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By: Michaele Heske
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At the Palm Sunday service, the Dorfen church choir under the direction of Ernst Bartmann (r.) got the believers in the mood for Holy Week.
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Many devotions over the Easter holidays for Catholic and Protestant Christians in Dorfen.
Dorfen
– Holy Week began with Palm Sunday.
The name goes back to the Old High German word “kara”, which means “mourning” or “lament”.
This year too, Ernst Bartmann has put together a diverse program until Easter.
The believers are facing a three-day festival, according to Dorfen's church musicians.
“The Last Supper, the Passion and the Resurrection all follow an inner dramaturgy, have their own color and note - and yet they are a self-contained celebration.” The musical arrangement of the church services during this time is correspondingly complex - in all services and The church choir sings at high masses in the Maria Dorfen parish church.
The organ and bells are silent about the Gloria in the celebration from the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday to the Gloria at Easter Vigil - but the singing is not.
Good Friday is anything but a quiet day; at 3 p.m. the St. John Passion by Wolfram Menschick is sung.
In the Good Friday liturgy the aim is always to “shed new light on the suffering and death of Christ,” said Bartmann.
On Sunday at 5 a.m. the silence is broken by cantorial singers who ceremoniously sing “Hallelujah”.
The Easter fire burns not only on the Ruprechtsberg, but also in the Evangelical Reconciliation Church in the city center from 6 a.m.;
There will be an Easter breakfast here afterwards.
Dates at a glance:
Dorfen Parish Association: Maundy Thursday: Maria Dorfen and St. Georg Oberdorfen: 7 p.m. communion service.
Good Friday: Maria Dorfen: 8 a.m. Shoulder Wound Chapel opened for silent prayer.
9 a.m. Stations of the Cross through the city, 3 p.m. Good Friday liturgy, 8 p.m. Shoulder Wound Chapel Youth Good Friday prayer, 8 p.m. Grave vigil at the Holy Sepulcher in Karner until Easter Sunday 5 a.m.;
St. Georg Oberdorfen: 11 a.m. Children's Way of the Cross in the parish church, 3 p.m. Good Friday liturgy, Oberdorfen am Kreuzberg Passion devotion “The seven words of Jesus on the cross”.
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Holy Saturday: Maria Dorfen: the Shoulder Wound Chapel is open for prayer from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
St. Georg Oberdorfen: 10 a.m. Stations of the Cross, 9 p.m. Liturgy of the Easter Vigil, Eucharist celebration.
Easter Sunday: Maria Dorfen: 5 a.m. Liturgy of the Easter Vigil, Eucharist, 10 a.m. Solemn High Mass, 10 a.m. Dorfen Parish Hall Children's Word Service, St. Georg: 10 a.m. Festive Service, 10 a.m. Children's Word Service in Pastor Gammel House, no evening service.
Easter Monday: Maria Dorfen: 10 a.m. Maria Dorfen festival service, Oberdorfen: 10 a.m. festival service.
10 a.m. Eibach school gymnasium Children's word service with Easter egg hunt by the horticultural club.
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Church of Reconciliation:
Good Friday: 10:30 a.m. service with communion.
Easter Sunday: 6 a.m. Easter Vigil with Easter fire, Easter breakfast, 10:15 a.m. family service.
Easter Monday: 7.15 p.m. Taizé prayer.