Palm Sunday marks the beginning of ‘Holy Week’, the final week of the season of Lent, where we recall Jesus entry into Jerusalem the week before his death, where He was met by the crowds with honour and praise through the waving of palm branches. We’ll be coming together as a whole parish to worship in unity as we prepare to head into the ‘deepest’ part of the Christian year, celebrating the paschal mystery of Christ’s death and resurrection.

The first day of the ‘Paschal Triduum’, Maundy Thursday takes its name from the Latin word mandatum, meaning a mandate or an injunction, reflecting the words of Christ at the last Supper, “A new commandment, I give unto you, that you love one another, as I have loved you.” Maundy Thursday is a remembrance of several other things too; Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, the institution of the Eucharist, His agony in the garden of Gethsemane, His betrayal by Judas Iscariot, and His subsequent arrest. We will be gathering at P&P for a contemplative candlelit service of Holy Communion.

St Peter & St Paul church will be open during the afternoon of Good Friday as a space for prayer and contemplation. We will have prayer stations that you may work through based on the seven last words spoken from the Cross (taken from each of the four Gospels).

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed.

To celebrate the joy of Easter at St Peter & St Paul we have a family friendly service of the word.

We’d love to see you there.