St. Mary's Episcopal Church
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  • Worship
    • Worship Schedule
    • Sermons
    • Church Calendar
    • Recordings and Service Bulletins
    • Marian Antiphons
  • Holy Week and Easter
  • About Us
    • Who We Are
    • What We Believe >
      • The Sacraments
    • Membership
    • Our Leadership
    • Our Ministries
    • Our History
    • Weddings
    • Photos
    • St. Mary's Pipe Organ
  • News
    • Weekly Newsletter
    • Calendar
  • Contact Us
    • Contact Us
    • Parish Email List
  • Support St. Mary's
    • Donate
    • Pledge Card
  • Partners
    • William Baker Festival Singers
  • Links

Holy Week 2023

Commemorate the holiest week of the year and walk with Jesus as he makes his way to the cross. Enter Jerusalem with Jesus on Palm Sunday. Remember the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday. Keep watch with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Behold Christ crucified on Good Friday. Be led from darkness into light at the Great Vigil of Easter.

All liturgies will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel here.


The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday
April 2, 2023

8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
10:00 a.m.  - Solemn Mass with Procession
Music: St. Matthew's Passion, Victoria; Offertorium in Dominica Palmarum from Caecilia, Franz Xaver Witt; O Vos Omnes, Charpantier; Mass setting after Leo Hassler, McGregor/Wilcken


Holy Monday and Tuesday
April 3-4, 2023

12:00 p.m. - Low Mass

Holy Wednesday
April 5, 2022

5:00 p.m. - Private Confessions
6:00 p.m. - Low Mass
6:30 p.m. - Tenebrae
Simple congregational chant


Maundy Thursday
April 6, 2022

7:00 p.m. - Solemn Mass
Music: Detera Domini, Valentin Rathgeber; Mass setting: A New Plainsong Mass, David Hurd

Vigil at the Altar of Repose - beginning after Mass, ending at midnight

Good Friday
April 7, 2022

12:00 p.m. - Stations of the Cross
7:00 p.m. - Solemn Liturgy
Music: St. John Passion, Schutz; Stabat Mater Dolorosa, Pergolesi; Solemn Reproaches, Victoria


Holy Saturday
April 8, 2022

11:00 a.m.  Holy Saturday Liturgy of the Word
including a reading of an ancient homily on the harrowing of hell

8:00 p.m. - The Great Vigil of Easter
Music: Alleluia, Christus Surrexit, Felice Anerio; Ave Verum Corpus, Mozart; Mass setting: Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena, Willan
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Easter Day
April 9, 2022

8:00 a.m. - Low Mass
10 a.m.  - Solemn Mass
Music: Christ is our Cornerstone, David Thorne; O Taste and See, Ralph Vaughan Williams; 
Mass setting: Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena, Willan

To the Glory of God and in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary

St. Mary's is a parish of the Diocese of West Missouri, The Episcopal Church, and the Anglican Communion.

Address

1307 Holmes Street
​Kansas City, Missouri 64106

Telephone

(816) 842-0975

Email

stmarykcmo@sbcglobal.net