Easter 2017

The Triduum between Gettysburg, PA and Brooklyn, NY...Good liturgy on Holy Thursday and Good Friday at St. James in Gettysburg.It was a glorious Easter in Brooklyn, NY: celebrant at Epiphany Lutheran with 6 baptisms, and 13 first communions; attending St. Matthew/St. Luke Episcopal Church, and visiting family in the afternoon. 

Champagne was the order of the evening or early morning as we celebrated my sister's 66th birthday.

Good Friday

I went to St. Peter's Lutheran Church in New York this afternoon  with my sister where we attended the Service of Devotion...The Passion According to St. Matthew by J.S. Bach. It was truly a moving afternoon with the congregation invited to sing a number of the chorales. The choir and orchestra are magnificent. It is not a performance but a communal gathering. One's attention is centered on the cross of Jesus as so poignantly stated in the Bass Aria:
Come, healing cross, for me prepare it
My Savior! Lay on me its weight;
Whene'er my burden grows too great,
To thee I look for help to bear it.
Come, healing Cross