Welcome to Life Renewed: Lent 2025 at St. John’s. Lent is a season of lengthening days, the gift of time stretching toward life. Time to prepare to be born anew by water and the Spirit. Time to practice the way of Jesus, to tend the earth, to remember the poor, to do the things that make for peace. Time to turn and return to God who is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. (adapted from Worship Guidebook for Lent and the Three Days, Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2009, page 17)
This Lent, be renewed in worship, Bible study, and fellowship opportunities with your St. John’s family and our ministry partners and friends through Albany Lutherans Together.
Ash Wednesday + March 5
12:00 p.m. (in person)
Spoken Eucharist with the Imposition of Ashes with a light luncheon following
7:00 p.m. (in person & livestreamed)
Choral Eucharist with the Imposition of Ashes and Saint John’s Collegium
Sundays in Lent + March 9 – April 6
9:30 a.m. (in person & livestreamed)
Holy Eucharist with Saint John’s Collegium
Mondays in Lent + March 3 – April 7
7:00 p.m. (Zoom)
Bible Study with Holy Trinity, Bellerose:
Entering the Passion of Jesus
Wednesdays in Lent + March 12 – April 9
6:00 p.m. (in person)
Supper (vegetarian & gluten-free options available)
6:45 p.m. (in person & Zoom)
Holden Evening Prayer
Location varies by week. See our calendar for details.
Palm Sunday + April 13
9:30 a.m. (in person & livestreamed)
Choral Eucharist with palm procession, the passion according to Saint Luke, and special music by Saint John’s Collegium
Holy Wednesday + April 16
12:00 p.m. (in person)
Stations of the Cross (spoken)
Maundy Thursday + April 17
12:00 p.m. (in person)
Spoken Eucharist with a light luncheon following
7:00 p.m. (in person & livestreamed)
Choral Eucharist with the laying on of hands, footwashing, stripping of the altar, and Saint John’s Collegium
Good Friday + April 18
12:00 p.m. (in person)
Ecumenical service with the Capital Area Council of Churches at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 10 N. Main Ave., Albany (will also be livestreamed on the CACC Facebook page)
7:00 p.m. (in person & livestreamed)
Liturgy of Good Friday with the passion according to Saint Luke, veneration of the cross, and Saint John’s Collegium
Great Vigil of Easter + April 19
7:00 p.m. (in person & Zoom)
This is the night! New fire, stories by candlelight, the first Eucharist of Easter, and a festive reception. Hosted at Good Shepherd, 510 Albany Shaker Rd., Loudonville.
Easter Sunday + April 20
9:30 a.m. (in person & livestreamed)
Festival Eucharist with Saint John’s Collegium
All liturgies are held in person at 303 Sand Creek Road, Albany, New York, and broadcast on YouTube, unless otherwise noted.
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St. John’s is a Reconciling in Christ community of faith. Trusting in the extravagant grace of God that sets us free, we affirm the sacred worth and dignity of our siblings in Christ – of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, racial and ethnic identities, ages, abilities, and socio-economic statuses. We confess the church’s complicity in systems that harm God’s people, including homophobia and transphobia, sexism, racism and white supremacy, and ableism. Together, as a community of Jesus followers, rooted in grace, we commit ourselves to the work of racial equity and anti-racism and to confronting and dismantling all systems of injustice and oppression in all we do and say. We invite persons of all backgrounds and faiths (or none at all) to join us for these holy days.
