at Mount Olive Lutheran Church, 2336 St. Johns Avenue

12:00 NOON TO 3:00 PM

All are invited.

  The central mystery of the Christian faith remains the death of Christ.   Christians believe that man cannot live unless God Himself entered into death. 

 Without Good Friday, there is no Easter Sunday.  “Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins” (Hebrews 9:22).  For centuries Christians have used prayerful rituals to experience the deeper meaning of this dark day. 

 The Tre Ore focuses upon Christ’s “seven words” from the Cross, accented by short homilies.  It also features the narrated Passion account from Scripture. 

 The hymns and music vividly portray the cold reality of nails, blood, loneliness, thirst, and tortured breath. The intense climax comes when Jesus gasps the words, “It is finished.” 

 Each of the seven 20-minute meditations ends with a short intermission.  People are free to come and go throughout the service.  As in centuries past, the Tre Ore begins at noon and concludes at 3:00 p.m. - the very moment when Christ gave up His life.

 Worshippers then depart in holy silence, pondering the death of God in place of mankind.  To experience the Tre Ore is to sense the mystery of how this Friday can be called “Good”.

 We will gather at the foot of the Cross to worship Him  and to commemorate the profound mystery of earth’s darkest hours.

Lutheran's For Life  announcement.  Did you know abortion is legal in Montana?  If you would like to sign a petition toward establishing in Montana, that life begins at conception - contact Ray Albert.  LFL meetings are the last Tuesday each month, 4:15 p.m.

If anyone would like to volunteer to come to Mount Olive School throughout the week to read to the Kindergarten class, please call the church office.  Thank you, Mrs. Silbernagel.

Vicar Preus would like to offer a young couple's Bible Study that would meet once-a-month.  If anyone would be interested, please talk with Vicar. 

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans members can maximize their gifts to LCMS World Relief & Human Care by using a generous matching gift opportunity.  In response to the earthquake devastation, Thrivent announced that they will match $1 for every $2 donated by Thrivent members, up to $1 million for the potential of generating $3 million.   Thrivent Financial will match a maximum of $250 per Thrivent member donation.  The matching gift opportunity ends March 31.  To learn more visit Thrivent.com/helpinghaiti or 1-800-236-3736 between 7 a.m. & 6 p.m. Central time, Monday - Friday.  When prompted, please say "directory" and enter ext. 83003.

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is working to respond to the earthquake in Haiti.  LCMS World Relief & Human Care is working cooperatively with Lutheran World Relief, LCMS World Mission, Haitian missionaries, partner churches, & the LCMS Florida-Georgia District to provide relief in a timely fashion.  Please pray for those in harm's way, who have lost loved ones, homes, & livilihoods.  Please pray that Lutheran disaster response efforts touch many lives with God's hope & mercy.  Please give - Donations are urgently needed!  To learn more, visit www.lcms.org/worldrelief.  *Mail checks to LCMS World Relief and Human Care, "Haiti Earthquake Relief", P.O. Box 66861, St. Louis, MO  63166-6861  or *Phone toll-free: 1-888-930-4438  or *Online at http://givenowlcms.org.