Lent 2025
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2025 lent/Easter services & Activities
Take a look at what's happening during Lent below. Lent is a penitential liturgical season within the church calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday, March 5th and concludes with the sacred Triduum of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. This is always the 40 days leading up to Easter. It is a time of "self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God's holy Word” (BCP, p. 265).
Shrove/Fat Tuesday
Mardi Gras Celebration Sunday March 2nd
(after 10am worship)
Join us on March 2nd in the Carriage House after the 10am service for a Shrove Tuesday meets Mardi Gras Cajun Feast. We will have pancakes, sausages, and Cajun dishes brought in from our congregation pitch-in. For sure to be a fun luncheon with music, beads and lots of rib-sticking delicacies!
ALL ARE WELCOME!
"Laissez les bons temps rouler."
Let the good times roll!
March 5, 2025
Get your "ASH" to Church
Service at 7pm at St. Paul's Church - New Albany
Ashes to Go from 3pm-6pm at St. Paul's - New Albany
(11th Street between Main and Market Streets)
Ashes to Go from 9am-12pm at St. Paul's-Jeffersonville
(Corner of Walnut & Market Streets)
If you can't make our Ash Wednesday service, just come by one of our churches for a short prayer and get your ashes. Our priests will be outside, drive through or stay awhile.
Sunday Services in Lent
St. Paul's - New Albany
8am - Contemplative service with Holy Eucharist spoken using the traditional Rite I language from the Book of Common Prayer. (There is no music at this service)
10am - Penitential service with Holy Eucharist that includes music, singing, and the St. Paul's choir. This service uses Rite II language from the Book of Common Prayer.
Come and journey with us in the wilderness of LENT where we discover and embrace various ways that God calls us in everyday life so we can all more intentionally live life with purpose for the common good.
Stations of the Cross Wednesdays at 5:30pm
March 12th - April 9th
Join us at St. Paul's -New Albany in the church for Stations of the Cross, followed by a Soup dinner in the Parish House Parlor.
Each week will be a different liturgy in order to experience the journey from different perspectives. Come to one or come to all!
Traditional Way of the Cross - March 12
"Way of the Cross Gateway to Resurrection" - March 19
"A Gay Stations of the Cross" - March 26
"Way of the Cross Gateway to Resurrection" - Chanted "Not My Will but Yours Be Done" - April 2
"Everyone's Way of the Cross" - April 9
We hope that you will join us for these prayers and reflections and stay for a Lenten Soup Diner in the Parish House Parlor.
ALL ARE INVITED AND WELCOME
Palm Sunday
March 13, 2024
8am - Contemplative service with Holy Eucharist in spoken word only using the traditional Rite I language from the Book of Common Prayer. (There is no music at this service)
10am - Service with Holy Eucharist that includes music, singing, and the St. Paul's choir. This service used Rite II language from the Book of Common Prayer. There will also be a blessing of the palms and procession. ***This service begins in the Carriage House.***
Holy Week
March 14-20th
Holy Monday - March 14
*St. Paul's JEFFERSONVILLE
7pm
Holy Tuesday - March 15
*St. Paul's JEFFERSONVILLE
7pm
Holy Wednesday - March 16
*St. Paul's NEW ALBANY
5:30pm
Maundy Thursday - March 17
*St. Paul's NEW ALBANY
7pm
Good Friday - March 18
*CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH
7pm
Holy Saturday - March 19
*St. Paul's NEW ALBANY
10am
(following the brief prayer service, we will prepare the church for Easter)
The Great Vigil of Easter - March 19
*St. Paul's NEW ALBANY
10:30pm - Musical Prelude
11:00pm Service Begins
Easter Sunday - March 20
*St. Paul's NEW ALBANY
Contemplative Eucharist 8am
Festive Eucharist 10am
(followed by Easter Brunch in the Carriage House)