Feast Services — Holy Cross Lutheran Church

Several times a year, we have a special service. We call these unique worship opportunities, Feast Services. They are visually, musically, and textually art-infused services that inspire meditation and worship as we come into the presence of Jesus and receive His gifts!

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If you are unable to attend the worship service and would like to watch online, please go to the Holy Cross YouTube page. The link is usually live five minutes before the service.

FEBRUARY 11, 2024 AT 10:30AM
Join us at 10:30AM on Sunday, February 11th, for a visually, musically, and textually art-infused, Feast Service observing the Transfiguration of Our Lord. Free community lunch to follow at 3636 Texas avenue in the Intersect Art Gallery.
Everyone is welcome.
It will be a joy to worship together as we come into the presence of Jesus and receive His gifts!
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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
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Image : Eugenia Sherman Brown, *Alone* (detail)

2024 Feast Service schedule:

March 28th at 7:00pm - Maundy Thursday

March 29th at 7:00pm - Good Friday

March 31st at 10:30am - Easter

June 2nd at 4:00pm

Past FEAST SERVICEs:

Temppeliaukio Church, “Church of the Rock,” Helsinki, Finland

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 AT 4:00PM

“A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.”
- Psalm 68:5 -

Britt Sondreal, *Homescape 37,* *Homescape 2* and *Homescape 7*

DECEMBER 24, 2022 AT 7:00PM

“And they shall call His name Immanuel—God with us.”
- Matthew 1:23

Heads, Faces, Spiritual Encounter

DECEMBER 6, 2022 | Dinner 5:00 - 7:00 | Concert 7:00 - 8:00

THE DINNER : 5:00 - 7:00
Join us Tuesday December 6th for a special Intersect Arts Center and Holy Cross collaborative evening that will combine our gallery Dovetail event series with our first midweek Advent service. This Dovetail culinary reception features Chef Juwan Rice, who will craft a 5 course menu in response to the artwork to be enjoyed throughout the gallery open house style from 5-7, alongside some theatrical performances by our neighbor church, Jefferson Avenue Mission.

THE CONCERT : 7:00 - 8:00
From 7-8 a unique Advent hymn festival at Holy Cross Lutheran Church will host organist James Marriott and Lutheran rapper Flame from 7-8 pm. This event is free and open to the public, but registration for the dinner is required. Donations are appreciated to support paying our chef, performing artists, and bringing high quality art and worship experiences to our neighborhood!

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

“Heads, Faces, Spiritual Encounter”
This national traveling exhibition from CIVA includes noted artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Mattise, Marc Chagall, Otto Dix, Georges Rouault, Giovanni Castiglione, Leonard Baskin, to self-taught artists such as Elder Anderson Johnson and Rodney Charles Hardee to anonymous African artists from Ife, Nigeria, and the Dan Peoples, this exhibition offers a thoughtful survey of the beauty, mystery, and Imago Dei in the human face.

NOVEMBER 6, 2022 AT 4:00PM

“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.”
- 1 John 3:1-3

Join us for dinner at Intersect Arts Center following the service.

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OCTOBER 2, 2022 AT 4:00PM

“For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
- 2 Timothy 1:7

Join us for dinner at Intersect Arts Center following the service.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 AT 10:30AM

“Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.” John 6:32

JUNE 26, 2022 at 10:30am

Psalm 150:6

“Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”

Featuring artwork by Melissa Gwyn, Sarah Bernhardt, Sedrick Huckaby, Shuna George, Delro Rosco, and Meena Matocha.

March 6, 2022 at 10:30am

Psalm 91:11-12

“For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.”

Featuring artwork by Meena Matocha

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Artist Meena Matocha writes about the series that will be featured in this service:

In Madeleine L’Engle’s book “Walking on Water” she presents the idea that artists are servants. They serve the artwork, understanding that the work knows more than the artist does of what it needs to be. I took on this posture when creating the piece Redemption of Ashes for my church, allowing it to be slow and meditative, progressing week to week. My intent with this piece was to let it walk the Lenten journey with us as we approached Easter. It was very much a personal journey but I was continually mindful of our community. The challenge, then, was to not allow myself to fall into thinking about the project as making something to please others, but rather to let our communal griefs and joys feed the work. I believe the Spirit allowed me to do this and it was such a powerful experience. The stories I heard and experienced together with my church community are poured into this piece. The painting is about my local church and also, ultimately, the church universal, as we lament and rejoice in our ashes, and walk in the redemption of the Light of Christ. This piece was the first I created using this process and it changed the way I make artwork. Traditionally an oil painter, making portraits and figure paintings, this piece freed me to bring in my spiritual practice and expression using different materials. They have evolved to include ashes, charcoal and soil…materials I feel convey both lament and joy in the human experience.