The e-news comes to you a couple of days early this week, because Claire our administrator, who puts the e-news together, will be off on Good Friday. We’re in the middle of Holy Week, with the three days of the Sacred Triduum still to go (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy/Saturday Easter Eve). Details of all our services for the rest of Holy Week, for Easter Day and for the following week are in … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2024
Holy Week
Next week is Holy Week, the most solemn, the most important week of the Christian year. Starting on Palm Sunday we have services each day, and on each day we remember the days of Jesus’s last week, culminating in Good Friday and the waiting day of Holy Saturday. I encourage you — in fact I urge you — to come to ask many of these as you can, and to enter deeply into the story of Christ’s passion. … [Read more...]
Passiontide
This Sunday when you come into the church you will notice something different about it. This Sunday is the beginning of Passiontide, when our focus moves from Jesus enduring the temptations of the wilderness to Jesus’s journey to the cross. In Passiontide we enter ever more deeply into the story of Christ’s Passion until we come to the three days of the Triduum, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and … [Read more...]
Praying the Psalms
This Lent we have been exploring the Book of Psalms, in our Bible Study, at Compline and Morning Prayer, in our own Bible reading. On Saturday 16th March starting at 11am, Churches Together in Cottingham are running a study morning on Praying the Psalms. There will be interactive prayer stations, a time of meditative reading, and a chance to hear psalms sung in ancient plainchant. The morning will … [Read more...]
Mothering Sunday
This Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent, is Mothering Sunday. We know it as a day to thank God for the love of our mothers, and if we can thank them in person for their care for us. But its history is very different. It began in the Middle Ages as a day when people were encouraged to ‘go mothering’ — that is, return to the church where they were baptised, their ‘mother church’. After the … [Read more...]