
You can join the service via YouTube.
The service will be live-streamed, beginning a bit before 10 am EDT; you’ll be able to watch live, or or re-watch the service at this link on YouTube at any time.
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.
Sundays and Seasons offers this reflection on the feast:
This festival, which originated in the fourth century, celebrates the triumph of the cross. Paul reminds us that Christ crucified is the power and wisdom of God. As Moses put a serpent on a pole to be a source of healing for the Israelites, we lift high the cross as the sign of our health and salvation. Each time we make the sign of the cross we remember our baptism into the death and resurrection of Christ.
Our cover image is a photograph of the San Damiano Cross. St. Francis of Assisi was said to have been praying before this large Romenesque rood cross when he received a vision of what God wanted him to do.
Jesus Christ is prominent on the cross. The next five largest figures are witnesses of the crucifixion: to the left, Mary his mother and St. John the Evangelist; to the right, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and the centurion from Matthew’s gospel who asks Jesus to heal his servant (Mt. 8. 5 – 13). In the corners are two Roman soldiers. One is Longinus—the traditional name of the Roman soldier who pierced Jesus’s side—holding the lance, and looking up at Jesus. The other is Stephaton, the traditional name of the soldier who offers Jesus sour wine. Six angels marvel from both ends of the crossbar. At the foot of the cross are the six patrons of Umbria (the region of Assisi): Sts. Damian, Michael, Rufino, John the Baptist, Peter, and Paul.
Above the cross, Jesus climbs out of the tomb and into heaven, now clad in regal garments and carrying the cross as a sceptre. At the very top is the hand of God with two fingers extended in blessing.