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Scenes from our three, small outdoor services of c

Scenes from our three, small outdoor services of communion today. Welcome, happy morning! #easter #eastersunday #outdoorchurch #outdoorworship #creativity #love #joy #hope #beauty #sun #thanks ☀️

Happy Easter! #easter #eastersunday #easterflowers

Happy Easter! #easter #eastersunday #easterflowers #flowers #floraldesign #beauty #light #joy #hope #easterindetroit #churchesofdetroit #episcopal

Alleluia! Christ is risen! Tune in at 10:30am or t

Alleluia! Christ is risen! Tune in at 10:30am or thereafter for our Easter Worship at Home service, featuring a moving sermon and glorious music, thanks to @edmakischramm @katriflin and our virtual choir. You'll see our beautiful sanctuary adorned with flowers designed by @richardthomas1365 and of course you will see the Lily Cross, decorated by the children of Christ Church. #alleluia #easter #eastersunday #easterindetroit #churchesofdetroit #detroitchurches #episcopal @episcopalmichigan

Floral iconographer and all-around brilliant litur

Floral iconographer and all-around brilliant liturgical artist @richardthomas1365 has fashioned this year’s paschal candle, which will be blessed at our first service on Easter morning, and used at every service during the Easter season and at each baptism, funeral, wedding, and major feast throughout the year. A paschal candle always bears a cross, the Greek letters alpha and omega, the present year (2021) to signify God’s immediate presence, and five “nails” of incense to recall the wounds of Christ. In addition, this year Richard found inspiration in Ethiopian iconography, for a stunning image that looks both unique and right at home in our space. Thank you, Richard. #easter #eastervigil #paschalcandle #thisisthenight #light #lightofchrist

The Triduum continues today, Holy Saturday, with a

The Triduum continues today, Holy Saturday, with a brief service of Morning Prayer, complete with a tender homily by Pastor Anthony Estes. Tune in on YouTube or Facebook either right at 9am or afterwards. #holyweek #holysaturday #morningprayer #prayer #wait

The Triduum continues today, Good Friday, with a s

The Triduum continues today, Good Friday, with a service at noon with the reading of the Passion, a stirring homily, a choral anthem, a hymn, and solemn prayers. Join in on YouTube and Facebook either right at noon or anytime afterwards. May God’s peace be with you on this holy, and good, day. #goodfriday #holyweek #triduum #episcopal #episcopalchurch #churchesofdetroit

The Triduum - the Great Three Days leading up to E

The Triduum - the Great Three Days leading up to Easter - begins tonight, Maundy Thursday, with a brief service at 6pm on YouTube and Facebook. We’ll begin with blessings over a meal (it’s appropriate to eat dinner while watching!), then hear readings, a homily, a hymn, and the Eucharistic Prayer, before ritually stripping the altar in observation of Jesus’ betrayal and death. #holyweek #triduum #maundythursday #holythursday #lastsupper #church #episcopal #love #loveoneanother

Palm Sunday festivities continued outdoors this af

Palm Sunday festivities continued outdoors this afternoon with a procession around the block, brief communion, and the distribution of Holy Week materials. #palmsunday #holyweek #episcopal #outdoorliturgy #outdoorworship #downtowndetroit

About today’s stunning #PalmSunday arrangements,

About today’s stunning #PalmSunday arrangements, @richardthomas1365 writes, “Palms are a requirement for Palm Sunday, right? Well, yes - when you can get them! We’re fortunate to be able to enjoy a variety of palms, but before transporting them became easy, for hundreds of years temperate zone dwellers (Europeans, etc) used willow. Today’s scripture refers to strewing palms and branches in the way. It was done to keep the dust down, as you would lay carpet for royal processions to keep the distinguished guest from breathing and walking in the dust or mud. So if you see pussy #willow fronds nestled in the palms, it is a nod to that part of our collective heritage. Red #leucadendron, #alstroemeria, and #hypericum berries are giving us the color for martyrs. Red is the liturgical color for Palm Sunday because it looks through the triumphant entry toward the tragic events of Good Friday.” #floral #floraldesign #floraliconography #liturgy #holyweek #episcopal #churchesofdetroit #downtowndetroit @episcopalmichigan

Spring is ... springing! 🌱☀️ #flower #flowe

Spring is ... springing! 🌱☀️ #flower #flowerchurch #hyacinth #spring #springindetroit #hope

Zoom in this Wednesday, March 24th, for the fifth

Zoom in this Wednesday, March 24th, for the fifth and final #DeepRiver session of the season, featuring #bassbaritone Branden C.S. Hood singing and discussing the birth of #artsong out of #spirituals. Mr. Hood sings with @michiganopera and @opera_modo and is a member of the George Shirley Diversify Opera Resident Artist Program. Mr. Hood attended @bostonconservatory and @umichsmtd, and is a friend of Christ Church, having performed recently in #DialoguesoftheCarmelites. Register via link in bio. #diversifyopera #diversifyarts #georgeshirley #music #musicindetroit #detroitsinger #opera #artsong #africanamericanartsong @blackoperaalliance @musicwithcalebria @edmakischramm

Today’s floral icon by @richardthomas1365 featur

Today’s floral icon by @richardthomas1365 features, as Richard describes, “a String of Pearls succulent plant which grows in harsher, arid places of Southwest Africa. Its leaves are oddly shaped like tears and echo the today’s epistle, which refers to the tears of Christ. We see another reference to the tears of Christ at the time when Jesus wept as he approached the hills of Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover with the women and men who were closest to him. As we started Lent with the story of the rainbow and the safety of the ark, we have as well looked beyond the crucifixion to the promise of a resurrected Christ, ‘I will not leave you comfortless.’ This is the last in the Lenten 2021 series, probably the simplest. It is in its theme and simplicity designed to set up for Passion Week, culminating by contrast in the great joy of the Queen of Feasts.” #lent #lent2021 #liturgy #lectionary #floral #floraldesign #floraliconography #iconography #prayer #scripture #beauty #nature #succulents #succulentsofinstagram

tower and moon on a sunny day 🌙☀️ #historic

tower and moon on a sunny day 🌙☀️ #historicdetroit #historicchurch #historicarchitecture #michiganarchitecture #gothicarchitecture #gothicchurch #gordonlloyd #belltower #belltowersofinstagram

Our guest at Deep River this week is #mezzosoprano

Our guest at Deep River this week is #mezzosoprano @jaimesharp, who will sing and speak about the power of African American art song. Ms. Sharp is a graduate of @umichsmtd and currently studies at @uc_ccm. She has sung with @opera_modo (including in #dialoguesofthecarmelites at Christ Church Detroit) and will appear in Opera MODO’s #intothewoods this summer. Ms. Sharp is the President/CEO of @operanexgen and Administrative Assistant with @blackoperaalliance. Please Zoom in tomorrow, Wednesday, March 17 at 7pm for what is sure to be an outstanding performance and discussion. See link in bio for more info. @blackwomeninopera #opera #artsong #classicalmusic #virtualmusic #voice #vocal #detroitmusic #musicindetroit

Today’s incredible floral icon by @richardthomas

Today’s incredible floral icon by @richardthomas1365 depicts, as Richard describes, “the ancient Moses story of lifting a bronze serpent on a pole which brought life and healing to all who would look upon it. The floral icon today puts a snake-like gourd on a pole made of a twisted old ivy vine. Around the base of the pole, tufts of dried prairie grasses hide small flowers springing up. A flowering in the wilderness, including touches of pink, also gives a nod to the break from the rigors of Lent and a pause for rejoicing on this Laetare Sunday.” Amen and thank you, Richard! 🌸 #flowers #flowerchurch #floral #floraldesign #floraliconography #sacredart #scripture #prayer #beauty #liturgy #lectionary #lent #laetare

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Detroit Steeplejack is preparing to replace some roof tiles! @detsteeplejack #restoration #repair #historicpreservation #historicdetroit #historicchurch #gothicrevival #gordonlloyd #downtowndetroit

Soprano @nicolesjoseph will be singing and speakin

Soprano @nicolesjoseph will be singing and speaking at Deep River tonight, 7pm on Zoom. See link in bio to join. Excerpts will be available afterwards on our YouTube channel. Described as an artist with a “sweeping range of emotions” and a “honeyed, effortless voice,” Ms. Joseph has delighted audiences in a wide range of performances across the country, including with @opera_modo, @michiganopera, @conspirareatx, Exigence, and Sounding Light. Tonight Ms. Joseph will perform and reflect upon two African American art songs. #soprano #music #detroitmusic #detroitsinger #vocal #choral #opera #artsong #africanamericanartsong

Did you catch the floral icon by @richardthomas136

Did you catch the floral icon by @richardthomas1365 last Sunday? Inspired by the Collect (Prayer) of the Day about the the outward and inward natures of faith, Richard writes about the design: “The square, having finite and measurable sides, is an ancient symbol for humanity. The circle, which is a symbol for infinity, is equally an ancient attribute of the Divine. When the circle inside the square is seen in three dimensions, the figures become a sphere contained in a cube. That is the basis for the icon which uses floral materials to convey a sphere in a cube. The cube is implied and only the edges are outlined--sort of like the incident in the temple which leads Jesus to say and do things that puzzled pretty much everybody. As usual, he was speaking metaphysically, yet everyone else was on a temporal plane. But how does the divine (infinite) center play out in a corporeal, human, finite setting? It is not always clear at the time. We’re in the heart of Lent now, and the only way out is to travel deeper in.” #flowers #flowerchurch #floral #floraldesign #floraliconography #sacredart #beauty #prayer #churchesofdetroit #episcopal #liturgy #lent

☀️ Sunny day ☀️ This part of our building,

☀️ Sunny day ☀️ This part of our building, the closest to the #detroitriver, is also the oldest part. Construction began in 1860, and for decades it was the most popular place in Detroit to get married. With @detroitriverfront views, how can you go wrong? #historicdetroit #historicchurch #churchesofdetroit #detroitweddings #historicweddingvenue @downtowndet

The music in this week's Deep River was beautiful,

The music in this week's Deep River was beautiful, and the conversation was powerful. Our guest @kaswannakanyinda was very open about her journey as an artist, and how challenging it was to find a way into the stories she was being asked to tell through her art. Available for a limited time! Watch on our YouTube channel before it disappears on March 19th... #artsong #africanamericanartsong #africanamericanmusic #detroitmusic #musicindetroit #langstonhughes #margaretbonds #womencomposers #womenshistory #blackhistory #blackmusichistory #detroitsinger #mezzosoprano @opera_modo @musicwithcalebria

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