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- Palm Sunday – 24th of March – Palm Sunday marks when Jesus entered into Jerusalem, later that week he died on the cross and rose again. Holy Week begins with a Procession of Palms & Holy Communion at St. Mary’s in Fen Ditton at 10:30.
- Sunday 24th of March, 19:00 – St. Peter’s Horningsea – Cambridge Vocal Consort will put on the performance: ‘Love Strong as Death: a sequence of music & readings for Passiontide. This will be free entry with a retiring collection. May God bless all whose talent is singing.
- Monday the 25th, 19:30 – St Peters Horningsea – there will be Holy Week Reflection & Compline (a short service of 20 minutes consisting of psalms, silence, a hymn, short reading, prayer, and a blessing). If you haven’t been before come and give it a go! Compline will also be said at our sister parishes at 7:30pm at St. Mary’s Fen Ditton on Tuesday the 26th of March, and at 7:30pm at All Saints Teversham on Wednesday the 27th of March.
- It was on Monday that Jesus cleared the Temple of the moneylenders “‘My Temple will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves” (Lk 19:46)
- Tuesday 26th of March – the Pilgrim Cross group will once again be visiting Horningsea on their Holy Week pilgrimage to Walsingham. They will be calling in to St. Peter’s Horningsea shortly after 10:00- do come to meet them, send them on their way and enjoy coffee and refreshments.
- On Tuesday Jesus warned against the hypocrisy of the Pharisees ‘Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness’ (Matt 23:28)_
- HOLY THURSDAY — Maundy Thursday and the Stripping of the Alters. On Thursday the 28th of March at 7:30pm there will be a service of Holy Communion & the Stripping of the Sanctuary at St. Peter’s Horningsea.
- Maundy Thursday was when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, held the Last Supper and was betrayed by Judas in Gethsemane. The church alter is stripped of its cloths to show that Jesus yielded Himself up into the hands of His enemies to be crucified and that at the crucifixion He was forcibly stripped of His garments._
- GOOD FRIDAY — The Three Hours’ Devotion is held between 12:00 – 15:00 marking the three hours of Jesus agony on the Cross. This is an old rite based on the last words of Jesus with addresses interspersed with hymns and periods of silence.
- 12:00 First Hour at St. Peter’s Horningsea
- 13:00 Second Hour at All Saints Teversham
- 14:00 Third Hour at St.Mary’s Fen Ditton. You can come to one hour or all three, if you’ve never been before then plenty of opportunity to give it a go.
- On Good Friday Jesus was crucified, after a series of events when those with power and responsibility looked after their own interests and would rather exalt and release a guilty murderer into the community than refrain from betraying and unlawfully killing the innocent and good Jesus via one of the most horrific torturous methods we humans have ever invented. Perhaps a lesson for us all to meditate upon. ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. … For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?’ (Matt 16:24-26)
- HOLY SATURDAY – On Saturday the 30th of March at 8:00pm there will be the Lighting of the New Fire & the Easter Vigil at St. Mary’s in Fen Ditton. A fire will be lit from which candles may also be lit.
- This is probably the oldest feature of the Easter celebrations as from its earliest times the Church would keep watch through the night and meditate on the mighty works of God. Christians would pray until the earliest hours of the morning, when Christ’s resurrection was acclaimed.
- EASTER SUNDAY — At 10:30 there will be a service of Holy Communion at St. Peter’s Horningsea as well as at Fen Ditton & Teversham.
- The Resurrection encourages us to live a new life renouncing sin, laying aside our bad habits, subdue our corrupt inclinations, and aiming after virtue and heavenly things. Alleluia! Christ is risen!
April Services
Sunday 7 April – Joint Service in Fen Ditton at 10.30
Sunday 14 April – Village Service in Horningsea at 16.00
Sunday 21 April – Communion Service in Horningsea at 10.30
Sunday 28 April – Joint Service with the Baptist Churches at Marleigh School at 10.30
Sunday 5 May – Three parishes Pilgrimage Walk – starting at Horningsea at 10.30, walking to Anglesey Abbey for lunch and then on to Teversham for 16.00. Arrangements can be made for those who can’t walk that far!
