Holy Week and Easter

Against all common sense, in the bleakest of circumstances, life is breathed into a place that seems lifeless. The story of Easter is at the heart of the Christian faith, and each year Trinity Church moves through it slowly and deliberately.

Palm Sunday, April 13

Jesus enters Jerusalem triumphantly. Riding on a humble donkey, he is greeted by cheering crowds.

Holy Eucharist | 8am | 9am | 11:15am

Cross-Making Tutorial | 1pm

Solemne eucaristía y bendición de los ramos (en español) | 2pm

Special Compline by Candlelight | 7pm
St. Paul’s Chapel

Wednesday, April 16

With every step, Jesus draws closer to the cross. “Believe,” he tells his people urgently. “Believe in the light, so that you may become children of the light.”

Tenebrae | 6pm

Agape Meal | 7:30pm
Trinity Commons

Maundy Thursday, April 17

Jesus sits at the Passover table in a room filled with his closest friends. He gives them a new commandment: “Love one another.” Later that night, he is betrayed and arrested.

Noonday Prayer | 12:05pm

Holy Eucharist | 6pm

All-Night Vigil | 8pm–9am

Good Friday, April 18

Jesus is beaten, stands trial, and is sentenced to death. From the cross, alongside two criminals, he speaks, “It is finished,” and takes his last breath.

Liturgy of Good Friday | 12:05pm

Holy Saturday, April 19

Jesus’s body, anointed with spices and wrapped in a clean linen cloth, lies in a new tomb. A great stone covers the opening.

The Great Vigil of Easter | 8pm

Easter Sunday, April 20

The earth shakes. The stone rolls back. Jesus is here again, truly here. Death did not win.

Simple Holy Eucharist | 8am

Family-Friendly Festive Eucharist | 9am

Easter Egg Hunt | 10am

Festive Eucharist | 11am | 1pm

Solemne eucaristía de la resurrección del Señor (en español) | 3pm

Busqueda de huevos y celebración | 4pm

A person walks along the top of a sand dune, backlit by a bright sun shining on the horizon

A New Way to Think About Fasting During Lent

Fasting isn’t just about food. It’s also about attention: putting aside distracting habits to focus on what’s essential and true.

Lent with Kids: How to Start a New Family Tradition

Lent is full of opportunities for deeper connection with God. Here are some simple ways young families can prepare for Easter together.

Rays of sunlight across a leather-bound copy of The Book of Common Prayer

How Holy Week Services Help Us Walk With Jesus

We ground ourselves in the scriptural accounts of Jesus’s life because this ancient story reminds us death is not the final word.

Celebrate Easter at Trinity Church

Hear a personal invitation from Father Phil Jackson, Trinity’s rector, and Summerlee Staten, executive director of Faith Formation and Education, to walk with Trinity Church through Holy Week.

What Is Tenebrae?

This once-a-year liturgy has no direct connection to the scriptural accounts of Jesus’s final days yet encapsulates the entire story of Holy Week in one service. Father Michael Bird, Trinity’s vicar, explains how Tenebrae helps us center on the mystery, meaning, and majesty of this sacred time.

A lone figure walks in one direction while their reflection walks in the other direction

Faith EducationKathy Bozzuti-JonesApril 10, 2025

The Paradox of Being Human

The narrative arc of Palm Sunday invites us to sit with our dual natures: “The desire to connect and the impulse to resist,” writes Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, “coexist within us.”

Green leaves sprout from a barren branch as a magenta butterfly hovers nearby

Faith EducationSummerlee StatenApril 4, 2025

Death Is Not the Last Word

Our Gospel reading this week features a sweeping drama encapsulated in a dinner hosted by Lazarus, a man Jesus raised from the dead mere days before. “It is a story bathed in the light of a much greater revelation,” writes Summerlee Staten, “the truth that God is the God of resurrection,” not just for some, but for all who rest in Jesus.

A figure stands with open arms and hands while another figure draw close with head bowed

Faith EducationYein KimMarch 27, 2025

God’s Welcoming Embrace

What if the Parable of the Prodigal Son is actually about two brothers, the reckless and the rule-follower, each lost in his own way? We, too, lose our way searching for fulfillment in places we’ll never find it, writes the Rev. Yein Kim, “but God has already found us.”

A figure struggles to push a cart filled with seemingly heavy boxes while a figure of Jesus stands by, ready to help

Faith EducationPatrick HaleyMarch 21, 2025

Acknowledging Our Limits

In times of desperation, we often turn to self-preservation rather than surrender to God’s protection. “But just because we fail to recognize our need,” writes Patrick Haley, “doesn’t mean we need God any less.” Lent helps us see we can’t do it all on our own.

The shape of a globe, filled with images of newspaper headlines and a person staring at their phone, sits inside a cube

Faith EducationKathy Bozzuti-JonesMarch 13, 2025

Facing Our Fears

“In a world of assaults on human rights and liberties, in a world that serves up threat after threat to our very lives,” writes Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, we must face the despair around us head-on and boldly declare, “God is my light and my salvation, whom then shall I fear?”

A black-and-white photograph of a feather, inside which we see an etching of two figures comforting one another

Faith EducationSummerlee StatenMarch 6, 2025

In the Shelter of God’s Wing

When we allow ourselves to be enveloped in the refuge of God’s love no matter what’s happening around us, “we work to create a more just world from a posture of serenity, not fear,” writes Summerlee Staten.