Vigil of Easter 2020

Night three of the “Triduum Tour,” broadcast from my own congregation — St. John’s Lutheran in Schuyler. The Easter Vigil is one of my absolute favorite services of the entire liturgical year. It is a glorious celebration with fire and water, sacrament and story and song. In some ways, it’s kind of like “Easter Eve” — an Easter version of Christmas Eve — except the Vigil actually predates Christmas Eve and is the inspiration for rituals commonly associated with Christmas Eve. Click here to see the digital bulletin.

Facebook Live video of the service
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Published by Day Hefner

Day Hefner is the pastor of Spirit of Hope Lutheran Church in Lincoln, NE, a congregation of the Nebraska Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). A native of Nebraska, Day originally hails from the village of Coleridge, has a degree in music from Nebraska Wesleyan University and previously served as a Nebraska Synod staff member in Omaha. Day is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, fluent in Spanish (and English!), and graduated from the Lutheran School of Theoloy at Chicago (LSTC) with a Hispanic ministry emphasis. She is excited to be called to the messiness of being church in the 21st century — to help the church reconnect with a world hungry for the unconditional love and grace it has to share — and to explore with curiosity, hope, creativity, and compassion the new things God is calling into being. Day is particularly known for her big laugh, her love of cats, and her total lack of control around craft supplies.

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