For those of you making plans for Passion Week 2022 celebrations, here are this year’s dementia-friendly nondenominational worship services for:
- Palm Sunday (April 10), the remembrance of Jesus riding into Jerusalem and the crowds laying down their cloaks and branches to honor him. Watch the 45-minute Palm Sunday worship service here.
- Good Friday (April 15), a serious yet glorious remembrance of Jesus’ suffering and crucifixion. Watch the 31-minute Good Friday service here.
- Easter Sunday (April 17), the celebration of the Lord’s resurrection and victory over the grave. Watch the 40-minute Easter Sunday playlist here. (Note that this playlist contains two back-to-back videos: the church service and then a sing-along video of the Hallelujah Chorus.)
All are suitable for older adults with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
I hope you all have a beautiful and blessed week of remembering “the immeasurable riches of God’s grace in kindness toward us in Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 2:7).
Peace be with you,
P.S. If you’d like to provide these services yourself:
- Download the written Palm Sunday agenda here.
- Download the written Good Friday agenda and the special Good Friday songbook.
- Download the written Easter Sunday service here, plus the special Easter songbook. Simply print out enough copies for your group and create a playlist with the free hymn recordings.
Image by Aart Beijeman from Pixabay
Spiritual Eldercare 
These are so helpful! Thank you!!! I love the Good Friday service and so do my residents!
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Yay! I’m so glad, Alexis. Blessings to you and your residents.
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Hello!
I have a question⦠might you have the words to the music I could download and print for my residents preferably services( Good Friday service and the Easter service).. to read as I know they are on the laptop screen but, just thinking visually not good for a crowd..It would be easier and they might really enjoy that, I can look the words up on the internet.
Just thought I would ask you first.
Thank you so much appreciate it.
Heather Williams/ Life Enrichment Director
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Heather, what a good idea! It was easy for me to create songbooks that correspond exactly to the songs I use in the videos … so here you go:
Good Friday video lyrics (PDF): https://spiritualeldercare.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/hymn-lyrics-good-friday-video.pdf
Easter Friday video lyrics (PDF): https://spiritualeldercare.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/hymn-lyrics-easter-video.pdf
I’ll post these on my next blog, too. Thanks!
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