Lent and Easter 2022
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For Christians, Easter is the most important season of the year - a time for reflection and learning, filled with the promise of God's grace, redemption and healing. This year, perhaps more than ever, we feel the need of Easter's message of hope and renewal.
But you don't have to share Christian beliefs to know that the observance of Easter is a big part of our cultural heritage and has shaped its art, music and literature. If you would like to explore the symbolism and meaning of Easter, please feel free to join one of our services and know that we will welcome you warmly. To keep everyone safe during the continuing pandemic, we have a mix of public and online only services. Scroll down for details and if in any doubt about a service's details, please call us on 01273 698601. 'Embracing Justice' - Lent Course Mondays, 7 March - 11 April, 2.30 - 3.45pm St Mary's Church Hall (Small) and online - bit.ly/StMarysKTLent All are welcome to join us over the next six weeks as we go on an exhilarating journey through Scripture with Isabelle Hamley to discover how we, as churches, communities and individual Christians, can seek and practice justice even when enmeshed in such a fractured world. Our sessions will draw on insights in the book 'Embracing Justice' by Theological Advisor to the House of Bishops Isabelle Hamley. You may wish to buy the book for the course, but it isn't essential to have a copy. Ash Wednesday Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes Wednesday, 2 March, 12.30pm This service is open to the public with Covid precautions in place. Palm Sunday - Liturgy of the Palms and the Passion Sunday, 28 March, 10am Public service and online - bit.ly/StMarysKT We begin Holy Week on Palm Sunday with the remembrance of Christ's celebrated entry into Jerusalem at the beginning of his last week on earth. The service includes the moving narrative of Christ's Passion from the Gospel of St Mark. Maundy Thursday Eucharist and Vigil Thursday, 14 April, 8pm Public service and online - bit.ly/StMarysKT The Maundy Thursday liturgy commemorates Christ's Last Supper with his disciples and his institution of the sacrament of the Eucharist or Holy Communion. This service will be followed by our usual vigil, representing the Garden at Gethsemane, where Jesus spent the night in prayer before his crucifixion: 'Could ye not watch with me one hour?' Good Friday Liturgy of the Lord's Passion Friday, 15 April, 2pm Public service and online - bit.ly/StMarysKT Our Good Friday service commemorating the suffering and death of Jesus is held at St Mary's at 2 pm. We leave the church in silence. Easter Vigil and the Service of Light Saturday, 16 April, 8pm Public service and online - bit.ly/StMarysKT A beautiful service that begins in darkness and erupts into light and song as we celebrate the risen Christ. Easter Day Sung Eucharist Sunday, 17 April, 10am Public service and online - bit.ly/StMarysKT The culmination of Passiontide - a beautiful, joyous service that brims with the sense of new life, hope and redemption. Back to Services Back to Home |
Jesus is Condemned to Death. Second Station of the Cross, by Hove artist Harry Mileham, 1923.
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