ASH WEDNESDAY 26 February

12.20pm – Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes in the Peace Chapel

 

7.30pm – Service of Ashes, with music and reflection in the Chancel

 

 

SUNDAYS IN LENT 

8am services – CANCELLED

 

10am services

will include a reading of the gospel by multiple voices.

The gospel readings this year are the great (and long) texts which have been read in Lent since the third century

to prepare candidates for baptism. You may wish to read them ahead of each service.

 

1 March – The Temptations of Jesus – Matthew 4:1-11

8  March – Nicodemus meets Jesus – John 3:1-17

15 March – The Samaritan woman at the well – John 4:5-15

 CANCELLED 22 March – The healing of the man born with blindness – John 9:1-41

CANCELLED 29 March – The raising of Lazarus – John 11:17-44

 

Sunday 8 March

A Time to Pause resumes with Cate Thorn – a space to gather and share in silence.

 

Sunday 29 March CANCELLED

11.30am – the Annual General Meeting of the Parish will be held.

 

 

PALM SATURDAY 4 April

9am-12noon – Parish Workshop CANCELLED

Make palm crosses, decorate the church for Palm Sunday,

rehearse the readings, music and song for the season, hot cross buns.

 

PALM SUNDAY 5 April

8am service CANCELLED

 

10am – Procession, Blessing of the Palms and Reading of the Passion Story. CANCELLED

This service begins by recalling the entry into Jerusalem of Jesus,

welcomed by the crowds who waved palm branches as he rode on a humble donkey.

Then the focus changes to the week ahead – Holy Week –

as we tell the story of the events that will take place on Thursday and Friday, in the form of a dramatic reading.

 

12noon – Installation of the Labyrinth CANCELLED

The labyrinth is a prayer walk made of river stones which is laid out in the church
and available for anyone to walk during the week.

 

4.00pm – The Viva Voce choir bring us a concert within the labyrinth called “Journey to Jerusalem”. CANCELLED

 

 

LABYRINTH HOURS CANCELLED

Monday 6 April – Thursday 9 April 

10am-5pm

Come and walk the labyrinth.

 

DANCE IN THE LABYRINTH CANCELLED

Monday 6, Wednesday 8, Thursday 9 April

1pm-1.15pm

This year Jenny De Leon offers a dance entitled 'Forgiveness'.

The music, sung by the Monks of Dip Tse Chok Ling Monastery, is called 'Prayers of Forgiveness'.

 

FIRST TUESDAY CONCERT CANCELLED

Tuesday 7 April

12.10pm

Rare and exquisite piano music by Franz Liszt.

John Wells will play the beautiful "Via Crucis", a masterly musical piece which focuses on The Way of the Cross.

 

WEDNESDAY 8 April

12.20pm – Eucharist CANCELLED

 

THE GREAT THREE DAYS OF EASTER

MAUNDY THURSDAY 9 April  

7pm – Last Supper Eucharist, and the stripping of the church CANCELLED

 

We remember the Last Supper Jesus had with his disciples,
and prepare the church for the sorrow of Good Friday.

 

 

GOOD FRIDAY 10 April  

10am – a service of word and song focussed on the cross CANCELLED

We hear told the story of the crucifixion of Jesus, this year according to St Matthew.

 

11am – Removal of the labyrinth CANCELLED

 

5pm – Good Friday Concert CANCELLED

Michelle Scullion, a celebrated NZ-based flautist and film score composer,

will present a programme called the World of Flutes.

She will be performing her own compositions and that of some other composers:

Bach, Leonard Cohen, Gluck, Gounod and Andrew Lloyd Webber. 

The concert will also feature Sally Barratt-Boyes (mezzo-soprano), who will be singing two songs

(An Irish Blessing by Velma Frye and All in the April evening by Katharine Tynan and Hugh Roberton).

Bishop John Bluck will be giving some readings for the contemplative occasion.

 

 

HOLY SATURDAY 11 April

8pm – The Great Vigil of Easter and Renewal of Baptismal Vows CANCELLED

 

This service begins outside,
then we carry the Paschal Candle into the darkened church
and hear the stories of our faith read and then we proclaim Christ is risen!
We renew our baptism vows and share in the Eucharist.

Supper afterwards.

 

 

EASTER DAY 12 April

Services at 8am and 10am CANCELLED

 

The 10am service is a feast of music and the Easter story

as we celebrate the most important day in the church year.

LENT & EASTER 2020

ALL EASTER SERVICES AND THE LABYRINTH ARE CANCELLED