Learn more about our 2025 Holy Week and Easter services

Holy Week Announcements

We invite you to join us as we observe the dark journey of Jesus’s last days and crucifixion and marvel at the miracle of his resurrection on Easter morning!

Holy Week Bulletins can be found on our Publications page.

Special Parking is available on both sides of Division St., from Catherine to Kingsley:
April 16: 6:45 pm to 8:45 pm
April 17: 6:45 pm to 8:45 pm
April 18: 11:45 am to 3:00 pm
April 19: 6:45 pm to 9:00 pm

Music Notes: Read all about the hymns used throughout our Holy Week and Easter services with Donna Wessel Walker's Hymn Notes. Learn more about the history of Haydn's "Missa Brevis in F" with Dennis Powers's Anthem Note.

Will you WATCH with me?
Maundy Thursday, April 17 | 8:30 - 10:00 pm in the Chapel
Good Friday, April 18 | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm in the Chapel
We invite you to come and spend half an hour with our Lord in these last moments before his death. Sit in prayer and reflection or use our self-paced booklet as you watch over the Altar in the Chapel. Sign-up for a 60 minute slot on the sheet outside the Chapel, or contact Fr. Paul at pfrolick@standrewsaa.org.

Church Office Closed: The Church Office will be closed Friday, April 18 and Monday, April 21.

Join us on Easter!

On Easter Day the 8:00 am service is less crowded and no less spectacular than the 10:30 am service.

The nearly identical services feature uplifting hymns, Haydn's Missa Brevis in F with orchestra, sermon, and communion. Come early to get a good seat and hear the magnificent music starting 30 minutes before each service. With music at 8:00 am from the Adult Choir - Handbell Choir - Chamber Orchestra and also joined at 10:00 am by the Junior Choir - Cherub Choir.

Join us in the Chapel at 9:15 am for a family friendly service with an abbreviated liturgy designed with our youngest members in mind. All ages welcome!

Easter Egg Hunts will be held on the front lawn after the 9:15 & 10:30 am services with separate areas for ages Preschool & under and Kindergarten & up (weather permitting)!

Sunday School: There is a combined Sunday School class for ages 3 through fifth grade at 10:15 am in the first floor preschool room on Easter Sunday, April 20. Kids, don’t forget to bring your Mite Boxes with your Lenten savings for our foster child and put them in the white cross in the lobby on Sunday, April 27.

Upcoming Events

Caregivers’ Luncheon

Tuesday, May 13 | 12 noon in the Lounge
An open invitation is extended to parishioners who may be giving care to a loved one. We’ll meet for an hour in the Lounge for lunch, reflection, and mutual encouragement. For more information, or to make a reservation for lunch, please contact Fr. Paul at pfrolick@standrewsaa.org.
Upcoming luncheon dates: June 10

Guest Speaker: Alain Mukwege

Sunday, May 18 | 11:15 am in the Chapel
Alain Mukwege, a Congolese-born physician and human rights activist, will speak at St. Andrew'’'s on Sunday, May 18, at 11:15 am in the Chapel, about the 30-year war devastating the Democratic Republic of Congo and its people. Alain is the son of Denis Mukwege, the 2018 Nobel Peace prize recipient for his advocacy against sexual violence in conflict. The war in Congo is being fought largely over the precious minerals that fuel the global technology.

Community Events

Division Street Pipes

Thursdays, January 16 - April 24 | 12:15-12:45 pm in the Church
This event is free and open to the public.
Join the University of Michigan Organ Department for “Division Street Pipes,” a weekly series of 30-minute recitals at St. Andrew’s, featuring performances by UofM organ majors and professors.

There will be no recital on Thursday, April 17. Please join us on April 24 for the final recital of the series!

This recital series is a unique opportunity to hear not only young, talented, and passionate organ students perform, but also the exceptional playing of their highly acclaimed professors!

Announcements

Worshiping Virtually?

The 10:00 am Holy Eucharist will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel and the bulletin is available in the Publications section of this site.

April Rota

The rota for April is available. If you are unable to serve as assigned, please contact the scheduler for your group.

Rota: April 2025

New Issue of The Network Now Available

Stay informed about life at St. Andrew's with the latest issue of our bi-monthly newsletter The Network! The April/May issue is available now. This issue of The Network has the latest from Fr. Paul, Holy Week + Easter, Photo Highlights, Ministry Updates, Fiddler on the Roof and more!

The Network: The April/May Issue

Help Us Help You!

Please make sure the parish office is notified about hospital and nursing home stays and requests for pastoral care! If you have a request or update, please leave a voicemail at (734) 663-0518 or email Jonathan at jgardner@standrewsaa.org.

Sunday School Announcements

Music Notes

Maundy Thursday - Hymn 329: "Now my tongue, the mystery telling"

This magnificent hymn explores the work of Christ in giving himself to us in the Incarnation, suffering and death, and sacrament of his body and blood. Thomas Aquinas probably used earlier sources to craft this text; its depths call for meditation. The music also dates back to the Middle Ages and probably came from the old cathedral at Salisbury, Sarum. The melody, also used for the Good Friday hymn about the cross which we will sing tomorrow, combines chant-based simplicity with soaring leaps; its open ending leads us into prayer.

Good Friday - Hymn 166: "Sing my tongue, the glorious battle"

The Good Friday liturgy is one of two places where the Book of Common Prayer stipulates which hymn to sing: this hymn, known for its first two Latin words Pange lingue, has been used on Good Friday since the time it was written in the 6th century. The words were written by Venantius Fortunatus (ca. 530-ca. 610). Here we confront the irony that our Savior brought comfort through suffering, strength through weakness, life through death. This hymn is unflinching about what that meant; may we not shrink from that reality as we kneel at the foot of the cross.

Easter Vigil - Hymn 208: “The strife is o’er”

This hymn, which begins quietly and builds to a firm acclamation, helps us experience the firmness of our hope as we sing. The text comes from an anonymous Latin hymn first published in 1695. It was translated by Francis Pott , an English priest who served on the committee for Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). William H. Monk, its musical editor, adapted a Palestrina Gloria specifically for this text; and named his version “Victory”. We are glad Francis Pott was able to hear this perfect match for his text before he became deaf and had to retire from hymnody.

Easter Day - Hymn 207: "Jesus Christ is Ris’n Today, Alleluia!"

It almost wouldn’t be Easter without singing this hymn. It gladly celebrates the reality that “our triumphant holy day” is not our triumph at all, but Christ’s. It is he who won the battle for us and now reigns as our Lord; the last lines join earth and heaven in a Trinitarian doxology. The tune appeared anonymously in an 18th-century English hymnal designed to lighten up church music; with its fanfare chords and 8th-note runs, it certainly sets the heart rejoicing! - Donna Wessel Walker

Missa Brevis in F (Haydn)

Opera was one of the foremost musical genres of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It therefore is unsurprising that operatic elements began to find their way into the sacred music of the time. From such fusion evolved the so-called “mixed church style” combining traditional contrapuntal choruses with coloratura solo arias and ensembles. Its hallmark was glittering showiness rather than a focus on the words of the liturgical texts. In February 1749, Pope Benedict XIV sought to neutralize these excesses by issuing an encyclical on church music. It demanded music that exhibited an awareness of its religious purpose.

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was a contemporary of Mozart. The mutual respect between them is well-documented. Mozart was employed as a court musician by Hieronymous Colloredo, the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, from 1773 to 1777. Archbishop Colloredo took Benedict XIV’s admonitions seriously. Through Mozart, he had a marked influence on both Haydn and Austrian church music.

Archbishop Colloredo demanded liturgical music marked by clarity and simplicity above all else. Mass settings must not take longer to perform than would their corresponding Gregorian chant in the monastic Liber Usualis. Mass settings also were to be through-composed rather than being a cantata-like succession of free-standing movements. Such a setting became known as a missa brevis or, in today’s parlance, a short-form service.

Haydn’s Missa Brevis in F, composed in 1850, is a prototype of the genre. Large sections of the Ordinary of the Mass (referred to as such because, in the Roman Catholic liturgy, the text of the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei remain the same regardless of the liturgical season or feast) are disposed of by Haydn of in short bursts of music.

Take the Credo as an example. The Gloria and Credo are lengthy, so they usually are the longest parts of a Mass setting. Here, however, following the opening intonation, the entirety of the Credo’s text is dealt with in only twenty-nine bars.

This feat is managed employing a compositional technique, known as “telescoping,” in which the various sections of the choir simultaneously sing different sentences of text. One choir section begins at the start of the set text; the next to enter comes in a quarter of the way through; the third at about half way; with the final voice contributing the last quarter or so. The overall length of the piece is reduced due to this compression. Although it is difficult for a listener to differentiate the words, the practice was justified at the time because the text of the Gloria and Credo were so familiar to the faithful. - Dennis Powers

Revised Common Lectionary (The RCL)

Sunday, April 6 - Lent 5

Isaiah 43:16-21   •   Psalm 126   •   Philippians 3:4b-14   •   John 12:1-8

Sunday, April 13 - Palm Sunday

Liturgy of the Palms: Luke 19: 28-40   •   Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 | Liturgy of the Word: Isaiah 50:4-9a   •   Psalm 31:9-16   •   Philippians 2:5-11   •   Luke 22:39-23:49

Maundy Thursday, April 17

Exodus 12:1-14   •   Psalm 116:1, 10-17   •   1 Corinthians 11:23-26   •   John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Good Friday, April 18

Isaiah 52:13-53:12   •   Psalm 22   •   Hebrews 10:16-25   •   John 18:1 - 19:42

Great Vigil of Easter, April 19

At the Vigil: Genesis 1:1-2:4   •   Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21   •   Isaiah 55:1-11   •   Ezekiel 37:1-14   •   Zephaniah 3:14-20 | At the Eucharist: Romans 6:3-11   •   Matthew 28:1-10

Easter Sunday, April 20

Isaiah 65:17-25   •   Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24   •   Acts 10:34-43   •   Luke 24:1-12

Sunday, April 27 - Easter 2

Acts 5:27-32   •   Psalm 150   •   Revelation 1:4-8   •   John 20:19-31

Sunday, March 30 - Lent 4

Joshua 5:9-12   •   Psalm 32   •   2 Corinthians 5:16-21   •   Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Looking ahead?

Please visit The Lectionary Page. St. Andrew's generally follows Track Two.

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