Event Information:
- Sun28Mar2021
Sunday of the Passion / Palm Sunday
We invite you to worship with us during this pandemic either in-person or online.
LIVESTREAM video available at www.vimeo.com/trinityworcester
Holy Eucharist is offered in the Trinity Nave at 10:00 a.m. every Sunday. All attendees wear face-masks and follow posted physical distancing guidelines. Up to six singers with masks sing from the organ gallery during the liturgy. The assembly does not sing. We commune with the bread only, received directly from the Presiding Minister in mask and gloves. This worship service is also available to watch and hear online via our Vimeo channel or through our congregational website.
In light of the ongoing risk posed by the coronavirus we invite you to make a responsible and healthy decision regarding your participation in our worship. Lutherans teach and confess that Christ is present in the assembly gathered around the proclaimed Word of God, in the water and the Word of Holy Baptism, and in the shared meal of bread and wine at Holy Communion.
BIBLE READINGS, PSALM & SONG, & THEMES
Mark 11:1-11 Processional Gospel: Jesus enters Jerusalem
Isaiah 50:4-9a The servant submits to suffering
Philippians 2:5-11 Death on a cross
Mark 14:1—15:47 The passion and death of Jesus
Psalmody: Psalm 31:9-16 Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit
Hymn of the Day: Hymn 343 My Song Is Love Unknown, LOVE UNKNOWN
Oftentimes, to grasp the fullness of something significant, we have to look at both sides. So it is that to approach the meaning of Christ, we have to say two things: Jesus and Christ; human and divine; dead and alive; bread and body. This Sunday celebrates these two sides: we begin by praising Christ with “Hosanna,” and we go on to shout “Crucify him!” Come to join us as we fit both truths into one service.