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A Reflection from Scott Hayes
Meditation for Holy Week
Each great feast of the Church brings its own familiar rhythm. The flower guild prepares special arrangements; the altar guild changes the hangings; acolytes serve in full force; choirs take on extra rehearsals; and in the office, bulletins multiply. It’s an offering of time and care from many people—and we are blessed at All Saints to have so many hands at work.
One of those offerings is our annual Good Friday Meditation. Some years, a single large work carries the whole service—Maunder’s Olivet to Calvary or Chilcott’s St. John Passion. Other years, we weave music more directly into the Good Friday liturgy. This year is one of those.
At the heart of our meditation is Heinrich Schütz’s Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz (The Seven Words of Christ on the Cross), surrounded by additional music and poetry. It will be accompanied by string quartet, oboe, and organ, with the role of Jesus sung by Jason Brown, Director of Music at Richmond’s First Presbyterian Church.
Bringing something like this to life takes many hands. The choir learns the music (with help from Ambrose Clark on German); soloists prepare their roles; instrumentalists are engaged and organized (thanks to Daniel Stipe); poetry is chosen (thanks to Megan McDermott); and everything is shaped into the liturgy (thanks to Ben Robertson). It’s worship—but it’s also a real production.
I hope you’ll join us in keeping Holy Week, day by day: Maundy Thursday (with dinner) at 6:00 p.m.; Good Friday at noon and 7:00 p.m.; the Easter Vigil on Saturday at 8:00 p.m.; and Easter Day at 8:00 and 10:30 a.m.
And if you see one of those many hands at work, thank them—Holy Week and Easter would not be what they are without them.
Soli Deo Gloria,
Scott Hayes
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Easter Egg Hunt: April 4 at 10:00am
Join us in the courtyard on April 4 at 10:00am for crafts, treats, and an Easter Egg Hunt. All you need to do is bring an Easter Basket of some kind and you are welcome to bring a friend! Kids can also take home some bunny bait to leave out for the Easter bunny.
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Easter Sunday Hospitality
This Sunday, join us for Easter treats and snacks in the parish hall following the 10:30am service! We invite you to bring something to share as we enjoy time together in fellowship. If you’re able, please drop off your item in the parish hall before the service begins. Thank you!
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Flowering of the Cross: This Sunday at 10:30am
We invite you to bring flowers or greenery from your yard to the 10:30am Easter service to help flower our large cross. Help add the beauty of our Easter service!
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Holy Week + Easter
Maundy Thursday Service + Dinner, April 2 at 6:00pm: Focusing on Jesus’s command to his disciples to love one another as he has loved them and his institution of the Eucharist to be shared together as a sign of our unity in Christ, this service will feature music, Holy Communion, a simple stripping of the altar, and silent procession out as we move into the solemnity of Good Friday. Following the service, we will gather for dinner in the parish hall.
Good Friday, April 3 at 12:00pm: This is the only day of the year in which we do not celebrate the Eucharist, but rather focus on the cross through the reading of the Passion Narrative (the crucifixion of Jesus) and a series of prayers known as the Reproaches. Our service begins and ends in silence.
Good Friday, April 3 at 7:00pm: Heinrich Schütz - Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross
All Saints Choirs invite you to a deeply moving Good Friday choral meditation, a rare and powerful work by early Baroque composer Heinrich Schütz: Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz (The Seven Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross). This compelling setting reflects on Christ’s final words from the cross through expressive, prayerful music (sung in German), accompanied by string quartet, oboe, and organ. The seven words are sung primarily by soloists, many of them our own accomplished Choral Scholars, with the role of Jesus sung by Dr. Jason Brown, Director of Music at Richmond’s First Presbyterian Church. Join us at All Saints on Good Friday for this solemn and beautiful musical offering, as we enter together into the mystery and meaning of the day.
Easter Vigil, April 4 at 8:00pm: We gather in the dark, and the service features light and fire as well as placing the story of our faith in context through a series of readings from the Old Testament. We light a new fire, process the Paschal Candle (the light of Christ), we will proclaim that Christ is Risen and renew our baptismal vows, and we will celebrate the first Eucharist of Easter. The setting is very dramatic and while the service is longer than usual, it is very powerful. Bring some bells to ring when we proclaim the resurrection.
Easter Sunday, April 5 at 8:00am + 10:30am: The 8:00am Rite I Easter Eucharist will feature trumpet and the Choral Scholars and the 10:30am Rite II Easter Eucharist will feature a children's homily, a trumpet trio, and our full choir. Wear your Easter Bonnet and join us for either of these traditional festival services!
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Celebrate Resurrection Food Collection
Celebrate the Feast of the Resurrection on Sunday, April 5 by bringing items for the First Fruits collection to benefit Welborne Food Pantry. As you invite friends and family to attend All Saints on Easter Day, invite them to bring items and vote for your favorite: Peeps or Jelly Beans!
Current needs:
Cereal
Canned green vegetables
Mashed potatoes
Snacks- lance type cracker packs, individual bags of goldfish or pretzels or trail mix
Cooking oil
Canned chicken
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Adult Formation Will Not Meet Palm Sunday or Easter
The Sunday morning Faith Formation will not meet on Palm Sunday or on Easter. They will resume meeting on Sundays at 9:15am in Thornton Hall on Sunday, April 12.
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Signup for VBS!
Children’s and Family Ministries invites children ages 3 through rising 6th grade to our Snowball Mountain Challenge, June 22nd–26th, from 9:00 am–12:00 pm. Kids will enjoy games, stories, and hands-on activities while learning to trust God and grow in faith through our theme verse, “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:13). Registration is $45 per child.
Rising 5th and 6th graders are invited to join the week and participate in a mission-based program - students become scientists for the Kids Clean Water Project as they discover the global water crisis, how it affects kids just like them, and how they can help those kids receive clean water and hear The Gospel!
Sign up today!
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Children's Chapel Volunteers Needed
We would love to have your help one Sunday this spring! Come and spend time with our littlest saints during the 10:30 am service. The only requirements are a positive attitude and a willing heart! We are looking for one volunteer each week, with two volunteers needed for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. Sign up for a Sunday here: https://bit.ly/3Lh7Beq
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Welborne United Methodist Food Pantry Donations
Welborne is in need of food donations for their food pantry. Please consider picking up a few items during your next grocery trip and donating them to the green shed outside of the All Saints Playground.
Click here to view Welborne's Facebook page where they post updates as well as their current weekly needs.
If you are interested in volunteering at Welborne, please email Karen Sundlun at sundlun@verizon.net
CURRENT FOOD PANTRY NEEDS:
Cereal
Canned green vegetables
Mashed potatoes
Snacks- lance type cracker packs, individual bags of goldfish or pretzels or trail mix
Cooking oil
Canned chicken
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Get In Touch with Us!
All Saints Staff
Nick Brata, Director of Youth Ministries
Natallia Chyhryna, Financial Administrator
Victoria Childress, Director of the Nursery
The Rev. David Curtis, Deacon
Scott Hayes, Director of Music
Winston Hazlegrove, Parish Administrator
The Rev. Megan McDermott, Assistant Rector
Whitney Reid, Director of Children & Family Ministries
The Rev. Ben Robertson, Rector
Robert Rosenbrook, AV Coordinator
Daniel Stipe, Principal Organist
Melissa Taylor, Preschool Director
Tyronn Wilkins, Building & Grounds
All Saints Vestry
Bill Burgoyne
John Delandro, Junior Warden
Paul Fincke
June Lehman
Alyson Ridpath
Carol Smithson
Will Washburn, Senior Warden
Errol White, Treasurer (Ex-Officio)
Claiborne Winborne
Jim Wyatt, Clerk
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