Month: March 2021

Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and Easter 2021

Please remember to put your clocks forward an hour this Sunday morning.

This Sunday (28th March 2021) is Palm Sunday, and marks the start of Holy Week. Through Holy Week we move towards Christ’s death on the cross. Then at Easter we celebrate his resurrection.

Everyone is welcome to join us for any of our services through Holy Week and Easter. When coming to church please remember to wear to mask, to sanitise your hands as you enter the church building, and to keep to social distancing guidelines. From 29th March 2021, up to 6 people or 2 households can meet outside, so we will be able to fellowship again outside the church building after our Easter services. We cannot, however, offer tea or coffee after our services at this time.

Our Holy Week and Easter services are as follows:

Palm Sunday (28th March 2021)

11 AM: Mass

Spy Wednesday (31st March 2021)

12:15 AM: Mass

Good Friday (2nd April 2021)

7 PM: Passion of Christ (Liturgy of Good Friday)

Easter Vigil (3rd April 2021)

7 PM: Mass

Easter Sunday (4th April 2021)

11 AM: Mass

For anyone who is isolating and unable to attend church, the following online services are also available:

Palm Sunday 28 March

at 9am in Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

Mass

https://youtube.com/c/TheAnglicanShrineofOurLadyofWalsingham

Tuesday 30 March

at 11.30am in Pusey House, Oxford

Ebbsfleet Chrism Mass

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChapterofPuseyHouse

Good Friday 2 April

at 12 noon in Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

Stations & Veneration of the Relic of the True Cross

https://youtube.com/c/TheAnglicanShrineofOurLadyofWalsingham

Easter Day 4 April

9 am in Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

Mass

https://youtube.com/c/TheAnglicanShrineofOurLadyofWalsingham

6 pm in Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

Regina Coeli & Shrine Prayers

https://youtube.com/c/TheAnglicanShrineofOurLadyofWalsingham

Stations of the Cross

The Society is delighted to support an excellent initiative from the parish of St Stephen, Gloucester Road whereby a devotional video on each of the Stations of the Cross will be released daily from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday. We offer this video with our prayers for the work and witness of that parish and all other Society parishes as they prepare for the climax of the Church’s year over Holy Week and Eastertide.

#LiveLent

The Bishop of Ebbsfleet has released an Easter Letter, the letter can be read here:

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Please have a blessed Holy Week and a Happy Easter.

Passiontide 2021

This Sunday (21st March 2021) is Passion Sunday, and marks the beginning of Passiontide. Services at St. Edmund’s continue in their normal pattern:

11 AM Sundays – Mass

12:15 PM Wednesdays – Mass

Easter Services are still to be finalised, however there will be an Easter Vigil Mass at 7 PM on Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday Mass at 11 AM as usual.

We will not be open for Stations of the Cross on Good Friday; however, The Society have published this booklet so the Stations of the Cross can be celebrated at home:

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The Pastoral Statement can be downloaded here:

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We look forward to seeing you at St. Edmund’s this Passiontide, as we walk with Jesus towards his death on the Cross. Please remember to sanitise your hands, and social distance while in church.