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Jun
8

Pentecost Sunday (combined service)

Join us for a combined Pentecost Sunday service and potluck!

In the Christian tradition, Pentecost is now the seventh Sunday after Easter. It emphasizes that the church is understood as the body of Christ which is drawn together and given life by the Holy Spirit. Some understand Pentecost to be the origin and sending out of the church into the world. The Day of Pentecost is one of the seven principal feasts of the church year in the Episcopal Church (BCP, p. 15).

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May
14

Constructing Faith: Christ & Scripture

Join us on May 14 for dinner and an evening of open discussion about the nature and role of scripture in the Christian life. What is the Bible? How should we read it? How should we *not* read it? How is it connected to Christ, who the Church insists is the ‘Word of God’ in human flesh?

Come with your questions and confusions about scripture as we explore this primary foundational layer of our life together in the Church. This evening is open to everyone but may prove particularly helpful for those who are new to Christianity, the Church, the Episcopal Church, or Church of the Advent in particular.

Dinner provided — RSVP with Jacob at jtaylor@adventcincy.org.

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Apr
19

Easter Vigil

The liturgy intended as the first (and arguably, the primary) celebration of Easter in the BCP (pp. 284-95). It is also known as the Great Vigil. The service begins in darkness, sometime between sunset on Holy Saturday and sunrise on Easter, and consists of four parts: The Service of Light (kindling of new fire, lighting the Paschal candle, the Exsultet); The Service of Lessons (readings from the Hebrew Scriptures interspersed with psalms, canticles, and prayers); Christian Initiation (Holy Baptism) or the Renewal of Baptismal Vows; and the Eucharist. Through this liturgy, the BCP recovers an ancient practice of keeping the Easter feast. Believers would gather in the hours of darkness ending at dawn on Easter to hear scripture and offer prayer. This night-long service of prayerful watching anticipated the baptisms that would come at first light and the Easter Eucharist. Easter was the primary baptismal occasion for the early church to the practical exclusion of all others. This practice linked the meanings of Christ's dying and rising to the understanding of baptism. (from The Episcopal Church website here).

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Apr
18

Good Friday

Join us for a Good Friday quiet, contemplative prayer service in the sanctuary.

More about Good Friday:

The Friday before Easter Day, on which the church commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus. It is a day of fasting and special acts of discipline and self-denial. In the early church candidates for baptism, joined by others, fasted for a day or two before the Paschal feast. In the west the first of those days eventually acquired the character of historical reenactment of the passion and death of Christ. The liturgy of the day includes John's account of the Passion gospel, a solemn form of intercession known as the solemn collects (dating from ancient Rome), and optional devotions before the cross (commonly known as the veneration of the cross). The eucharist is not celebrated in the Episcopal Church on Good Friday, but Holy Communion may be administered from the reserved sacrament at the Good Friday service.

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