Letter from the Rector: EASTER & HOLY WEEK 2025

Dear siblings in Christ,

I warmly invite you to experience Holy Week and Easter with us at Church of Our Saviour. Our ritual remembrance of Christ’s arrest, crucifixion, death, and resurrection will be all the better if you choose to spend your time among us in worship. Below, I share with you our Holy Week and Easter schedule. Please spread our blessed Holy Week schedule near and far:

Palm Sunday (4/13)

8:00 am: Holy Eucharist Rite I (in person, Historic Sanctuary)

10:00 am: Holy Eucharist Rite II Bilingual liturgy with a dramatic reading of the Passion and a donkey (online and in person, in English and Mandarin. Grace Chapel)

4:00 pm: Holy Eucharist

(in person, Grace Chapel)

Maundy Thursday (4/17)

8:00 am: Carpool to Our Saviour Center to volunteer at the food pantry, RSVP by Wednesday 4/16 to the church office (Email: info@cosepiscopal.org or Call: 626-282-5147)

7:30 pm: Holy Eucharist with symbolic washing of feet; Communion and Stripping of the Altar

(online and in person, Grace Chapel)

Good Friday (4/18)

12:00 pm: Walking Stations of the Cross

(meet at Historic Sanctuary)

7:30 pm: Good Friday liturgy with veneration of the cross

(online and in person, Historic Sanctuary)

Easter Vigil (4/19)

7:30 pm: Holy Eucharist and first celebration of Easter in person, starting in Telleen Courtyard and concluding in our Historic Sanctuary

(online and in person, Historic Sanctuary)

Easter Day (4/20)

8:00 am: Holy Eucharist Rite I

(in person, Historic Sanctuary)

10:00 am: Holy Eucharist Rite II

(online and in person, Historic Sanctuary)

10:00 am: Holy Eucharist in Mandarin

(online and in person, Grace Chapel)

11:30 am: Easter Egg Hunt

(at Peppertree Lane behind Cleaver Hall)

Each year, Church of Our Saviour requests donations at Christmas and Easter for additional music unique to the season. This year, I ask the same as we plan for live music during Easter. Thanks to our musicians, including Bob Crocker and Alice Rucker, we will have much to celebrate.

While I hope to also tell you in person, let me be the first to wish you a Happy Easter. Alleluia! Christ Is Risen!

Faithfully,

Jeff+