Lent is the forty-day season of the church year beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Easter Morning. It takes its name from an ancient Anglo-Saxon word referring to the lengthening of the daylight hours over the season’s seven weeks. It is a welcomed season of growth after the cold, dark winter. - Growth in the natural world, but also a parallel growth that can happen in the spiritual dimension of our lives.

     Lent has traditionally been a season of preparation and self-examination as we reflect on Good Friday’s cross and anticipate Easter’s resurrection. During these weeks, we are invited to a more deliberate and disciplined practice of prayer, worship, study, and service. 

Konnoak Hills Moravian 2025

Dates and activities to be posted closer to the season of Lent.

Provincial Day of Prayer Services 2025

Different Moravian Churches host the Day of Prayer Services each Wednesday during Lent. The schedule for 2025 should be available by mid-February and will be shared here.

      Beginning April 13, Palm Sunday, we will gather each evening at 7:00 for Holy Week Reading Services. Copies of Readings for Holy Week, the story of the events leading to the Crucifixion and Resurrection taken from the four Gospels, will be available at each service.

      On Maundy Thursday, April 17th, we will celebrate the Holy Communion on the anniversary of the night the Savior shared his last meal before his death.

     On Good Friday, April 18, the death of Jesus will be observed with the sharing of the Lovefeast and the reading of the death passages from Readings for Holy Week.

     The April 19^th Great Sabbath observance of Jesus’ rest in the grave will draw many of us to God’s Acre at 9:00 a.m. to tend the graves of those who have preceded us in death. Our band will play chorales from the copula of the Archives Building in the morning. In the evening, the Great Sabbath Service of Music sponsored by the twelve churches of Salem Congregation will begin at 7:00 at Home Moravian Church.

     The Easter Sunrise Service will begin early Sunday morning, April 20th, in the pre-dawn hour on Salem Square. The Chair of the Salem Congregation Board of Elders, will preside at the service, beginning at 6:15am. The celebration will continue with the 10:00 Resurrection Day service of worship in our sanctuary. (There will be no Sunday school on this day.)