Holy Week and Triduum 2024

Note: All live-streamed events are also viewable on the Seminary of the Southwest Facebook page.

Holy Tuesday (March 26, 2024)

Tenebrae, 7:00 p.m., Christ Chapel

This Tenebrae will be an abbreviated office structured around chanted psalms, readings, and responsories. The distinctive ceremonial of the service includes fifteen candles, ultimately symbolizing the triumph of Christ over evil and death.

Holy Wednesday (March 27, 2024)

Latinx concentration building alfombras, 2:00 p.m., in Christ Chapel

Maundy Thursday (March 28, 2024)

Noonday Prayer, 11:45 a.m., Christ Chapel, with the Exhortation

Maundy Thursday Holy Eucharist, 5:30 p.m., Christ Chapel

Preacher: Nancy Frausto

If you are serving as a minister for the service, please arrive at 4:45.

Click here to watch Maundy Thursday Livestream

Maundy Thursday Agape Meal, following Maundy Thursday service, Dining Hall

Join us for an Agape Meal after the Maundy Thursday service. We’ll enjoy a delicious meal with our families and friends. RSVP here for dinner

Maundy Thursday Watch 8pm – 8am, Christ Chapel

Following the Maundy Thursday service and Agape meal, an all-night vigil will be held in the chapel. You and members of your household are invited to symbolically keep watch with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane through the night in one-hour increments. Check upcoming emails for sign up information. Please consider signing up here for one of the open slots on the Maundy Thursday vigil. Even if two people have already signed up for a time slot, anyone is still welcome!

Good Friday (March 29, 2024)

No Office services today.

The Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday, 11:45 a.m., Christ Chapel

Preacher: Claire Colombo

If serving as a minister, please arrive at 10:45 a.m.

Vía Crucis, 1:30 p.m., at the Duval Landing

Pray the fourteen Stations of the Cross with a solemn bilingual service with movement and music. All community members are welcome — no knowledge of Spanish required.

Holy Saturday (March 30, 2024)

Holy Saturday Liturgy, 11:45 a.m., Christ Chapel

If serving as a minister, please arrive at 11:15 a.m.

The Great Vigil of Easter, 8:00 p.m., Christ Chapel

Preacher: The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge

If serving as a minister, please come to the rehearsal at 2:00 p.m.

Clergy from the Southwest community and others who would like to join should arrive at 7:15 p.m. in order to vest and line up for the procession. Clergy should bring a cassock, surplice, and while stole.

Bring your bells, whistles, horns, and other noisemakers for this service!

Easter Gala Celebration, immediately following the Great Vigil of Easter, Weeks Center/the Motte

Christ is risen! Let’s feast!

Easter (March 31, 2024)

Easter Monday (April 1, 2024)

No classes

Community Crawfish Boil and Potluck, 3:00pm, on the Motte

Tuesday of Easter Week (April 2, 2024)

Community Eucharist, 11:45 a.m., Christ Chapel

As we are off on Monday, this will be our festal Easter celebration followed by Assembly.