We travelled the long Lenten journey with Jesus, reflecting on the gifts of the covenant, the rainbow arch of God’s love, the promise of descendants, the gift of the Ten Commandments, the promise of healing in the desert and the law of love written on our hearts. In Holy Week we entered Jerusalem, [...]
Throughout Holy Week we will be using symbols derived through Lent from stories of God’s covenant love and promise to inspire our prayer and worship – the rainbow of hope, the stars of promise, the stones of groundedness, the snakeskin of growth and the heart of love. Palm Sunday, 28th March, 9:30am Maundy Thursday, 1st [...]
Holy Week this year will be unlike any before. Members of the worship committee have worked together to plan each of our four services. Lots of people have been invited to provide recordings of readings and prayers. All of the segments have been recorded and compiled into a whole service that will be our [...]
Palm Sunday Alongside the live stream on Sundays you can also connect to worship by reading the Sunday Prayer Post each week – Sunday Prayers 5/4 listening to the Sermon post each week – Are you ready to walk into this week? The full order of service for Palm Sunday is available here. You can also [...]
During Holy Week we carried our Lenten listening on a pilgrimage through our worship. We sang a pilgrim’s greeting - ‘Peace, Salaam, Shalom’. We marked our listening with a story staff, beautifully sculpted and carved by Colin Hunter. We remembered and placed the stories of our time alongside Jesus’ story. We responded to the [...]
Our worship during Holy Week will offer a series of stations, a pilgrimage, which will allow us to respond to and honour the contemporary stories that we have been listening to during Lent. We want to allow the voices of the children, the victims, the survivors, the communities, the people who are not heard, [...]
Holy Week was an amazing experience of engaging with the central stories of our faith through actions, prayers, story telling, images and rituals. We drew on the rich traditions of our faith, our local customs and the enormous generosity, gift and talents of our congregation. Palm Sunday Holy Week [...]
Maundy Thursday A quiet service of prayer and reflection including the celebration of Holy Communion. The intimacy of this smaller (in numbers) service offers us an opportunity to listen differently. There will be a sustained time of listening, an invitation to listen in an intentional way. During the service there will be an invitation [...]
Maundy Thursday Jesus, light of the world, as darkness begins its descent on the day, we come to this quiet place of reflection to remember the final events of your life. As you draw nearer to the cross, we draw near to you. Listening to the familiar accounts of your disciples, we seek new [...]