“A Beatles Celebration”

Seats in Section M1: $31 | Picnic Area: $2

Bus roundtrip from Federal Building, $5 if puchased in advance, $8 if purchasesd at the lot

Please speak with Virginia Fawcett (310-398-5380) by Sunday, May 16. 50 tickets have been reserved.

The Choir of St Paul’s Church presents “A Choral Eucharist” this Sunday, June 6, 10 a.m.

In this year of confirmation, Susan Palo Cherwien’s reflections on CREDO: I Believe will be the framework for the music of
Praetorius, Kopylow, Chilcott, Ippolitof-Ivanov & Manz.

The congregation rejoices to witness these five young men publicly affirm their baptism:

Jack Cano

Lars Eckstrom

James Keene

Steven Lanzarotta

Kevin Payne

We rejoice to receive Leah Borgeson, Corey Stigile, Jason DeRose, Andrew Hoag, Peter Huckfeldt, and Caroline and Ed Jaram into membership this morning. We extend a warm welcome to all!

The confirmation class kicks off its Lutheran World Relief “Health Kids for Haiti” service project. Please see the list of needed items below.

• One hand towel, dark color preferred
• One washcloth, dark color preferred
• One bath-size bar of soap (4-5 oz.) in its original wrapping
• One adult-size tooth brush in its original packaging
• One sturdy comb, remove packaging
• One metal nail file, or clippers with file atttached - remove packaging (do not substitute cardboard emery boards for the file, please)
• Six (6) band-aids, preferably 1/2″ to 3/4″, secured together with rubber band

Daughter of Maggie and Nathan; sister of Penelope

Jesus Christ is ris’n today, Alleluia! our triumphant, holy day, Alleluia! who did once upon the cross, Alleluia! suffer to redeem our loss, Alleluia! A warm and welcoming Easter brunch is served in the parish hall beginning at 8:30 a.m. and continues until 9:30. A children’s Easter egg hunt is planned for the morning as well. Festival Holy Communion is celebrated in the sanctuary at 10:00 a.m. Our parking lot is always particularly crowded on Easter. If you are able to arrive early and find neighborhood street parking so that our many visitors may be accommodated, this would be most helpful and welcoming.

We prepare the sanctuary for the celebration of Christ’s resurrection, beginning with a continental breakfast in the parish hall at 9:00 a.m. The decorating and fellowship continues through the morning, with lunch on-the-go for all worker-bees around noon.

At 12 noon, we gather for a simple liturgy of the “stations of the cross” in the sanctuary, as we walk the via dolorosa — the way of suffering — with Jesus at the hour of his crucifixion. This service is intentionally short (approximately 30 minutes in length) to accommodate lunchtime schedules. Throughout the remainder of the afternoon, the sanctuary will be open for prayer and reflection as we keep our Good Friday vigil beneath the cross of Jesus. At 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 p.m., a brief interlude of scripture, prayer, and song will punctuate our silent vigil-keeping at the cross. We will gather in the balcony for those brief, five-minute interludes. At 7:30 p.m., a service of tenebrae (shadows) and adoration of the crucified one will be held in the sanctuary, with scripture, hymns, and growing darkness as we commemorate the saving death of Jesus. It was a very good Friday indeed, “for God so loved the world.”

We gather at 7:30 p.m. to remember the night Jesus had a last meal together with his friends, the same evening on which he also took a towel and a basin of water and washed the feet of his followers, the night he gave a mandatum (a new “mandate” and thus the word maundy): to love one another. On this night, the night of his betrayal and arrest, we remember and do likewise as we wash one another’s feet and gather around the Lord’s table in a more intimate way. The liturgy concludes with the stripping of the altar, a reminder of our Lord’s humiliation at the hands of his enemies.