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 Easter Day sermon by Jenny Sheldon (2007)

 
   
EASTER services and activities 2008

Holy week begins with Palm Sunday on March 16th

The activities and services are listed below. The second Easter page gives more details and explanation about the services

March
All Saints
St Nicholas
PALM SUNDAY - 16th March
8.30 am
Holy Communion
9.30 am
Morning Prayer
10.00 am
Procession of Palms and Parish Mass
11.00 am
Mass
12 noon
Churches Together in Poplar March of Celebration and open air worship, meet at All Saints**
5.00pm
Evening prayer and stations of the cross
MONDAY 17th
12.30pm
Eucharist and Stations of the Cross
7.00pm
Eucharist and Stations of the Cross
Night Prayer
TUESDAY 18th
12.30 pm
Eucharist and Stations of the Cross
7.00pm
Eucharist and Stations of the Cross Mass
Night Prayer
WEDNESDAY 19th
12.30pm
Eucharist and Stations of the Cross
7.00 pm
Eucharist and Stations of the Cross
Night Prayer
MAUNDY THURSDAY 20th
10.30 am
Mass and blessing of oils at St. Paul's Cathedral
2.30 pm
St. Saviour's School Holy Week Service
 
7.30 pm
Sung Mass and Procession to the Alter of Repose
AGAPE MEAL AND MASS AT 7.00PM
All night
Vigil before the Blessed Sacrament
Vigil until 12 midnight
GOOD FRIDAY 21st
9.30 am
Morning prayer
10am to 12.00md Children's activities and hot cross bun making
12 noon
Good Friday march of witness through Chrisp St Market
2.00pm
Liturgy of the day
Liturgy of the day
5.00 pm
Evening Prayer
HOLY SATURDAY 22nd
10.00am
Morning Prayer
10.15 to 12.30pm
Church cleaning and preparation for Easter
Church cleaning and preparation for Easter (start at 10am)
EASTER SUNDAY 23rd March
5.30 am
Easter Vigil and First Mass of Easter, followed by breakfast in the crypt
8.30am
Holy Communion
 
10.00am
Parish Mass
11.00 am
Parish Mass

Each weekday in Holy Week at All Saints, Morning Prayer will be said at 9.00am and Evening Prayer at 6.00pm (unless times differ slightly as in the table above)

** Traditional Palm Sunday March, with Donkey - balloons and banners welcome

 
CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES

Because the schools don't break up before Easter this year, these activities are taking place within the schools. There will be just the Good Friday activities in the Church crypt.

 

   
Holy Week
   

What’s good about Good Friday? Strange that the day we remember Jesus being killed on a cross is called ‘good’. ‘Bad Friday’ or suffering Friday’ might be more understandable. After all, in churches throughout the world, services on that day will be encouraging worshippers to appreciate the sacrifices made by Jesus all those years  ago  - his arrest, trials, scourging and execution. It really is a solemn and moving day.


Perhaps the Eastern Orthodox church has the right idea: it calls the Friday before Easter ‘’Great Friday’’. Something truly remarkable happened that day  - Jesus, Gods Son, died for us on a cross so that we can share in the new eternal life God offers and experience the power of his love and victory over evil in our lives. That must be ‘’good’’!


If you have never taken part in our special services on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter morning, why not give them a try? They really do help us appreciate why, because of Good Friday, we can say -

Happy Easter

Father Alan

 
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