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Maundy Thursday Children Youth and Families

On Maundy Thursday we remember how Jesus gave us a model for loving one another through an act of service. Our celebration includes music and appointed readings.

Near the end of the service, we will pause so that family members can wash each other’s feet at home, before closing with our final prayers.

To participate fully in this service, you may wish to gather a basin, a water pitcher and towels for the foot washing portion. You may also wish to bake bread with your families (here’s a recipe), which will be referenced at the end of the service. Email Alyssa Pasternak Post for Zoom meeting details.

Maundy Thursday
An Agape meal with Bishop Scanlan

Join Bishop Scanlan virtually—at a time that suits you on Thursday—as she prepares and shares an Agape meal in her home on the night we remember the Last Supper.

This time of fellowship and prayer will continue with the Bishop demonstrating how we can create small altars as holy spaces in our homes for the Paschal Triduum (the three days from the evening of Maundy Thursday to Easter Day).

To participate most fully in the program, please prepare a light meal—bread, cheese, dried fruit, wine or juice—to enjoy during the Agape portion of the evening. Click here to visit Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania website and view the videos with Bishop Scanlan.

All Night Prayer Vigil to be Held on the Central PA Diocesan Facebook Page
Thursday evening 8 PM – Thursday morning 8 AM

Everyone is invited to participate in an all-night prayer vigil via the Central Pennsylvania Diocesan Facebook Live page from 8 PM – 8 AM.

Every hour, on the hour there will be scripture reading and prayer. A separate schedule of the prayer vigil hosts will be posted on the diocesan website soon.

Click here to learn more at the diocesan website.
Click here to visit the diocesan Facebook page.

Good Friday The Seven Last Words 12 PM – 3 PM

This year lay and ordained Episcopalians from around the diocese will participate in a virtual offering of The Seven Last Words from 12 Noon until 3 PM on Good Friday.

The program will include elements of our Book of Common Prayer Good Friday liturgy as well as prayers and collects. Musical interludes will offer time for contemplation or departure. The highlight of the program will be offerings and homilies that a small group of preachers and worship leaders will share with the virtual congregation who participate. Viewers and listeners are welcome to come and go as well as follow along with their bibles and prayer books.

Join us as we engage and share in this unique offering of Jesus’ Last Words on the Cross.

Click here to visit the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania website and view The Seven Last Words.

Good Friday
Family Stations of the Cross
4:30 PM, via Zoom

Follow Jesus from the Garden of Gethsemane to his death on the cross in this Good Friday service. We will pause at each station to read and to pray with Jesus in his journey to the cross. You may wish to have a cross to hold during this service.

Email Alyssa Pasternak Post for Zoom meeting details.

Easter Vigil Service on our Livestream Channel Lead by Fr. David with Bishop Scanlan Saturday, 7 PM

  This is the first and central liturgy of Easter from which the Easter fire is kindled. Beginning Saturday evening in holy darkness, we recount, using scriptures and song, the mystery and light of Christ emerging from the tomb.

Thanks be to God for his saving works and the joyous celebration of his risen Son that marks the beginning of the fifty days of Easter.
Click here to view the service (will not be available until Saturday at 7 PM).

Saint James Easter Sunday Service on Livestream

Join us Sunday morning via our livestream channel for the Easter Sunday recorded service with Fr. David.

Click here to view the Easter Sunday recorded worship service for this weekend.