{"id":1743,"date":"2021-03-15T17:07:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estatechurches.org\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:33:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:33:14","slug":"worship-at-home-resources-for-holy-week-and-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estatechurches.org\/2021\/03\/worship-at-home-resources-for-holy-week-and-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship at Home Resources for Holy Week and Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Holy<\/p>\n

This time last year, we were trying to get our heads around not being in the church building for Holy Week and Easter.<\/p>\n

Actually, that\u2019s not quite right: we were trying to get our heads around not being able to gather for Holy Week and Easter. In Hodge Hill<\/a> in recent years, many of the ways we have journeyed together through Holy Week have happened in spaces other than the church building: Palm Sunday has included a raucous, rag-tag \u2018procession\u2019 across Hodge Hill Common; Holy Saturday evening has been around a fire-pit in one of the patches of local \u2018wasteland\u2019; and we\u2019ve greeted the Easter dawn by walking the Paschal candle through the streets of our estate, yelling \u2018Alleluia!\u2019 loudly on street corners. So what we missed, in Holy Week 2020, was even the opportunity to root the story of Jesus\u2019 passion and resurrection, together, in the ground of our neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

Our church community is well-connected in many ways, but not digitally. Only around 1\/3 of our congregation have been able to use Zoom over the past year, and fewer than that are on Facebook. And in line with our \u2018guiding principles\u2019 to shape our communal life during COVID, which we first articulated together in May 2020, we have resisted making our \u2018core activities\u2019 anything that we were not all able to participate in, in some way. So our default position has been (and remains) \u2018worship at home\u2019: a weekly worship pack delivered to doorsteps, and via email \/ Facebook \/ Whatsapp for those with access, for us all to use, \u2018together, apart\u2019. Soon after Easter, that was complemented by a weekly audio recording of readings and reflections, that could be accessed via a local phone number of downloaded as an MP3 file.<\/p>\n

\"Paschal<\/p>\n

The worship packs included relatively simple liturgies on paper, designed to be said by one person or more in a household, but the words were accompanied by physical resources, and suggestions for bodily actions and movement as well. Over the course of Holy Week and Easter, worshippers would have lit candles, held crosses, waved branches, kindled fires, held and decorated stones, and sent text messages or made phone calls to share an Easter greeting of joy and promise. They might have sat at their kitchen table, but also on their balcony or doorstep or in their garden (if they had one) \u2013 and gone for walks in our wider neighbourhood. We tried to use lots of pictures, and not too many words (we\u2019d all been bombarded with too many words already, even back then).<\/p>\n

We also wanted to recognise that the \u2018great interruption\u2019 that has been COVID-19* had done something very strange to our living-through-time. Lent had been interrupted by lockdown, and yet in a sense the deprivations of Lent were enduring well beyond Easter. Good Friday arrived on a particular day, and Easter Day followed two days later, and yet our lives, from the most local to the most global levels, seemed to be wave upon wave of \u2018Good Fridays\u2019, seemed often to be stuck in the waiting, grieving space of \u2018Holy Saturday\u2019 time, and \u2018Easter Day\u2019 was only ever arriving in the faintest, most elusive of ways. And so we offered liturgies for Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Dawn, with exactly the expectation that they would be used both on those particular days, and on days that felt like those days in the weeks and months to come.<\/p>\n

Revd Dr Al Barrett, vicar at Hodge Hill and author of the blog \u00a0This estate we’re in<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

To download the worship packs designed by Al for Holy Week and Easter click on the links below:<\/p>\n

Palm Sunday 2020 [home worship version]<\/a><\/p>\n

Reflective prayers for Maundy Thursday 2020 [worship at home]<\/a><\/p>\n

FRIDAY – Stations of the Cross (Koeder & O’Tuama)<\/a><\/p>\n

SATURDAY – Grieving & Waiting [worship at home]<\/a><\/p>\n

SUNDAY 1 – Greeting the Easter Dawn [worship at home]<\/a><\/p>\n

SUNDAY 2 – Eastertide booklet 2020 [worship at home]<\/a><\/p>\n

SUNDAY 3 – Emmaus Road reflection [worship at home]<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

* Ruth Harley and I explore this \u2018great interruption\u2019 further in our book, Being Interrupted: Re-imagining the Church\u2019s Mission from the Outside, In (SCM Press, 2020).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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