3/19/2023 12:13:00 AM Cedar Grove Lutheran To Have Passion Play Annual event is big draw for church in rural Vale
Cedar Grove Lutheran Church, located at 261 Cedar Grove Church Road in Vale, will hold its annual Passion Play on Palm Sunday, April 2, 3-5 p.m.
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“Entry of Christ into Jerusalem,” painted some 700 years by Pietro Lorenzetti, depicts Jesus coming into the Holy City on Palm Sunday.
Thomas Lark Staff Writer
VALE––Cedar Grove Lutheran Church will hold its annual Passion Play on Palm Sunday, April 2, 3-5 p.m.
The church is located at 261 Cedar Grove Church Road in Vale. According to church spokeswoman Loretta Beam, the Passion Play will be a drive-through event, weather permitting, free of charge and open to all.
And Beam told The Herald more about it on Tuesday. She encouraged the public to come out and experience this spiritual occasion and to spread the word.
“Please mark your calendars,” she said, “and plan to come for this special event that depicts Our Lord’s Passion, Death and Resurrection. Please share this message, so everyone can experience the Lord’s Easter blessings in this annual event.
“The concept of a drive-through event began at Christmas of the first year of COVID, as a way to have an observance of Christ’s birth and the familiar scenes we would have incorporated into a play if indoors, but we were not able to (be indoors) that year,” Beam added, “so we essentially moved the play outdoors, patterned after events at other churches which have hosted live Nativity scenes. We created sets and used costumes, some of which were on hand and others newly crafted, to set up scenes around the drive and perimeter of our church campus.”
She continued that as drivers entered, they were greeted and directed to follow a line of travel which took them by scenes which told the story of Jesus’s birth.
“The following spring, in 2021, we decided to repeat the effort with an event to tell the story of Jesus’s Passion, Death and Resurrection, in about eight scenes, from the triumphal Palm Sunday entrance into Jerusalem to the empty tomb on Easter morning,” Beam informed. “Church members dress as various personalities in the stories and scenes and add movement––and in some cases, dialogue––or they’re simply still scenes to paint the familiar depictions. There is a Last Supper, along with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, as well as the Crucifixion scene, amongst others. We consider this a ministry to the community.”
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