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Christ Episcopal Church 2025 Holy Week & Easter Services

  • Palm Sunday April 13th 8:00 am Communion Service 10:00 am Communion Service

  • Wednesday April 16th 10:00 am Gospel Discussion & Communion 5:00 pm Simple Supper & Evening Prayer

  • Maundy Thursday 6:00 pm Communion Service Stripping of the Altar

  • Good Friday 7:00 pm Stations of the Cross

  • Holy Saturday 8:00 pm Easter Vigil with Communion

    EASTER SUNDAY APRIL 20 9:00
    One Service of Easter Celebration
    with Communion

Funeral service for Rev. Barbara von Haaren

Barbara's vibrancy will be reflected in a joyful Celebration of Life on Friday, April 25, 2pm at Christ Episcopal Church in Red Wing. She would ask that you wear bright, joyful colors and reserve black for fashion statements only - not for mourning!

Adult Formation Every Sunday morning at 9AM:

  • 5/18 - The way of Surrender

Soup Supper & Evening Prayer

Add a dash of communal prayer to your Lent each Wednesday evening from 5:00 to 6:15. We'll start with a simple soup supper in the Parish Hall and move into the chapel for Evening Prayer at 5:30.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Sabbath lately.

In no small part because of how bad I am at it. There’s always something to do: a task to accomplish (an oil change for the car! folding all that laundry!), a need to be met (grocery shopping! help with homework!) or something work related that can always be done now instead of later. Maybe it’s the combination of growing up with a Puritan work ethic on a hog farm, but the reality is that I’m absolutely terrible at sitting still and doing nothing.

And yet, having a rhythm of work and rest is vitally important. The very beginning of Genesis tells us that the God of unimaginable power and might didn’t create the universe in one instant. God worked over six days, fashioning a creation that was “good”. And then God rested.

It’s a fundamentally divine pattern of work and rest that we’re to follow as we steward the good creation that God has placed in our hands to tend and care for. Scripture warns us about what happens when work be comes an end unto itself. Exodus speaks of Egypt as the “house of slavery”, where the Israelites have lost their dignity as Pharaoh ruthlessly twists labor into punishment with daily crushing burdens. The great creations the Israelites are forced to make might be impressive, but no one could call them “good”.

Sabbath is important because helps us live into the pattern God has set for us. A Sabbath way of living offers a dramatic alternative to the whirlwind of modern life that cares little for the “good” that human limits and human thriving represent. A Sabbath way of living confronts the gods of work, or shopping, or social media, or sports, or anything else that distracts us from taking time away from everything to be joyfully present with the God who created us and loves us.

If we’re honest, Sabbath is difficult. It requires us to make hard decisions to step away from the things we could dot—the labor we could engage in. It requires us to disconnect. But the reward is great—because a Sabbath spirituality ripples into the rest of lives as we learn how good it is to be more present with others and to master the culture that seeks to master us.

So step away from a life of endless work and into a life-giving rhythm of sacred work and sacred rest. You won’t regret it.

In Christ, Pastor Aaron Twait

Serving God and Serving our Community

At Christ Episcopal Church we believe Christ is calling us to be a renewed body in a changing world.  Empowered by the Spirit of God, we deepen our bonds with Christ and with one another in a community where all are accepted.

Wherever you are in your life with God—whether a hesitant searcher or a regular church goer—we invite you to worship with us and to make Christ Church your spiritual home.

We are committed to strengthening our faith and supporting each other on our spiritual journeys. We use our gifts and talents to follow Christ's teachings. We are bound together by love and fellowship, not by dogma or rigid beliefs. We meet, not at the table of the church, but at the table of our Lord, and we meet in love.

We are a welcoming mix of Christians with diverse accomplishments, backgrounds and opinions.   

We worship.    We celebrate.   We question.   We listen.   We study.   We pray.   We Serve.

Come to Christ Church. Add your voice—add your heart—to our worship. Sing the hymns with us. Pray the prayers. Everyone is welcome at Jesus’ table.

Thank you for sharing your worship with us. 

May the peace of God fill your heart and mind, and the Blessing of God Almighty—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit—be with you, and remain with you, always.