How many Protestant churches observe Holy Week?

[JonNC]

In our LCMS Lutheran church we will have a Maundy Thursday service, Tenebrae on Good Friday, Easter Vigil on Saturday night and Easter service on Sunday.

On Palm Sunday, we had our city’s 90th Prayers for the City gathering at city Hall which ocurred before our 10:30 service; I have to say that the Catholic church’s group was most impressive, marching up to the City Hall square with drums!

The Episcopal church had congregants with kites and banners. Our Lutherans were rather plain in comparison - but the prayers of all were moving and beautiful to hear. May God have mercy on our city.

Not surprising here. The frozen chosen, we are.

Jon

 

[mrsdizzyd]

None of the Baptist churches I’ve ever been to have. They celebrate Palm Sunday but not in the way Catholics do. I was amazed at the Palm Sunday mass today as it was first Catholic Palm Sunday mass I’ve ever been to. The Baptist services say, “Hey, it’s Palm Sunday” but nothing in their services have anything to do with it except for the occasional fake palm tree at the altar. I loved that everything at mass today had to do with Palm Sunday.

Well, as you know, Baptists don’t have set liturgies, so it’s going to be different. At church yesterday, the sermon was centered on Palm Sunday and what it means. Perhaps it was just the church you went to?

 

[sjosleyn08]

Well, as you know, Baptists don’t have set liturgies, so it’s going to be different. At church yesterday, the sermon was centered on Palm Sunday and what it means. Perhaps it was just the church you went to?

I’ve been to 3 different Baptist churches and they’ve all been almost the same.

 

[Kristin234]

PJM, thank you for supplying us with those lovely verses that most of us have read hundreds of times.

Anyway, my church has Palm Sunday. They do Bible readings for 6 straight hours the rest of the week and anyone who wants to come in and listen is welcome. We also do washing of the feet, a Good Friday service, and of course an Easter service.

 

[mrsdizzyd]

I’ve been to 3 different Baptist churches and they’ve all been almost the same.

That’s too bad. I’ve been to several different Baptist churches as I’ve moved across the USA and all have had a Palm Sunday related sermon. I wonder if it makes a difference that these were historically African American congregations…

Actually, the church I am attending now is participating in a citywide Baptist Minister’s Union Holy Week celebration. There will be a service every evening including a Good Friday service, a Vigil on Saturday, and a sunrise service on Easter. I’ve never encountered this before.

 

[CMatt25]

Pretty much how it was at my church. The only thing remotely close to being liturgical were candle light vigil services for Christmas. Someone would hand out palm fronds on Palm Sunday, then of course for Easter you had the dreaded “sun rise services.”

What’s to dread about them other than the time of day one must awaken to get ready and then to arrive in time? I’m just curious because I’ve always thought it would be nice to attend one otherwise.

3 Roman Catholic parishes near me have outdoor sunrise Masses. One by their pond. One at their grotto. A 3rd outside between their church and office. Lawn chairs welcome. The Disciples of Christ have one at the beach. There is also an ecumenical service at another beach where this yr the Methodist pastor is preaching the sermon and the Episcopal church’s jazz ensemble is performing the music. There may be others but those are the ones I’m familiar with.

 

[CMatt25]

As you see from the posts many do. The nearest Disciples of Christ church to me I know will have a service Thurs and their sanctuary open during the day Friday for individual prayer and communion. Peace.

 

[andrewstx]

I’ve seen veiled crucifixes. Plain ones, no.

Could be, I guess. One never knows about Anglicans.

GKC

I beleive the diocese of Northwest Texas where this is has historically been low church, for example the first bishop would not allow chasubles, just surplice and stole, and this was in the 50s.

The mission where I was confirmed had a Christus Rex, but that is rare here.

The parish I went to last has statues, a crucifix over the altar in the baptistry, stations of the cross. But over the high altar hangs a plain cross. On Good Friday they venerate a plain cross with no corpus.

With following bishops the churchmanship has risen and now the clergy wear eucharistic vestments, but even in high church parishes the plain cross still rules.

Personally I think it odd when a plain cross is censed, but as you say the Episcopalians are a motley crew.

 

[GKC]

I beleive the diocese of Northwest Texas where this is has historically been low church, for example the first bishop would not allow chasubles, just surplice and stole, and this was in the 50s.

The mission where I was confirmed had a Christus Rex, but that is rare here.

The parish I went to last has statues, a crucifix over the altar in the baptistry, stations of the cross. But over the high altar hangs a plain cross. On Good Friday they venerate a plain cross with no corpus.

With following bishops the churchmanship has risen and now the clergy wear eucharistic vestments, but even in high church parishes the plain cross still rules.

Personally I think it odd when a plain cross is censed, but as you say the Episcopalians are a motley crew.

That they are.

That being said, the most likely place I would expected to have seen a cross sans corpus would be in a REC parish. Again, I’ve never seen such in my area.

But nothing surprises me.

My parish is Continuing Anglican, and we have 4 crucifixes in the nave, the altar one being iconic, the processional being Christus Rex.

GKC

 

[CMatt25]

But nothing surprises me.

My parish is Continuing Anglican, and we have 4 crucifixes in the nave, the altar one being iconic, the processional being Christus Rex.

GKC

I was surprised the Roman Catholic church I attended a weekday morning Mass at last wk did not have a crucifix or a cross above the altar. There was a small one off to the side. I’ve been to many a Catholic churches in my lifetime and had never seen that before. I actually liked the interior of the church though.

 

[Sparrowhawk1161]

ALL PROTESTANT CHURCHES OBSERVE HOLY WEEK.

I don’t think that any protestant church does not observe holy week. This is the key time of all christianb denominations… the time when Jesus took all our sins and layed them on the cross with him so we may have eternal life.

One thing that protestants do is recognize Christams, the birth of Jesus and Easter, when Christ rose…

 

[Jason_Firestone]

I’ve seen veiled crucifixes. Plain ones, no.

Could be, I guess. One never knows about Anglicans.

GKC

Plain ones… yes. No corpus, ever. Gold and expensive, maybe, maybe not.
The Epicopal Cathedral here, does not use the Liturgy from the Book of Common Prayer. One of the Classics Professors, who is also a priest, (and is listed in the top 10 preachers in the country), does his annual “Seven Last Words” … new every year. Breathtaking, riveting. (and no communion service). The only sermon I can sit for two and a half hours through.

 

[GKC]

Plain ones… yes. No corpus, ever. Gold and expensive, maybe, maybe not.
The Epicopal Cathedral here, does not use the Liturgy from the Book of Common Prayer. One of the Classics Professors, who is also a priest, (and is listed in the top 10 preachers in the country), does his annual “Seven Last Words” … new every year. Breathtaking, riveting. (and no communion service). The only sermon I can sit for two and a half hours through.

That they do not use the BCP, or some variant thereof, doesn’t surprise me greatly. Do you know what is used?

Corpus is the norm in every Anglican church I have been in. But mileage obviously varies.

GKC

 

[andrewstx]

ALL PROTESTANT CHURCHES OBSERVE HOLY WEEK.

I don’t think that any protestant church does not observe holy week. This is the key time of all christianb denominations… the time when Jesus took all our sins and layed them on the cross with him so we may have eternal life.

One thing that protestants do is recognize Christams, the birth of Jesus and Easter, when Christ rose…

The so called “church of Christ” the most Protestant denomination in existence does not observe holy week or any other Christian days or seasons. By them each day is the same as the one before and next, except Sunday.

 

[andrewstx]

Plain ones… yes. No corpus, ever. Gold and expensive, maybe, maybe not.
The Epicopal Cathedral here, does not use the Liturgy from the Book of Common Prayer. One of the Classics Professors, who is also a priest, (and is listed in the top 10 preachers in the country), does his annual “Seven Last Words” … new every year. Breathtaking, riveting. (and no communion service). The only sermon I can sit for two and a half hours through.

Mass or Holy Communion is celebrated in no Episcopal/Anglican churches anywhere Good Friday. They often give communion from the reserved sacrament in the tabernacle.