedral
7 April 2023 Anno Domini
Silent reflection before the service
#Tenebrae, the move into darkness
10:30 am Liturgy begins
Presider, The Very Rev. Paul N. Johnson
Music, Helen Suh, with the Cathedral Choir
Service includes Reading of the Passion According to St. John
and the Adoration of the Cross
TRIDUUM ACT II:
Good Friday: Seen as part of the larger mystery of salvation, it is appropriate for Good Friday to be an austere time of reflection and intercession, as well as of the adoration of Christ the crucified, the sacrificial Lamb of God. This note of austerity does not, however, preclude the note of triumph which the final hymn tomorrow will indicate: The King is enthroned upon his holy cross, glorified, and we are awestruck at the redemption of the whole world. We gather on Good Friday to celebrate the depths and riches and wonder of God’s love, not to hold a funeral service for a long-dead Jesus. This is Act Two and the Liturgy concludes Saturday night. Our Lord is in the tomb; we depart in silence.
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The Great Vigil of Easter, 8 April 2023 Anno Domini

#EasterVigil from the Cathedral
8 April 2023 Anno Domini
EASTER BEGINS AT SUNDOWN…
THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD
8 pm Liturgy begins outside around the New Fire
Presider, The Very Rev. Paul N. Johnson
Assisting Ministers, The Rev. Wayne McIntosh and The Rev. Deacon Matthew Bowman
Music, Helen Suh, with the Cathedral Choir
Readers are from the Cathedral and St. Francis Parish
Worship includes the Service of Light, the Service of the Word (multiple readings and homily), the Renewal of Baptism around the Font, and the Holy Eucharist.
A reception with light refreshments will follow the liturgy, as we continue our celebration of the Resurrection of Our Lord!
TRIDUUM ACT III:
The climax of the sacred three days (Triduum in Latin) that began on Maundy Thursday is reached in this service which abounds in archetypal imagery that evokes responses from deep within the human psyche: darkness and light, death and life, chaos and order, slavery and freedom. In this service the fullness of salvation finds expression in creation and redemption, prime covenant and new covenant, Baptism and Eucharist. This most holy night is the solemn memorial and the joyous celebration of the central mystery of salvation in Christ’s saving death and mighty rising, made real for all of us in the waters of baptism.
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Easter Sunday, The Resurrection of Our Lord, 10:30 am, 9 April 2023 Anno Domini

#EasterDay from the Cathedral
9 April 2023 Anno Domini
THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD
10:25 am Prelude
10:30 am Liturgy begins
Preside, Bishop Geoffrey Woodcroft
Preach, Dean Paul N. Johnson
At the Altar, Deacon Matthew Bowman
Music, Helen Suh with the Cathedral Choir
Lay Reader, Vic Janzen
Lector, Rene Jamieson
Sidespersons, Shirley Cooke, Beverley Grobb
Tech Support, Yongmin Kim, Brian Ford
Bells, Nigel Garson
Altar Guild, Donna Tremblay, Terry Conn
Cathedral Lighting Design, Ted Stebbing
Easter began with the Great Vigil of Easter on what we now call Saturday night, but which, for Jesus’ first disciples, and all observant Jews to this day, is the beginning – with sunset on Saturday – of the new day called Sunday. Easter Sunday, that day called The Resurrection of Our Lord, continues the celebration, and gets us into the party groove for the next seven weeks – a week of weeks – through the third of the great high Holy-Days of our Christian calendar, the Day of Pentecost.
Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed, hallelujah!
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