marking the passion
Thursday, April 13, 2006
I received an email this morning asking the following question... "how are Maundy Thurday - Good Friday - Easter Sunday celebrated in different emerging Church groups? I'd be interested to see new ritual forms."
For our part, Dream in Liverpool City have a service tonight titled 'watch & pray - an easter vigil'. By way of outline, we'll begin with a call to worship and then a visual meditition on the events of the Passion (found 'here'), leading into space for prayer and reflection aided by four stations focussing respectively on 'Gethsemane', 'The Trial', 'The Journey to Golgotha', and 'The Cross'. After this, we'll come together to share Communion. The aim of the service is to provide plenty of space for guided reflection, prompted by Jesus instructions to his disciples in Gethsemane to 'watch and pray'.
So that's our response to the emailer! It'd be great if other responses could be posted here. How is your community marking the events of the passion?
After stating that I'll be posting every Tuesday, I'm away next week (hitting the family trail!) so skip a week and come back on 25th April!!
Labels: Dream
I'm Malcolm Chamberlain
from Liverpool, United Kingdom
. I'm married with two young children and, in addition to Liverpool, have lived in Leicester (for the first 18 years of my life), York, Peshawar (Pakistan), Oxford and Walsall. I've been actively involved in the emerging church since 2001, as a founding member of Dream in Liverpool City, and coordinator of the Dream network. I'm currently engaged in research into emerging missional communities, and work as a parish priest and pioneer minister.
