(Cazenovia, NY – March 2015) The First Presbyterian Church in Cazenovia will celebrate a Palm Sunday worship service at 10 a.m. on March 29.
Vincent Guarneiri, Director of Music, has planned a significant service of music. The Jubilante Bell Choir will play “Fairest Lord Jesus” and “Jesus Shall Reign.” The Senior Choir will sing the anthem “Hosanna to the Son of David” by George Frideric Handel and arranged by Hal H. Hobson. The organ postlude will be “Praeludium e in E Minor” by Nicholaus Bruhns
The Dr. Rev. Virginia B. “Ginny” Smith will deliver the message The Converted at Jesus’ Crucifixion. Smith is retired after 33 years of ordained ministry in the Presbyterian Church, having served most recently as the Associate Executive Presbyter for Ministry in the Chicago Presbytery. She received her Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ and her Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Ill. She is currently on the staff at the Spiritual Renewal Center in Syracuse as a spiritual director and workshop leader.
The children from the Sunday School will distribute Palms that have been made into crosses.
Palm Sunday, also known as Passion Sunday, is the Sunday before Easter. Palm Sunday remembers Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem near the end his public ministry. When Jesus entered the city with his entourage, people laid palm branches in the road before him and greeted him as the long awaited Messiah. They shouted “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord.”
After the Palm Sunday service there will be a brunch at 11:30 a.m. in the church’s Meeting House. The event is free and open to anyone wanting good food and good fellowship.
Child Care and Sunday School are available during the service.
For more information contact the church at 655-3191 or visit our website at www.cazpres.org.