Eucharist of the Last Supper with Washing of Feet, Stripping of the Altar and Watch of the Passion

Occuring
for 3 hours, 30 mins
Venue
Ely Cathedral
Address
Ely, CB7 4DH, United Kingdom

We commemorate Jesus’ institution of the Eucharist, the night before his death, where bread and wine are named as his body broken and his blood shed for humanity, to restore a people impoverished by sin and mortality into the endless life of God. The president washes the feet of the people to remind us that, like our Lord, our calling is to serve others.

Dr Hammond will preach the sermon. At the end of the Eucharist we hear the Gospel narrative of Jesus’ arrest, and the altar is stripped; its richness and beauty vanishes, to be replaced by darkness, emptiness, and disarray. We maintain a prayer vigil, a Watch in St Dunstan’s Chapel, remembering Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Good Friday Preaching of the Cross and Liturgy of the Day

Occuring
for 3 hours
Venue
Ely Cathedral
Address
Ely, CB7 4DH, United Kingdom

On Good Friday we watch the death of our Lord over the course of three hours, keeping company with disciples, bystanders, scoffers, those for whom Jesus was much beloved; and we stand with all who have witnessed the pains of death.

Midday until c.1.15pm - Preaching of the Cross
Addresses given by Dr Hammond with hymns and readings.

1.30pm - 3pm - The Liturgy of the Day
With the singing of the Passion Gospel by Victoria and the Veneration of the Cross, in which all are invited to participate.

Good Friday Choral Evensong

Occuring
for 45 mins
Venue
Ely Cathedral
Address
Ely, CB7 4DH, United Kingdom

A solemn act of worship for Good Friday, including the passionate and tragic 1993 setting of the Reproaches by John Sanders, a liturgy in which Jesus asks humanity why we inflicted on him such suffering.

Easter Vigil with Baptism and Confirmation

Occuring
for 1 hour
Venue
Ely Cathedral
Address
Ely, CB7 4DH, United Kingdom

Out of the darkness and sorrow of human violence emerges the light and life of God’s presence: in the risen Jesus; in God’s enduring promise to be with his people; in the transforming sacrament of baptism.

This is the first celebration of Easter, with the lighting of the New Fire and the Paschal Candle and the bringing of that resurrection light into a darkened church, the admission of new Christians to baptism and communion, and the rising of light, joy, colour and life for the first time since the events of Good Friday.

Dr Hammond will preach.

Easter Day Orchestral Eucharist

Occuring
for 1 hour
Venue
Ely Cathedral
Address
Ely, CB7 4DH, United Kingdom

A joyful celebration of the risen life of God’s people upon Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.

Bishop Dagmar presides and preaches. With the Ely Sinfonia, accompanying the choir in Mozarts’ Piccolominimesse and for the exuberant anthem, Handel’s Worthy is the Lamb and Amen.

Easter Day Festal Evensong and Procession

Occuring
for 1 hour
Venue
Ely Cathedral
Address
Ely, CB7 4DH, United Kingdom

We hear Stanford’s rich setting of the Canticles in A major, and for the anthem, Peter Philips’ joyful seventeenth-century setting of Ecce vicit leo; ‘See, has triumphed the Lion of Judah, the Root of David… Alleluia!’