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Several weeks have past since we announced the sad news concerning the deaths of two members of our Transfiguration community. This is a reminder that their funerals will be held in the coming days. Please hold them and their loved ones in your prayers and extend your support in their grief.

Last Sunday to Donate
Easter Baskets for Gateway of Grace

Our Outreach ministry offers you an opportunity bring Easter joy to the children at Gateway of Grace by assembling Easter Baskets. You can be a part of this ministry by donating items we need for the Gateway of Grace Easter Family Fun Day. 

Items needed are:

• Empty Easter baskets
• Filled plastic eggs
• Individual packaged snacks – cookies, chips, crackers (candy must be Halal, no marshmallows or gelatin)
• Filled Easter baskets (no toys – max. value $25 / suggested items – crayons, coloring books, stickers)

Drop off your gifts at the Outreach Table in the Tower Cloister now through this Sunday, March 22.

The Idol of Politics

Wednesday, March 25 at 7:00pm

Brian Zahnd,

Author and Sr. Pastor of Word of Life Church,

St. Joseph, MO

Jesus was political. He advocated for the vulnerable, condemned injustice, and opposed empire. For Christians, faith informs politics. But for many today, their politics drives their faith, rather than the other way around, and political party is more important than church.

Pastor Zahnd is a pastor, theologian, and author of eleven books. After coming to faith in the 1970's, he founded Word of Life Church. In the midst of prayer and service, Zahnd's faith was publicly transformed by the conviction that Jesus deserved a better church. Today, Zahnd's ministry embraces Christianity's "Great Tradition."

Join us for the full evening program:

5:00pm – Stations of the Cross

6:00pm – Holy Eucharist

6:30pm – Lenten Meal

7:00pm – Guest Speaker

8:00pm – Compline (Click to View)

Nurturing Faith Through Fiction

This Thursday, March 26 at 7:00pm you are invited to watch and explore the compelling 1999 film, Compensation. Nurturing Faith Through Fiction meets in the parlor where you will enjoy a fine film and good discussion along with a bit of refreshments!

Figs With Kids Potluck & Game Night

Join Figs with Kids, our ministry for families with young children, for an evening of food, fun, and fellowship at the Transfiguration Youth Center on Friday, March 27, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Figs With Kids is hosting a Family Game Night and Potluck and would love to have your family there.

Bring a favorite dish or snack to share and a game or activity your family enjoys. We’ll provide pizza and drinks, so come ready to eat, play, and connect.

Whether you’re competitive or just in it for the laughs, it’s a great chance to spend time together and build community with other families. All ages are welcome!

Palm Cross Making

It's your once-a-year opportunity to join Daughters of the King for palm cross making in the Vestry Room Saturday March 28, from 10:00am - noon. Drop by to help make the little palm crosses that are distributed on Palm Sunday. All materials and instruction are provided. It’s simple and fun to do.

Contact

Olga Ruff

Holy Week Retreat with Scott Gunn

St. David's Denton invites you to a Holy Week Retreat with Fr. Scott Gunn, Executive Director of Forward Movement, on Saturday, March 28 from 9:00am - noon. Fr. Gunn will talk about what happens in each liturgy and why it matters for us today as disciples of Jesus. Whether this is your first Holy Week or your 90th, this interactive retreat will offer new insights on the mystery of our redemption. The event is free and open to the whole diocese. Childcare available through age 4.

Easter Dedications Deadline March 24

It's time to make your Easter Dedications of Flowers, Music, and Butterflies. Please make your dedications no later than end of day, Tuesday, March 24 so that we have time get them into our Easter service booklets.

Holy Week Begins Next Weekend

As we enter the later portion of our Lenten journey toward Easter, start making your plans to participate with your Fig Family in the milestones of our Faith in Holy Week. More details will be arriving in your mailbox soon, but for now, please note these key dates:

Palm Sunday

Saturday | March 28 at 5:30pm

Sunday | March 29 at 9:00am & 11:15am

Monday & Tuesday | March 30 & 31

Holy Eucharist at 12:00noon

Wednesday in Holy Week | April 1

Holy Eucharist at 12:00noon

The Passion Experience for Families at 6:00pm [SIGN-UP]

Tenebrae at 7:00pm

The Triduum 

Maundy Thursday | April 2

Soup Supper by Open Door at 5:00pm

Eucharist & Foot Washing at 7:00pm

Vigil before the Sacrament overnight [SIGN-UP]

Good Friday | April 3

Good Friday Service at 12:00noon

Stations of the Cross in the Nave at 2:30pm

Stations of the Cross for Families & Children at 5:30pm

The Great Vigil of Easter | April 4 at 8:00pm

Break The Fast Celebration following [See Below]

Easter Day | April 5

Easter Eucharist at 9:00am & 11:15am

Children's Easter Eucharist at 9:30am

Butterfly Release at 10:30am

Maundy Thursday Soup Supper

Open Door, our LGBTQ+ fellowship, will host Maundy Thursday’s Soup Supper on April 2. They have chosen Trans Lifeline as the beneficiary of proceeds from this year’s meal. Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis. Trans Lifeline aims to provide to the trans community the expected services and support one would receive from traditional civil services but run by trans individuals and for trans individuals to provide better support where traditional services fall short.



The suggested donation for the supper is $7/person or $25 for a family of 4 or more. You can sign-up and pay in advance or pay at the door. At sign-up, if you are feeling generous, you are also able to add an additional monetary gift. Dinner will be served prior to the Maundy Thursday service from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.

Bring Bread & Wine on Maundy Thursday

It is customary to bring loaves of bread and bottles of wine with you when you come to the Maundy Thursday Holy Eucharist at 7:00pm on April 2. The bread and wine is presented by you at the altar during the offertory. The bread collected is shared with others at Austin Street and the wine is poured at the Break the Fast Feast following the Great Vigil of Easter. Please remember to bring your gifts on Maundy Thursday.

Sign-up to Keep Watch

You are invited to help us keep vigil through the night before the Blessed Sacrament in Holy Cross Chapel following the Maundy Thursday Eucharist until Noon on Good Friday. Volunteers may register to keep watch for an hour, in keeping with Christ's invitation to his disciples to stay awake with him (Matthew 26:36-45). This is a powerful time of intimate spiritual connection to the Lord.

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Break the Fast

Following the Great Vigil of Easter on Holy Saturday, April 4, it is a long standing tradition to continue our celebration as the long Lenten Fast is now ended. You are urged to join in helping to make this event truly joyful. Use the buttons below to make your contribution whether it is of food for the event or a monetary contribution.

Help Stock our

Little Pantry

Help us keep the little free pantry outside the church entrance stocked with critical supplies for our neighbors in need. 

We need individuals or families to sign-up to be responsible for a week at a time starting with the month of March through June. 

Learn more and sign up using the button below.

Volunteer with
 Guns to Gardens

On April 18, Transfiguration will once again co-sponsor Guns to Gardens, at which the Biblical vision of “swords into plowshares” will come to life (Micah 4:3). The next event will be held at Royal Lane Baptist Church, and it will closely resemble the event held here last September. At G2G, owners of unwanted firearms can safely surrender them to be chopped into parts and transformed into garden tools.

Volunteers are essential, especially people who can operate a chop saw or have received gun safety training. Contact Fr. Casey with questions or to find out how you can help.

Contact

Fr. Casey

Introduce Your Children to Holy Week

This time of year, our children will most assuredly be thinking about bunny rabbits, Easter eggs and baskets, and time home from school. In our excitement of preparing for Easter celebrations, we must not overlook the importance of this as a time to instill in children, through prayer and practice, the importance of Holy Week. We have special Holy Week experiences for families with young Children and we look forward to sharing them with you:

Holy Week offering for families

Passion Experience for Families / April 1 / 6:00pm (Nursery Care Available) 

Good Friday Stations / April 3 / 5:30pm (Nursery Care Available)

Easter Sunday Service / April 5 / 9:00am / Roper Hall (Nursery Care Available)

Butterfly Release Immediately Following 9:00am service at the Bell Tower

Children's Easter Service
Flowering the Cross

Join us Easter morning for a special Children's Easter Eucharist at 9:30am in Roper Hall. You are encouraged to bring flowers from your home to help decorate our cross. Families will be invited to place their flowers on the cross at the beginning of the service. The decorated cross will be placed outside for out butterfly release immediately following the service.

VBS - Save the Date

Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 5

9:00am - Noon each day

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