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Scenes from Easter Week in Maplewood

St. George's celebrates the holiest week in the Christian calendar with multitudinous services.

St. George's Episcopal Church in Maplewood does Easter in a big way.

This holiest of Christian weeks started with a special children's service that featured a real, live "donkey" on Palm Sunday (Jesus rode into Jerusalem triumphantly on one on the original Palm Sunday, although we're pretty certain its name wasn't "Skeeter"). The week continues with services at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Those that are geared especially for children are Good Friday at 4 p.m. and Easter Sunday at 9 a.m.

The 9 a.m. Easter Sunday service starts with a "Search for Jesus" with grown ups in costume portraying a centurion and an angel at the empty tomb (a video from two years ago is posted on the website), and is followed by an egg hunt.

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There are three Easter services: at 8 am, the 9 am family service described above, and the main service at 10:30 am which is followed by a reception. St. George's concludes the 10:30 a.m. service with an open call for the congregation to join the choir to sing Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" (last year's video is posted on the website).

All of St. George's Holy Week and Easter services are listed on their website. You can also visit websites for Prospect Presbyterian Church, Morrow United Methodist, St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church and Our Lady of Sorrows for more service times, or call the First Maplewood Baptist Church at 106 Burnett Avenue at 973-762-3778 for service times.

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Thanks to Nina Nicholson, St. George's web mistress and communications officer, for the photos, video and information.


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