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"Still Hopes Episcopal Retirement Community West Columbia, SC is a faith based community. We do follow the Episcopal Church Year. For the past several weeks we have been observing the season of Lent, which commemorates our Lord’s Ministry on earth, and culminates this week in the events of Holy Week, and begins the season of Easter.
Lent is a period of 40 days before Easter during which many Christians do not eat certain foods or do certain pleasurable activities as a way of remembering the suffering of Jesus Christ
Our observance of Holy Week includes Maundy Thursday (where we commemorate our Lord’s institution of the Eucharist (Holy Communion) and the washing of the feet of the apostles by Jesus). We will have a service of Holy Communion, foot washing, and the stripping of the sanctuary in preparation of Good Friday. Our Maundy Thursday service will be held in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at 4:00 pm on Thursday.
On Good Friday we, along with Christians worldwide, commemorate the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. His death of the cross was the great event by which Christ paid the ultimate price for the sins of all humanity: yours, mine and everyone’s!
The Good Friday service will be held in the chapel of the Holy Spirit on Friday at 4:00pm.
Our celebration of Easter commemorates our Lord’s resurrection from the dead-and shows that our God cannot be held by death, once we Christians are made his sons and daughters through Holy Baptism, and therefore are inheritors of His Kingdom-neither does the grave have the final say over us. This begins the great fifty-day celebration of Christians around the world. Easter service will be held in the chapel at 11:00 on Sunday.
Our Lenten Study this year “Give Up Something Bad for Lent” was well attended and those who came seemed to really enjoy it! Look for more to come and please let me know if you would like to study a particular subject—I take requests!"
- Fr. Richard Crozier, Still Hopes Chaplain