The Nun Who Gave Us Holy Week

This Sunday is Palm Sunday and from that day through Easter, on the following Sunday, King of Peace will hold daily services following the pattern of Holy Week. This practice came about through the work of a Bishop of Jerusalem and a fifth century Spanish Nun who wrote of his liturgies for the folks back home. Egeria was her name and she was an upper-class Roman convert to Christianity.

She wrote to her sister nuns back in northwestern Spain during a three-year pilgrimage through what is now Egypt, Israel, and Syria. Along the way, she described the biblical sites, the convents she visited and most importantly the worship she found in the Holy Land in the late fourth-century. Her diary served as primary source material for our Holy Week liturgies. She was as one writer has described her, "an unusual candidate for sainthood: an adventurous woman of means whose curiosity matched her piety."

To read Egeria for yourself (and her descriptions are full of enough detail to give you a sense of place without being too long), check out this page Egeria's Pilgrimage.

Today at King of Peace
Looking for a taste of what Egeria experienced. Today at King of Peace we'll have the Friday noon Eucharist, then at 5:30 p.m. we'll pray the Stations of the Cross, at 6 p.m. we'll have a sung Evening prayer. At 6:30 p.m., we'll enjoy Fish 'n Chips with good food for just $5 each. And finally from 7:30-8:30 p.m. we will have a prayer vigil for Lavaughn and for others in need of our healing prayers. Here are photos of our Fish 'n Chips FryDay in February.

Then join us Sunday at 8:30 or 10 a.m. as we make the palm procession which begins Holy Week.