Lent, Holy Week and Easter

We are invited to a Holy Lent, through a wide offering of opportunities for prayer and worship and reflection in this Lent, Holy Week and Easter programme.

We will be accompanied by sermons and music which will orientate us in this unique period of focus and preparation. We look forward to meeting the risen Christ at the end of these forty days.

Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord, that by the observance of this Lent we may advance in the knowledge of the mystery of Christ, and show forth his mind in conduct worthy of our calling; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Gelasian Sacramentary, 5th century

Lent Services

Wednesday 18 February, 7.30pm 
Ash Wednesday Solemn Eucharist with ashing

Fridays in Lent: 20, 27 February, 13, 20 March, 12.10pm
Eucharist followed by Lent Charity Lunch
6, 27 March (Eucharist - no lunch)

Tuesdays in Lent: 24 February, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 March
Candlelit Compline

Sunday 1 March, 6.30pm
Lent Taizé Service

Thursday 19 March, 5.30pm
Festal Evensong for the Feast of St Joseph

Wednesday 25 March, 5.30pm
Festal Evensong for the Feast of the Annunciation

Holy Week and Easter Services

This year’s Holy Week preacher is the Revd Dr Stephen Hampton.

Palm Sunday 29 March
10.30am Sung Eucharist 
4pm Evensong

Monday in Holy Week 30 March
7.30pm Station of the Cross

Tuesday in Holy Week 31 March
8pm Candlelit Compline and Address

Wednesday in Holy Week 1 April
7.30pm The Façade Ensemble present a liturgical performance of Passio, Arvo Pärt’s extraordinary treatment of the Johannine Passion narrative for soloists, choir, and instrumental ensemble.

Maundy Thursday 2 April
10.30am Chrism Eucharist
5.30pm Choral Evensong 
7.30-11pm Eucharist of the Last Supper 

Good Friday 3 April
10am Christians Together Walk of Witness
Midday-3pm Preaching of the Cross and The Liturgy of the Day 
5.30pm Choral Evensong

Holy Saturday 4 April
5.30pm Evensong with plainsong
8pm Easter Vigil with Baptism and Confirmation

Easter Day 5 April
8.15am Holy Communion
10.30am Orchestral Eucharist 
10.30am Children's Easter Activities followed by an Easter Egg Hunt 
4pm Festal Evensong and Procession