Welcome to Cross and Crown Lutheran Church.

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I wish you a most blessed and meaningful Holy Week. Together, we journey with Christ toward the Cross and beyond. The earliest Christians commemorated the institution of the Eucharist, the time when Jesus washed Peter’s feet, and Christ’s mandate to love one another. They also remembered Jesus’ crucifixion, death, and resurrection in one very long and intense worship service, culminating at dawn, called Pascha. Eventually, the Church divided these into three days, called the Triduum. Together, they form the ancient and holy days of remembrance of the passion and resurrection of Christ. If you are able, I encourage you to attend worship for all three of these events, which are really three parts of one whole worship. When we walk with Christ through his last days, last acts, last words, his suffering, and his resurrection into new life, the full Easter story becomes illuminated and deeply rooted in our souls, and in our lives. We realize the depth of the kind of love Christ has for us. It is in the sacred rituals, not only in the words we read, or our thoughts about these events, that carry the power to help these realities sink very deeply into our lives, more and more each year that we live them. I hope you can join us at all of these worship services, but if you are unable, please spend significant time meditating upon each of these events. Make the greatest story ever told part of your own story, make the life of Christ ever more deeply part of your own life. As Christians, we are each grafted into the death of Christ, so that we are grafted into the resurrected life of Christ. May you walk this sacred journey and behold its magnificence! 

Maundy Thursday: Commemorating the Last Supper; remembering Jesus’ mandate to love one another; blessing of hands with oil for service.

Good Friday: Remembering Jesus’ arrest and sacrifice on the Cross. 

Easter Sunday: Celebration of Resurrection! 

God’s peace, 

Pastor Stephanie