For the past few years, we’ve been live streaming Evening Prayer on our Facebook page each Wednesday during Lent. This year, since we are unable to worship in person, we thought it would be helpful to continue this practice even now that Lent is over and we are in the season of Easter. I hope you’ll join us.
We will begin at 6:15 pm with an extended organ meditation presented by our organist and choirmaster Jason Pace. At 6:30, we will join together for the reading of God’s Word and to pray for our community and the world. At the conclusion of the prayers, Stephanie will give a short homily. You’re welcome to watch live, or catch up at anytime on our Facebook page. The links for the text of each week’s liturgy are included in the Thursday email.
I love Evening Prayer and I think you’ll love it, too. The daily Scripture readings, the passages laid out in the cycle for that day, come alive in new ways because of fleeting context. What has happened that day, what is on my mind, the worries and burdens I’m carrying all inform my hearing of the Scripture.
For hundreds of years, Anglicans have been raising their voice, praying in communion with those around us, those who came before us, and those who will come after us, using the same (or similar) words. These ancient prayers remind us that we are part of something larger than ourselves, the body of Christ which is moving through time.
As we move toward the Day of Pentecost in late May, we will join other Anglicans throughout the communion in the way they pray by using some other versions of the Evening Prayer liturgy. Please join us. Go to https://www.facebook.com/nativityonline