St. Mark's is
Celebrating Holy Week 2020 
​At Home & Online

St. Mark's Holy Week 2020 Community Project
​"Reflecting Resurrection"

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See how St. Mark’s members are celebrating Holy Week at Home and discovering resurrection in the midst of the suffering of our global crisis.

 
If you have a Holy Week photo or written reflection to share “Reflecting Resurrection”, please email: [email protected]

Create a Home Altar 

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Create a Home Altar for Holy Week at Home
As you prepare for Holy Week, begin by creating a designated space for prayer and worship at Home in Holy Week: Click here for some ideas on how to create your home altar. Please send us a photo of your home altar! We’d love to see where you’re praying!  (Email [email protected])

Palm Sunday

Online Palm Sunday Service: Sunday, April 5, 2020, 9:30AM
Livestreaming from the Fish Garden and Nave at St. Mark’s

Link to Order of Worship for Palm Sunday
Link to FB Livestream
Link to Video Recordings of all Services

  • MATERIALS/SET UP:  Gather branches to carry in procession!  We don’t have palm branches this year at St. Mark’s...so we’re doing things the really traditional way!  Gather branches and local foliage from your yard and neighborhood!  (Just be super careful if you are waving cactus branches!!!)

  • LOCATION: If it is possible for you to livestream the service from a mobile device, you are encouraged to celebrate the Liturgy of the Palms outdoors!  Join in the Procession of the Palms around your home, around a park, around the block, or in the mountains!  Make some decisions in advance regarding the location(s) where you will celebrate this liturgy, and the “route” you will travel in procession.  
Practice singing the refrain to Psalm 118, which we'll sing in procession with our branches at the start of the service!
Hosanna in the highest!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest!
Additional Palm Sunday Services & Resources

Monday of Holy Week

10AM Holy Week Family Worship w/Mother Sylvia: God's Love is Forever 12PM Livestream: Holy Week at Home with Bishop Hunn
More Resources for Holy Week at Home

Tuesday of Holy Week

Online Tenebrae Service: Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 7PM
Livestreaming from the home of Deacon David

Link to Order of Service for Tenebrae
Link to FB Livestream
Link to Video Recordings of all Services

  • MATERIALS/SET UP: 15 candles (optional) “Tenebrae” is a Latin word meaning “darkness” or “shadows”.  We encourage you to celebrate this service in a darkened room, or in a space lit only by candles.  If you choose to light candles at home, you should plan to extinguish your candles during the service , as the online leaders extinguish their candles, so that the service concludes in darkness. 
A distinctive aspect of the service of Tenebrae is the chanting of the  Lamentations of Jeremiah (in which each verse is introduced by a letter of the Hebrew alphabet.). Listen to Fr. Christopher chant the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the audio recordings, below.

Wednesday of Holy Week

10AM Holy Week Family Worship w/Mother Sylvia: Mary anoints Jesus  ​​12PM Livestream Holy Week at Home with Bishop Hunn
More Resources for Holy Week at Home

Maundy Thursday

Online Maundy Thursday Liturgy: Thursday, April 9, 2020, 7PM
Livestreaming from the Nave at St. Mark’s

Link to Order of Service for Maundy Thursday 
Link to FB Livestream
Link to Video Recordings of all Services

Link to join All Night Watch/Prayer Vigil via zoom (open from the end of the Maundy Thursday liturgy until Good Friday at 7AM)

  • MATERIALS/SET UP:  If you are celebrating this liturgy in a household with one or more other people, you may wish to prepare materials to participate in the ritual of footwashing:  A large bowl or basin, a pitcher of warm water, a towel.   If you are celebrating this liturgy in a household without other people, you may wish to consider some other meaningful action of generosity or humility to mark your obedience to Jesus’ command to follow his example of humble, loving service.  
 
  • LOCATION: On Maundy Thursday we commemorate the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples.  As such, it would be appropriate for you to consider setting up space in your own kitchen or dining area to celebrate this liturgy.  
Practice singing this chant, which we'll sing during communion.
Stay with me, remain here with me.
Watch and pray. Watch and pray.
Additional  Services & Resources for Maundy Thursday

Good Friday

Online Good Friday Service: Friday, April 10, 2020, 12PM

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Albuquerque
Livestreaming from the Nave at St. Mark’s

Link to order of Worship for Good Friday
Link to Music for Chanted Passion Gospel
Link to FB Livestream
Link to Video Recordings of all Services

  • MATERIALS/SET UP:  You may wish to find or make a cross to serve as a focal point for this service.    
  • LOCATION: Good Friday is marked by simplicity and solemnity.  You may wish to observe this liturgy in a relatively stark or barren setting with minimal distractions: a quiet room or outdoor space.  Alternately, you may wish to observe this liturgy in a location that affords you a view of the wider world with and for which the Crucified One suffers.  
Learn and practice singing this chant in preparation for today's service:
Behold the wood of the cross
whereon was hung the world's salvation
O come, let us adore him.
Additional  Services & Resources for Good Friday

Holy Saturday

Online Great Vigil of Easter: Saturday, April 11, 2020, 8PM
Livestreaming from the Cecil Fish Courtyard at St. Mark’s

Link to Order of Worship for Easter Vigil
Link to Join Service on Zoom
Link to watch livestream/video on Facebook (Please start a watch party!!!!)
Link to Video Recordings of all Services

  • MATERIALS/SET UP:  Materials for kindling a “new fire” (fire pit, wood, etc.) , candles, bells, a bowl of water and branch of rosemary (for renewal of baptismal vows) festive drinks and snacks, (for celebration following the liturgy.) You might also wish to create & bury an ‘Alleluia’ at home (as we did at church at the beginning of Lent) which you can disinter as part of our celebration! 
  • LOCATION: If you are kindling a fire, you may wish to begin this liturgy outdoors.  The first part of the liturgy should be celebrated in complete darkness, except for the light of the “new fire” you kindle, and the light of candles (and the light of your livestreaming device.)  
Practice singing the Easter Troparion, below, to help us usher in the resurrection!
Christ is risen from the dead,  
trampling down death by death
and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!

Easter Day

Online Easter Day Liturgy: Sunday, April 12, 2020
Organ Prelude at 9:00AM
Holy Eucharist at 9:30AM
Livestreaming from the Nave & Fish Garden  at St. Mark’s

Link to Order of Service for Easter Day
Link to FB Livestream
Link to Video Recordings of all Services


  • MATERIALS/SET UP/LOCATION:   Take care to prepare a beautiful space to celebrate this joyful liturgy.  You might consider celebrating this liturgy in an outdoor location: your yard, a garden, a park, the mountains...even a graveyard might be suitable! If you are indoors, surround yourself with flowers, plants, and color.  Wherever you are, surround yourself with abundant signs of beauty, love, and life! Fill a bowl with water and add a sprig of rosemary to remember your baptism. Don’t forget to gather up any bells you have at home---and ring those bells like crazy with every Alleluia you sing, say,or hear!  ​
Practice singing the Easter Troparion, below, to help us usher in the resurrection!
Christ is risen from the dead,  
trampling down death by death
and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!
Additional  Services & Resources for Easter Day
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