You can join the service, live or later, via YouTube.
The stream begins around 9:45, and the service begins at 10 am (EST). You’re able to watch or re-watch the stream on YouTube at any later time at the same link.
The order of service is available here.
You may want to have it handy while joining the stream. The order of service includes the readings and responses, and the words to the hymns, to make it easier to join in participating via the live stream. It also includes prayers you may wish to use during the reception of the Eucharist.
Today marks the beginning of Holy Week. We move this week from the glory of the palms to the glory of the resurrection, through the dark road of suffering and death. Our service begins today with a great procession, as we wave our palms and remember Jesus entering Jerusalem–but it will conclude with a reading of the passion from Mark’s gospel, as we prepare to follow Jesus to the cross. Sundays and Seasons offers this reflection on the day and the beginning of this week:
Today we follow Christ from triumphal entry to the cross, each waypoint of the journey marked by Jesus’ compassion for those who would betray, mock, accuse, or do violence to him. Though persecuted and beaten, Jesus the Son of God is not disgraced; instead, he asks forgiveness for those who put him to death. We have walked the Lenten pathway these forty days, each of us invited through baptism to “let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.” We enter this holy week accompanying Jesus to the cross with both grief and thanksgiving in our hearts, trusting in God’s redeeming love.
Our cover image is a Coptic icon of the Triumphal Entry.