Holy Week 2026
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Holy Week 2026

Whether this is your first or hundredth Holy Week, St. Luke’s warmly welcomes you as we keep these special days together. Holy Week is the church’s annual experience of the heart of the Christian faith. There ought to be no immersion into suffering without the gift of the resurrection, and there ought to be no Easter without Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. This three-day worship is sometimes called by its Latin name, the Triduum…

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Bound Together | Lent and Easter at St. Luke’s
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Bound Together | Lent and Easter at St. Luke’s

Worship this Lent focuses on the ways God binds us to one another — across difference, across doubt, across longing — and calls us into deeper love. As a quilt show fills our sanctuary with color, memory, and courage, we will draw on the wisdom of quilting and crafting: the patient stitching, the mending of torn places, the beauty made from scraps, and the strength found in pieces joined together. In this holy season of repentance and renewal, we discover how Christ gathers us — diverse, beloved, and unfinished — and binds us together for the healing of the world…

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Ash Wednesday, February 18
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Ash Wednesday, February 18

On Ash Wednesday, February 18, we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross of God’s love…

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Beloved Community | Worship in Time after Epiphany
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Beloved Community | Worship in Time after Epiphany

In Time after Epiphany, we see more clearly who God is—and who we are called to be. This series explores a vision of Beloved Community: a way of life grounded in God’s love, revealed in Jesus Christ, and lived out through justice, compassion, reconciliation, and shared responsibility…

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Las Posadas 2025
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Las Posadas 2025

For 12 years, the Logan Square Ecumenical Alliance (LSEA) has been gathering for a Las Posadas. Through song, street theatre, and public witness we remember the story of the Holy Family in search of shelter in Bethlehem, and we connect this story to the struggles of the holy people of our own time…

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