Holy Week & Easter 2015
Holy Week & Easter 2015
Holy Monday 30th March Chrism Mass at our Mother Church of Our Lady of the
Assumption with St. Gregory, Warwick Street W.1. London at 11.30am. Papal
Nuncio presiding.
Holy Tuesday 31st March at St Peter’s Eastwood, Mass 9.30am followed by Rosary
and Confessions. Adoration until noon
Holy Wednesday 1st
April at St Peter’s Eastwood, Mass 9.30am
followed by Rosary and confessions. Adoration until noon.
Holy Thursday 2nd
April. at St. Peter’s Eastwood The Holy Triduum begins –the great three days of the Lord’s Passion Death and Resurrection.
7pm Confessions.
8pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper with
ceremonies and watch until Midnight at the Altar of repose.
Good Friday 3rd April. St Peter’s Eastwood, 9.15am Office of Readings and Morning Prayer 10am Stations of the Cross with our children. 3pm the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion.
6pm Maria Desolata (Stations with Our Lady)
Holy Saturday 4th
April at St Peter’s Eastwood, 10am Office of Readings and Morning Prayer
Confessions 6pm.
7.30pm The Easter
Vigil at St Peter’s Eastwood, –First Mass
of Easter with reception of adults into the Catholic Church, followed by celebratory drinks in the
narthex. Easter Sunday 5th April Sung Mass of the Day in
thanksgiving of the Resurrection
10.30am at St. Pius X Hockley.
Masses at Eastwood 8.30am of the Dawn 10am of the Day 6pm Evening Mass
The
holiest of weeks…
Dear friends,
Today ( Palm Sunday) we enter Jerusalem, as our
church becomes that place for the liturgies of the holiest of weeks. Jesus arrives, riding on a donkey; such great humility displayed
so lovingly by the Son of David who comes in the name of the Lord, hosanna in
the highest!
This is the week, above all others
that we put all earthly priorities aside to journey with Jesus. We will share
in his Last Supper, his agony in the Garden, arrest and trial, the scourging,
the carrying of the cross and finally his death at Golgotha. If we neglect to
accompany our Lord on this journey then I’m afraid the Glory of Easter Day will
be void of its true significance and meaning? Therefore I urge each and every
one of you to attend the solemn liturgies
of the great three days that make up the Triduum, at St Peter’s.
Sharing these great events in
communion with each other will help us to really participate in the passion,
death and resurrection of Christ. We affirm our own Baptismal promises at the
Easter Vigil to recall that we too will die and rise as a new creation. This
theme is central to the Pasch that we celebrate. Before that we are reminded at
the moving mass of the Lord’s Supper on the evening of Holy Thursday that Jesus
washed the feet of his disciples as an example of loving service to all.
Our Holy Father, Pope, Francis, is a living
witness and Apostle to the truth, teaching and reminding each and every one of
us just what it means to be a true servant and disciple in today’s self-centred
world. May we learn from his humility and actions, for they are nothing but the
actions of the great Servant King himself, Jesus Christ, of whom we are called
by name to follow?
And so please spend time with Our
Lord this holiest of all weeks? Come and enter into the very mystery of our
salvation by watching and praying with him who came from heaven to share in our
humanity, to suffer and to die, so that we might live: Hosanna in the highest!!
Wishing you all, a very blessed Holy Week.
Your priest and friend, Fr. Jeff
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