Here you will find an outline of the liturgical year, the most current versions of all liturgies, “ingredient lists” (candles, dances, and other details) for all of Church of the Servant’s worship services. It is a work in progress. Email Greg Scheer if you have any questions.

Notes: a spreadsheet of all liturgies is available at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pp7Q_4u5DEP2GQ3unG980Kw. You can navigate to different liturgical seasons using the tabs in the upper left hand corner. If you’re interested in reading an overview of the church year, visit the “Happy New Year!” Liturgy Lesson. If you need to know who’s doing what when, visit the online COS worship schedule. For lectionary Psalm resources, check out Lectionary Psalms: A Worship Music Planner’s Guide.

Seasons and Services

• Advent The four Sundays leading up to Christmas
  • Lessons & Carols (6pm) Usually held on the Sunday after the Calvin L&C
  • Christmas Eve (5pm) A family-friendly service that often includes drama
  • Christmas Eve (11pm) Traditional candlelight service
  • Christmas Day (10am) Relaxed family-friendly service with lots of carol singing
• Christmastide The services that fall within the “12 days of Christmas”
  • New Year’s Eve (7pm) A service of remembrance
• Epiphany 5-7 weeks celebrating Christ’s childhood and ministry
  
• Lent 6 weeks of penitence leading to the cross
  • Ash Wednesday (7pm) Remember our mortality, including the imposition of ashes
  • Maundy Thursday (7pm) A service of the upper room that may include passover and tenebrae elements
  • Good Friday (12:15pm) A short services of readings from the cross, usually with dancers
• Eastertide 7 Sundays following Easter
  • Easter evening testimony service (6pm)
  • Ascension Sunday – we don’t celebrate Ascension differently than any other Sunday in Eastertide, but that’s not to say that we can’t
• Pentecost Season Pentecost Sunday, followed by two different liturgies, each used for 5-9 weeks
  • Pentecost evening testimony service (6pm)
    
• Trinity Season Two liturgies that last 5-9 weeks each
  • Thanksgiving (10am)

• Periodic services and service elements
  • Family Communion
  • Baptism
  • Commissioning
  • Profession of Faith