Church Festivals & Service Times 2025

Trinity Lutheran Church, Denver, Colorado, will celebrate the following festivals in 2025. All Sunday Divine Services (including Holy Communion) start at 9:00 a.m., and Chapel Services are conducted every Tuesday beginning at 9:00 a.m. during the school year. Learn more about the form and function of our services here.

Festival	Service Date and Time	Explanation
Epiphany	Observed January 6, 2025	The first of the Church festivals of 2025, Epiphany, focuses on the manifestation or self-revelation of God in that same flesh of Christ. This is the time after focusing on the Incarnation of our Lord — God becoming flesh — after the 12 days of Christmas.
St. Titus, Pastor and Confessor	January 26, 2025	Titus heard the Gospel preached by Paul, and God used that experience to bring Titus to faith in Christ Jesus. Titus then became a steadfast worker in the mission field with St. Paul. We remember him today for his dedication to the Gospel and shepherding people in their Christian faith.
Purification of Mary and Presentation of Our Lord	February 2, 2025	Joseph and Mary offer the alternative sacrifice for purification prescribed in the Law (Leviticus 12:8). Yet, behold, they present Jesus, the True Sacrifice, for a far more remarkable purification — the payment for sin. Jesus is the Lamb of God, slain for the world’s sins. (John 1:29).
Ash Wednesday	March 5, 2025 Midweek Lent services with Holy Communion, starting with Ash Wednesday, start at 6:30 pm each Wednesday until Holy Week.	Ash Wednesday begins the church’s annual season of penitence, traditionally marked by fasting, almsgiving, and prayer leading up to the glorious celebration of Easter.
Palm Sunday	April 13, 2025	“Behold, your King is coming to you . . . humble and mounted on a donkey” (Zech. 9:9–12; Mt. 21:1–9). Our Lord rides in this humble fashion because He is entering Jerusalem to humble Himself even to the point of death on a cross (Phil. 2:5–11).
Maundy Thursday	April 17, 2025 Service starts at 6:30 pm.	“For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes” (1 Cor. 11:26). On Maundy Thursday, we celebrate the first sacrament of Holy Communion, established by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ before his death on the cross.
Good Friday	April 18, 2025 Service starts at 3:00 pm.	On this day, we remember when Jesus, the Lamb of God, was led to the slaughter of His cross as the Sacrifice of Atonement for the sin of the world.
Easter Sunday	April 20, 2025	The most joyous of the Church festivals is Easter, when we celebrate that by the shed blood of Christ, eternal death has passed over us, and now we pass with Christ through death into life everlasting. For Christ the crucified One is risen!
Ascension	May 29, 2025 Divine Service starts at 6:30 pm.	On the 40th day after His resurrection, our Lord ascended to the Father’s right hand. But although Jesus is hidden from your eyes, He is not absent from you. For He now fills all things in heaven and on earth.
Pentecost	June 8, 2025	On Pentecost, we celebrate when God caused the one Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to be preached in many languages. At this sound, the multitude came together (Acts 2:6), for the preaching of Christ is the primary work of the Holy Spirit, whereby He gathers people from all nations into one Church.
Trinity Sunday	June 15, 2025	Having received forgiveness and life from the Father through the Son by the Holy Spirit, we join with the angels in praising the blessed Trinity, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts!” (Is. 6:3). “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen” (Rom. 11:33–36).
St Michael & All Angels	September 29, 2025 (service on Sunday). Divine Service on Sunday, September 28, 2025.	The Church commemorates St. Michael and All Angels each year as the heavenly legate of God to announce the good news of great joy in Christ Jesus, incarnate, risen, and ascended, all for us mortals.
Reformation Day / All Saints	October 31/November 1, 2025 (service on Sunday). Divine Service on Sunday, November 3.	More than 500 years ago, the Protestant Reformation brought the church’s focus back to God’s free gift of salvation in Jesus Christ. We celebrate this and All Saints Day on one Sunday, where faith-filled saints from every place and time, with unified voices, eternally magnify the Lamb of God.
Thanksgiving	November 27, 2025 Service starts at 6:30 pm.	A special service to thank God for his bountiful blessings to His Church.
Advent Sunday	November 30, 2025 Midweek Advent services start at 6:30 pm each Wednesday until Christmas.	The new Church Year begins by focusing on the humble coming of our Lord. “Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey” (Matt. 21:5). Even as He was born in a lowly manger, so Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a beast of burden. For He bears the sin of the world.
Christmas Eve	December 24, 2025 Service will start at 4:30 pm, followed by a shared supper.	The Son of God is conceived and born of the Virgin Mary, and the sign is received in faith by the House of David in the person of Joseph (Matt. 1:20–24). “Incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary” (Nicene Creed), God is with us (Immanuel) in the flesh of Jesus, Mary’s Son.
Christmas	December 25, 2025. Divine Service will start at 10:00 am.	In the last of the Church festivals, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:1-14). The Son of God took on our flesh and blood and died on the cross so that we might receive the right to become the children of God through faith.

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