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Why do you look for the living among the dead?
He is not here, but has risen.
- Luke 24:5b
Wednesdays 26 March, 2 April, and 9 April 19:30 to 20:30
Three online meditations to help us focus on Jesus’s death and what it means for us.
We will be basing these on three words from the Nicene Creed, the statement of Christian faith we recite in communion services and which is 1700 years old this year. All welcome; link here or use Meeting ID: 825 5486 0102 and Passcode: 98817.
26 March ‘Crucified’ – Canon Kathryn
02 April ‘Dead’ – Canon Philip
09 April ‘Buried’ – Dean Simon
Saturday 12 April 11.00 to 12.30 in Treacy Hall
If you’ve ever wondered why we do what we do during the Holy Week services and what it all means, this talk is for you!
Offering – in an often light-hearted way – a brief history of the main Holy Week liturgies and highlighting some of the more colourful rituals from the medieval era, many of which are still observed today, Canon Kathryn will guide us through the symbols, processions, and ceremonial of the services from Palm Sunday to Easter Day, and help us better understand the importance of these services in our observance of this most holy Week. The talk will conclude with a short service of Midday Prayer. All are welcome.
We warmly welcome The Very Revd Andrew Nunn as our Maundy Thursday and Good Friday preacher for 2025.
Until July 2023, Andrew Nunn was the Dean of Southwark. Having been ordained in Ripon Diocese in 1983 and serving in parishes in Leeds until 1995, Andrew then moved to the Diocese of Southwark where he was Bishop’s Chaplain before moving to the Cathedral in 1999 where he was firstly Sub Dean and Precentor before becoming dean in 2012. Andrew has served the church in many capacities including 18 years as a member of General Synod. In retirement he is Chaplain to the Strategic Leadership Development Programme of the Church of England and continues to teach and lead retreats amongst other things. He has written a number of devotional books including one for Passiontide and Holy Week called ‘The Hour Is Come’ which is published by Canterbury Press.
The series of sermons that Andrew will be preaching over the Great Three Days, the Triduum, leading up to Easter Day have been given the title ‘The Toolbox of Salvation’. Andrew writes: ‘I remember dad’s toolbox, in the shed. It contained all the tools, the nails, the screws that he needed to do odd jobs around the house. We opened the box and smelt the smell of wood and putty, of rusting iron and all that makes the toolbox a ‘cabinet of curiosities’. The church has traditionally gathered such a toolbox in which we have placed the instruments of the passion that would be used on the way to salvation. As we approach the events we re-encounter each Holy Week, we open the toolbox to see what those objects say to us today.’
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