Holy Week & Easter
Christ has died. Christ has risen.
Holy Week & Easter
Christ has died.
Christ has risen.

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Holy Week 2024

Holy Week Worship Opportunities

Palm Sunday, March 24th, marks the end of our Lenten journey and the beginning of Holy Week when we embark on a sacred journey as we prepare our hearts and minds to reflect on the profound events of Jesus' final days. Join us this week to contemplate themes of love, sacrifice, and hope.

Upcoming Events

Lifetime Learning Institute: The Banality of Evil
Date 03/19/2024 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Center for Creative Education
03/19/2024 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Center for Creative Education
03/20/2024 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Being With: Exploring Our Faith
03/20/2024 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Kids Learning Hip-Hop Dance MOves

Center for Creative Education launches satellite afterschool program in New Paltz

(HUDSON VALLEY ONE) Unless you’re a rank newcomer to Ulster County, you’ve heard about the Center for Creative Education (CCE). The highly esteemed not-for-profit organization, whose mission is “to enrich the social and cultural awareness of our youth and community through arts, wellness and education,” has been making its mark for 35 years now. If you’ve been to a parade or other mass public event in these parts, the odds are high that you’ve seen and heard the Percussion Orchestra of Kingston (POOK) and the Energy Dance Company in action. The Energy dancers have performed everywhere from Jacob’s Pillow to the Apollo Theater to the United Nations and won a long list of regional and national awards. CCE itself was the 2021 honoree for Mohonk Consultations’ 2021 Distinguished Achievement Award.

HolyWeek

  • Homily for Palm Passion Sunday 2018

    Palm/Passion Sunday can be jarring, jolting even as we move quickly from joining the crowds cheering Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem to joining the crowds crying “crucify him, crucify

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  • Silence

    Silence
    And nothing more
    Silence
    And the end has come
    Silence

    The end of Jesus’ earthly journey has come. The time of God - walking fully human on earth - has

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  • Easter Dawn

    We have come to the Easter Dawn!

    Sure, the actual dawn isn’t for another 10 or 12 hours, but that’s a technicality.

    We have come to the dawn of our Savior’s resurrection.

  • Invitation to Renewal

    A beautiful red cardinal landed under a nearby shrub as I was hustling the kids out the door to school one morning this winter. It only registered with me a few hours later that I‘d seen this

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  • Faith Planted Through The Cross

    There is nothing more important than the gift of faith that God in Christ makes possible through the cross.

    The “Hosannas” of Palm/Passion Sunday, which do so quickly change to cries of

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  • Here, Now, Again

    Tonight we begin the Triduum, or worship in three parts over three days that is Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil. We have, with God’s help, moved along our Lenten journey of God

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  • Letting It All Go

    It’s time to let it all go.
    It’s time to let everything go.

    It’s time to let go of our worries and our fears and our guilt. It’s time to let go of selfishness and greed. It’s time

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  • Christ is Risen Indeed! (2019 Easter Vigil Homily)

    Christ is Risen! Alleluia! Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!

    I was catching up with my old friend Mary Ellen not long ago. She’s one of those friends, you know the kind - who know you so

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  • The Magnificent Story of Jesus' Resurrection

    Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
    Christ is risen indeed, alleluia!

    This magnificent story of Jesus’ resurrection, that starts with the line “Early on the first day of the week, while it

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  • Why Are We Rushing Around?

    I read some years ago that the reason that the Church celebrates Palm/Passion Sunday - where we move from joyous hosannas quickly, abruptly to the cries of “crucify him” - all in one worship

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