We warmly invite you to join our Lent study group hosted by our Priest Vicar, The Revd Charlie Kerr. We will be using Bishop Steven’s popular ‘Come and See’ course, which sees us engage in an open discussion prompted by a short film from the Bishop each week. The sessions will be followed by an optional opportunity to join together for 30 minutes of Contemplative Prayer at the shrine, followed by a sandwich lunch. If you are interested in coming along, please email Charlie at [email protected].

Join us at St Frideswide's shrine for 'Strong Peace' (a translation of Frideswide's name), our Lenten contemplative prayer series. We will be following a sequence of five Contemplative Practices from the Diocesan Contemplative Toolkit each week based on Ignatian spirituality and other ancient pathways of prayer: Stilling, Noticing, Dwelling, Mending and Blessing. Anyone is welcome to join us from different ages and stages of life, and with any level of interest in Christian faith. There will be an informal sandwich lunch after each session in the Priory Room. Please email [email protected] to express your interest and so that we can ensure we can be as hospitable as possible.

Holy Week at Christ Church begins with our Palm Sunday procession to the Cathedral, singing hymns and led by a donkey. We meet in the Memorial Garden (at the gate to Christ Church Meadow from St Aldates), where palm crosses will be given out and blessed before we process down St Aldates together. At the Cathedral, the Passion Gospel is sung during our Choral Eucharist, and the Revd Canon Peter Moger will give the first of this year's Holy Week sermon series.

This special service of Evening Prayer for Holy Monday includes sung hymns and organ accompaniment. A sermon will be preached by The Revd Canon Peter Moger as part of our Holy Week series of sermons and addresses.

Christ Church Cathedral Choir and acclaimed chamber orchestra Britten Sinfonia join forces for James Macmillan's 'Seven Last Words from the Cross' in this year's Choral Meditation for Holy Week. Commissioned by the BBC in 1994, this work presents the last seven sentences uttered by Christ in the four gospels. Interspersed between the movements are addresses from The Revd Canon Peter Moger, helping us to delve more deeply into the theological and musical content of the piece. As always, the Choral Meditation for Holy Week is presented as an act of worship, and a gift to the people of the city and Diocese of Oxford. Therefore, entrance is free, and no booking is required.

Our evening worship Wednesday in Holy Week features Philip Moore's 'Via Crucis', performed by our Sub-Organist Richard Moore. The Via Crucis, or the Way of the Cross, is a devotional practice based on the path Jesus walked on his journey from condemnation to crucifixion. This inspired Eric Milner-White's 'A Procession of Passion Prayers (1950)', which are realised in music this evocative work. The Revd Canon Peter Moger will also give an address during this service as part of our Holy Week Series. This performance is offered as an act of worship; therefore, entrance is free and no booking is required.

We welcome friends from across the Diocese when we host this special service on Maundy Thursday. At the Chrism Eucharist, oils are blessed for use in baptism, confirmation and anointing for healing and distributed for use over the coming year. Our Bishops, clergy and Licensed Lay Ministers will also renew their ordination and licensing promises and affirm their belief and ministry. If you would like to robe and join the procession in this service, you are very welcome to. You will need to get in touch before the day, and we will share more details closer to the time.

Join us as we begin the 'sacred triduum' (the special three day cycle of services remembering the betrayal, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus) with the traditional remembrance of the Last Supper. The Liturgy of Maundy Thursday marks the beginning of the final act of the Passion narrative. We remember Jesus and his disciples celebrating together the Passover, before Jesus goes to the garden of Gethsemane. The service ends in silence with the altars and sanctuary stripped of their vestments. You are invited to witness this and remain in the Cathedral until midnight if you wish. If you would like to participate in the washing of feet, please email the Succentor at [email protected].

Like the disciples, we keep silent vigil in the night with Jesus, following our remembrance of the Last Supper. Christ is symbolized by the consecrated bread on the altar of the Lady Chapel, while greenery placed around reminds us of the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus awaited his arrest. The Cathedral will be open until midnight - simply ask at the Lodge on St Aldates and you will be admitted. You are very welcome to join us in reflection as we prepare for Good Friday.

On the morning of Good Friday, we gather to remember the Passion of Jesus. The service begins in the same silence that was kept through the night. We hear the story of Jesus' crucifixion and death, with a sung Passion Gospel. A great cross, representing the cross on which Jesus suffered and died, becomes a symbol of the paradox of Good Friday: that through suffering, God brings healing and hope to all.

Come with us on a journey around the Cathedral as we explore the story of Holy Week and Easter together in this interactive and family-friendly service. Followed by hot cross buns and hot chocolate.

Come along to this reflective Choral Evensong for Good Friday, including the conclusion of this year's Holy Week sermon series, preached by The Revd Canon Peter Moger, Cathedral Sub Dean.

At the climax of Holy Week and the culmination of the sacred triduum, we complete our Lenten journey together in a blaze of light. Join us for this joyful service of celebration, including confirmations and the First Eucharist of Easter, presided at for the final time by The Bishop of Oxford, The Rt Revd Dr Stephen Croft.

We begin our celebrations on Easter Day with a service of Choral Matins, sung by the Cathedral Choir. Our sermon is preached by The Dean, The Very Revd Professor Sarah Foot.

He is risen indeed! Alleluia! We come together on this most special of mornings to celebrate the Easter miracle. The Bishop of Oxford, The Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft, will preside at the service and preach our Easter sermon.

We conclude Holy Week with the joyful sound of Festal Evensong. All are welcome!