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Show Moab Episcopalians plan to celebrate Holy Week Beginning with Palm Sunday, members of St. Francis Episcopal Church will celebrate Holy Week, the week before Easter. They will join with the rest of Catholic Christendom, both in the East and the West, and reenact the events leading up to the Passion of Christ. The service for Palm Sunday will begin with the reading from the Gospel of Christ's triumphal entry en-try into Jerusalem. Palm branches will then be blessed, and the congregation congre-gation will process into the church with the palms. The service continues with ' the reading of the cruxifLz-ion cruxifLz-ion and death of Jesus, and the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, the Lord's Supper. During the following week, the various traditional tradi-tional rites will be celebrated, cele-brated, with each day commemorating a special event. These celebrations originated in Jerusalem in the fourth century, and came out of the natural desire of Christian pilgrims pil-grims in Jerusalem to re-enact re-enact the last scenes of the life of Christ in liturgical drama. The week moves from the betrayal of Judas; to Maundy Thursday commemorating com-memorating the institution institu-tion of the Lord's Supper; to the stark reality of Christ's death on the cross on Good Friday. On Saturday evening, the congregation of St. Francis will keep the Easter Vigil-the center-point center-point of the Christian year. The Vigil begins with readings from the Old Testament about the action of God in the world, and the coming of the Messiah, the Christ. The congregation then renews their baptismal vows, and reads from Scripture of the resurrected Christ I The service conclude, with the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, rejoida, in the presence of the Risen Lord among us, aj celebrating our salvation through His death ami resurrection. The Church of gt Francis invites all Christi! ans who might be looki for a renewed sensei) Christ's presence to join , with them in these Hoh ' Week celebrations. Thej will be held daily at the ' Church, 250 Cane Creek! Road: Palm Sunday, 10 a.m.; Monday, 7:30 p.m.; Tue day, 7:30 p.m.; Wednes-day, Wednes-day, 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Good Friday 12 noon, Easter Vigil on Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Easter Eas-ter morning, 10 a.m. |