Holy Week Schedule
Palm Sunday | April 13
8:00 AM The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday, Rite I | Church
Holy Eucharist with hymns.
10:00 AM The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday, Rite II | Church
Choral Eucharist will include music by Palmer’s adult choir.
MAUNDY THURSDAY | April 17
5:30 PM Holy Week Wonderings in the Holy Cross Children’s Room
This is an opportunity for children to ask questions about the meaning of Holy Week.
6:00 PM Light Dinner in St. Bede's Chapel
We will begin the evening with a light soup dinner gathered together in St. Bede's Chapel.
7:00 PM Holy Eucharist, Rite I | Church *
This service, when we remember the institution of the Lord’s Supper, will include the optional washing of feet. It will conclude in silence with the stripping of the altar.
8:00 PM All Night Vigil – Altar of Repose | St. Bede’s Chapel
You are invited to spend part of this night in prayer at Palmer as Jesus invited his disciples to do so in the Garden of Gethsemane. Special music will be offered in the chapel 8:00-9:00 PM on Thursday night and 7:00-8:00 AM on Friday morning.
GOOD FRIDAY | April 18
NOON Good Friday Liturgy | Church
Street parking on Main Street will be available for this service by obtaining a permit from the officer by the welcome tent.
1:15 PM Stations of the Cross | Church
7:00 PM Le Chemin de la Croix | Church*
Palmer’s Organist and Artist-in-Residence, Ken Cowan, will play Marcel Dupré’s Le Chemin de la Croix (Stations of the Cross) on our Fisk organ. The poetry of Paul Claudel, read by Carol Streatfeild, will accompany the music.
HOLY SATURDAY | April 19
10:00 AM “Easter Grace Gardens” | Courtyard
Everything will be provided, but you may also bring a flowerpot or shallow dish to fill.
7:00 PM The Great Vigil & First Eucharist of Easter, Rite II | Church
This Festival Choral Eucharist will include music by Palmer’s adult and children's choirs.
EASTER DAY | April 20
9:00 AM The Third Eucharist of Easter, Rite II | Church *
This Festival Choral Eucharist will include music by Palmer’s adult choir.
11:15 AM The Fourth Eucharist of Easter, Rite I | Church *
This Festival Choral Eucharist will include music by Palmer’s adult choir.
Free parking will be available in the parking lot to the north of Palmer’s campus on the mornings of Palm Sunday and Easter Day, although cars will not be allowed to remain in that north lot in the afternoon following the congregational photo on Palm Sunday or after the end of the 11:00 AM worship service on Easter Day. Free parking will also be available in the parking lot to the south of Palmer’s campus, along the Palmer side of Main Street, and on the other side of Main Street at Rice University in the Founder’s Court parking lot. For information about where the Founder’s Court parking lot is located and how to take advantage of that offer, please use the following link to the Welcome Page on the church website, which also includes details about options for paid parking in the parking garages at Rice University’s Cambridge Office Building and Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza: https://palmerchurch.org/welcome/