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Grotto: Reside & Resist
Lent 2022 at Church of the Covenant

Discovering spiritual power from entering the inner life and emerging for action.

Grotto (noun: from Italian grotta, via Latin from Greek kruptē (see crypt)): a small, subterranean cavern or human-made cave-like shrine often linked to gardened landscapes connoting a place of rebirth and renewal.

Join us for worship at 10:30 am every Sunday, online or in-person.
Prior to Easter Sunday, pre-registration is required for all in-person services at 67 Newbury.


Lenten Sunday Worship & Weekly Calls to RESIST
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1st Sunday in Lent, March 6: Luke 4:1-13
Rev. Rob Mark preaching
Holy Communion of the People
Climate Jubilee (click here to take action)

2nd Sunday in Lent, March 13: Exodus 33
Celebration of the Word Service with Nica Companions
Immigration Justice (click here to take action)

3rd Sunday in Lent, March 20: Jeremiah 29
Rev. Joshua Lazard preaching
Holy Communion of the People
Housing Justice (click here to take action)

4th Sunday in Lent, March 27: 1 Kings 9
Rev. Rob Mark preaching
Climate Jubilee 5pm Part 3 Book Discussion on "Saving Us" by Katherine Hayhoe
Voting Rights (click here to take action)

5th Sunday in Lent, April 3: 1 Samuel 24
Rev. Julie Avis Rogers preaching
Transgender Justice (click here to take action)

Palm Sunday: Luke 19
All Ages Service, more info below
Decarceration (click here to take action)

​Lent is a season of spiritual vitality and renewal. It is a time to move past some of life’s daily distractions and difficulties to draw near to the sacred. It is a gift of 40 days to seek the Holy Spirit’s presence with more intentionality and creativity as we follow in the footsteps of Jesus. Through the journey of these days – through silence, reflection, contemplation, listening, questioning, singing – through giving up or taking on – it is our prayer that your mind, body, and spirit would find restoration, revitalization, and renewal in the foundational love of God.

Join us this Lent as together, inspired by sacred stories from our scriptures, we will build our own at-home personal grottos. From these places of residing in God's nurture, potential and new beginnings, we will emerge in solidarity through weekly calls to action and advocacy as we resist the powers of empire and fear.


Holy Week Worship at COTC
(all services also accessible online)

Palm Sunday, April 10
10:30 am, Sanctuary at Covenant

We will begin Holy Week with our Palm to Passion Sunday service, including a multigenerational outdoor procession with palms and the Service of Holy Communion.

Maundy Thursday, April 14
7:30 pm, In-Person at Emmanuel Church Main Sanctuary, 15 Newbury St. OR YouTube Live
Ecumenical Footwashing Service & Holy Communion

We will worship with Emmanuel Church, common cathedral and Old West Church for Maundy Thursday, remembering Jesus' Last Supper and washing his disciples' feet.

Good Friday, April 15
7:00 pm, In-Person Sanctuary at Covenant or on ZOOM

Tenebrae Service
Musical and spoken meditations on the seven last words of Jesus combined with reflections on our current world.

Holy Saturday, April 16
2:30 pm, Sanctuary at Covenant In Person or on Zoom
Musical Contemplation Vigil

Join us for a unique chance to pause and be guided in prayerful contemplation by musicians & readers on this sacred day poised between the cross of Good Friday and the hope of Easter where we acknowledge the seeming "silence of God."

Easter Sunday, April 17
10:30 am, Sanctuary at Covenant (in-person or on Zoom)

Celebrate this most joyful day with choir, organ, and the Red Line Brass Ensemble. Immediately after worship, there will be an Easter Egg hunt for our beloved young ones.
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BUILD YOUR OWN GROTTO

This Lent, we invite you to put on your creativity hat, and join us in making your own home grotto. Inspired by sacred stories from our scriptures, we will build our own at-home grottos and decorate them each week with images, ideas, words, beliefs, mentors, callings, and passions. You can start with a shoebox, any cardboard box bound for the recycling bin, a matchbox, a little wooden box, a special corner of your room, or a sacred spot in your back yard. Any “place” is fine – we just invite you to think of a place that will remain intact over the 6 weeks journey through Lent. Each week, following worship, we invite you to spend the week adding things to your grotto. Perhaps a word or a phrase from the scripture or hymns or liturgy in worship. Perhaps a photo from a bulletin cover, or an image you take and print out, or find on the internet. Perhaps something you make. Perhaps an item from nature. The sky is the limit. Think creativity and build a grotto that will become a sacred place for you to “go” and further reside in the expansive and wild love of God during your Lenten journey. A journey that is both yours individually, and ours collectively in community. For those who wish to share photos of their grottos along the way or around Holy Week, we welcome the sharing and mutual inspiration.
Contact Us

EMAIL

churchofthecovenant@cotcbos.org

PHONE

617-266-7480

ADDRESS

67 Newbury Street
​Boston, MA 02116

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  • Home
  • Worship with us
    • This Sunday Online
    • Lent 2022
    • What to expect
    • Worship Recordings
    • Sermons
    • Music at Covenant
    • Wednesday Evening Prayers
    • Directions & Parking
    • This Week at Covenant
    • Church Calendar
  • Who We Are
    • Welcoming all: Progressive Christian Tradition
    • Social Justice
    • Community Life
    • Infants, Children, and Youth
    • Adult Spiritual Formation
    • Clergy and Staff
    • COTC Opportunities
    • 5 Year Missional Plan 2020-2025
    • Climate Jubilee
    • Fossil Free
  • Our Historic Building
    • History of our Congregation and Sanctuary
    • Visiting the Sanctuary
    • Truth Telling: Honoring Native Land
    • Renew the Light Window Project
  • Weddings & Rentals
    • Weddings
    • Venue Rentals
  • Give