Lent & Holy Week
Lent
- Lenten Soup Suppers | each Wednesday during Lent, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- Soup Suppers take place every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. (6:30p.m. on February 22nd) during Lent. The dates are: February 22, March 1, March 8, March 15, March 22, and March 29. This year our series will be Praying through the Psalms.Sign up to bring your favorite soup or chili and enjoy fellowship, dinner, and lessons from our clergy. Sign up sheets are posted in the Parish Hall. You can also contact Allison Kellermann at agkellermann@gmail.com or 615-653-6606.
- Stations of the Cross | each Friday during Lent, 6:00 p.m., in the Nave
- Walking the Stations of the Cross in St. Paul's Nave begins Friday, February 24 at 6 p.m. and continues each Friday through Good Friday, April 7. Please join us when you are able. Questions? Please contact Richard and Carol Detmer at rdetmer@comcast.net.
- Palms & Easter Lilies
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- Altar palms dedications for Palm Sunday due by Sunday, March 19, to be included in the Palm Sunday bulletin.
- Easter lilies and altar flower dedications are due by Sunday, March 26 to be included the Easter bulletin.Palms, Lily & Easter Flower Dedications
Dedication envelopes are now on the Flower Guild board located across from the elevator for altar palms, Easter lilies and altar flowers. Completed envelopes, emailed dedications, or online forms must be submitted by the dates listed above to have adequate time to order items and be included in the bulletins.
- Baptism Opportunity | Saturday, April 8
- Holy Baptism is the sacrament through which we enter into new life in Jesus Christ and are welcomed into the Church. Contact Jennifer Handy if you are interested in learning more at Jennifer.Handy@stpaulsmurfreesboro.org
Holy Week
- Palm Sunday, April 2
- Regular Worship Times: 7:30 a.m., 8:45 a.m., 11:00 a.m.
- Music offerings
- Prelude and processional music at 8:45 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. services: Ethan O'Connor and friends (steel drums)
- Introit: Hosanna to the Son of David by Victoria = choral scholars on the balcony
- Offertory: Chris Brosend, soprano, and Karen Clarke, violinist: "Erbarm dich" from Bach's St. Matthew Passion
- Communion: Benedictus by Karl Jenkins (violin and organ) and Tchaikovsky's "The Crown of Roses" (choir)
- Music offerings
- Regular Worship Times: 7:30 a.m., 8:45 a.m., 11:00 a.m.
- Weekday Holy Eucharist, Wednesday, April 5
- 7:00 a.m. A 30 minute spoken Eucharist in the Chapel
- Maundy Thursday, April 6
- 7:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist
- Live-stream link
- Bulletin will be linked by Wednesday, April 5
- Music offerings:
- Offertory: Scott Handy, tenor, and Henry Handy, pianist: Beethoven's "My Father" from Christ on the Mount of Olives
- Communion: William Byrd's "Ave verum corpus" = choral scholars
- 7:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist
- The Watch, Thursday, April 6 - Friday, April 7
- Click here to register for an hour of prayer.
- 9:00 p.m. Thursday - 8:00 a.m. Friday in St. Andrew's Chapel
- Good Friday, April 7
- 10:30 a.m. Holy Week Stations for Children
- 12:00 p.m. Worship with Downtown Churches
- 6:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross
- 7:00 p.m. Liturgy
- Live-stream link
- Bulletin will be linked by Wednesday, April 5
- Holy Saturday, April 8
- 10:00 a.m. Holy Saturday Liturgy
- 7:00 p.m. Easter Vigil, with Baptisms, nursery available. Service begins with the lighting of the New Fire in the Courtyard
- Easter Sunday, April 9
- Regular Worship Times: 7:30 a.m., 8:45 a.m., 11:00 a.m.
- Live-stream link and bulletin will by Friday, April 7 at noon
- Brass Quartet and choir at the 8:45 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. services
- 10:00 a.m. Egg hunt
- No Christian Education
- Regular Worship Times: 7:30 a.m., 8:45 a.m., 11:00 a.m.
- Easter Monday, April 10, Office closed