Celebrating the Cross and Resurrection
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu
PALM SUNDAY † Sunday, March 28 |
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| 10:00 am |
PROCESSION WITH PALMS AND HOLY COMMUNIONThe service moves from the commemoration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem to the reading of the story of Jesus’ passion and death in the Gospel according to St. Mark. Music by Georg Friedrich Händel, Juan Bautista Comes, and Ginés Pérez. List of music for this service |
MAUNDY THURSDAY † Thursday, April 1 |
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| 7:30 pm |
CHORAL EUCHARIST AND MAUNDY LITURGYA joyous celebration of the Eucharist meal quickly changes to one of love through humility in the washing of feet. The service concludes with the stripping of the altar, dramatizing Christ’s betrayal, stripping, and mocking by his captors. Music by the Taizé Community, Peter Hallock, and Johann Michael Haydn. List of music for this service |
GOOD FRIDAY † Friday, April 2 |
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| 7:30 pm |
GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY AND ADORATION OF THE CRUCIFIEDThis service celebrates the triumph of the cross. The service features the singing of the Passion Gospel and concludes with prayer around the cross. Music includes Zachary Wadsworth’s setting of the St. John Passion and motets by Sergei Rachmaninov and Nikolay Kedrov. List of music for this service |
EASTER EVE † Saturday, April 3 |
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| 7:30 pm |
EASTER VIGIL AND SOLEMN CHORAL EUCHARISTKindling of a new fire, the story of deliverance from the Hebrew Scriptures, and renewal of Baptismal promises lead to the proclamation of Easter Victory and a joyous celebration of Holy Communion. Music by Alexander Gretchaninoff and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. List of music for this service |
EASTER SUNDAY † Sunday, April 4 |
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| 10:00 am |
FESTIVAL CHORAL EUCHARISTWe celebrate the empty tomb, the central mystery that through death comes new life. Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed! Festive music for Easter including A Little Jazz Mass by Bob Chilcott. List of music for this service |
| 7:30 pm |
EASTER COMPLINEContemplative Easter meditation offered by the LCH Men’s Schola. Candlelight illuminates the Nave for this short service of prayer, chant, and a cappella singing. List of music for this service |
The Reverend Jeff Lilley, Pastor † Bree Lloyd, Vicar † Scott Fikse, Director of Music and Liturgy
Please join us for streaming midweek Lenten services. Holden Evening prayer will begin at 7:00 on Wednesday evenings during Lent with the theme “From Darkness into Light.” Each service will approach the theme from a different perspective including spirituality, care of earth, and mental health using music, imagery, art, and proclamation to draw us deeper into God’s presence. Members of Writers’ Workshop will provide much of the proclamation texts.
The season of Lent begins with a very special worship on Ash Wednesday. This beautiful evening service begins the Lenten season of reflection, prayer, and preparation as we hear the words from Genesis 3:19, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Physical distancing keeps us from receiving ashes, a sign of mourning and repentance, on our foreheads this year. But we are reminded of our mortality through the cross, a sign of promise, and life, and hope. Ash Wednesday—and the whole season of Lent—calls us to reflect and remember the precious gift of life and love that God has given us in creation and community and to re-center our thoughts and spirit on what truly matters. We recall that our mortality is joined to God’s forever in Christ, and remember that together we share the joy of life with all of God’s world.
We warmly invite all people in all places of faith and life to Compline. Offered on the first and third Sundays of each month, this beautiful candle-lit service is a meditative experience of a cappella singing and chanting to commemorate the day’s end, featuring the LCH Men’s Schola. Musical selections include Gregorian chant, Taizé chant, Renaissance polyphony, and more.
LCH is taking a break from our traditional German service this year. Instead, join us for a short service of music and prayer in English and Hawaiian to celebrate and welcome the New Year.
Join the LCH family for an evening devotional of art, music, poems, and prayers, featuring readers from the LCH Women’s Book Club and members of the LCH Choir. The event sums up of the themes of Advent and Christmas. To the traditions of the antiphons and the wreath, we add the richness of poetic voices and music and take a little quiet time to reflect on the meaning of these symbols of our faith.
Lutheran Church of Honolulu’s Advent Procession has been a Hawai‘i tradition since 1975. We come to the end of Kingdomtide (Time after Pentecost) and begin a new liturgical cycle with a service that melds music and word. This year we’ve adapted our service for the livestream setting as we offer The O Antiphons by Peter Hallock, invoking ancient titles of Christ through choral music. If one looks at the first letter of each antiphon in Latin — Emmanuel, Rex, Oriens, Clavis, Radix, Adonai, and Sapientia — it spells the Latin phrase ero cras, which translates, “Tomorrow, I will come.”