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Our Rector Revd Sharon Lord writes………

Remember Holy Week

I know that as I write this it isn’t going to be quite Easter when you read The Digest, but let me say it anyway.

Happy Easter!

Christ is Risen!

He is risen indeed Alleluia!

But before we have Easter, we have to have Holy Saturday, Good Friday, Maundy Thursday, and we have to have Palm Sunday. without those preceding days, there is no Easter Sunday.

Without the procession of arriving in Jerusalem, the last supper, the arrest, the mocking, the beating, the Cross, the tomb… there is no resurrection.

So, we have to go through Holy Week to get to Easter Sunday.

So, this Easter time, don’t jump from Palm Sunday with our celebrating of Jesus arrival in Jerusalem to Easter Sunday with celebration of his resurrection, remember Holy Week. Ponder, pray and reflect.

Perhaps you may wish to come to morning or evening prayer, for the Agape meal on Maundy Thursday and the silent vigil afterwards, as we think about the last supper and Jesus’s arrest or the hour at the Cross on Good Friday at 2pm, perhaps you fancy joining us for the parish walk on Saturday morning, complete with donkeys and dogs! Our Holy fire service end the day, as we anticipate Easter and our Son-rise celebrations (checkout our Events page).

Let us remember what Jesus did for us on the cross, and remember that we have to go through the pain of Holy Week, but Easter Sunday will always follow.

God Bless

Revd Sharon