Holy Week 2023

Palm Sunday - 2 April

The Mass on Palm Sunday begins in the churchyard with the Liturgy of the Palms and the distribution of Palm Crosses, as we recall the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. The Mass continues with a dramatised reading of St Matthew's Passion of Christ
9.00am at St. Peter's.
​11.00am at All Saints.

Holy Monday
3 April

Holy Tuesday 
​4 April

Holy Wednesday
​5 April
6.30pm: Mass with a meditation
at All Saints' 
6.30pm: Mass with a meditation
at St Peter's
6.30pm: Mass with a meditation
​at All Saints' 

The Triduum - The Three Great Days

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Maundy Thursday
6 April

7.30pm: Mass of the Lord's Supper
at All Saints' 
We join Jesus and his disciples in the upper room at the Last Supper
and in the Garden of Gethsemane. 
Church open til midnight for prayer
​at the Altar of Repose

Good Friday
7 April

10.00am: Stations of the Cross
at St. Peter's 

2.00pm: Liturgy of the Lord's Passion at All Saints' 
Reading of St John's Passion
Veneration of the Cross &
Holy Communion
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Holy Saturday
8 April

8pm: Easter Vigil
at All Saints'

We light the new fire of Easter and take the Easter light into the dark church.
Vigil of Readings & first Mass of Easter

Easter Sunday - 9 April

9.00am: Parish Mass at St. Peter's

11.00am: Parish Mass at All Saints' 

The churches are decorated with lilies
and Easter flowers as we celebrate the new life
that the risen Christ brings