Holy Week, Good Friday and Easter 2025
(All held at WvM – Willem van Mechelenstraat 8, the home of All Saints.
Palm Sunday 13th April – Holy Communion – 0930.
This includes the offering of Palm Crosses during Holy Communion.
Monday 14th April – Why is the Cross important? 2000-2100.
✝ Cross-Examined: Why the Cross Matters ✝
❓ Why did Jesus have to die?
❓ What does the cross actually achieve?
❓ Why has it stood the test of time as the symbol of hope for millions?
This Holy Week, join us as we dig deep into four key ways the Bible speaks about the cross 🕊 — and explore why it still matters today. Rev. Daniel will be teaching 💡 and there will be plenty of space for your questions 💬.
Whether you are new to faith 🐾 or have walked this road for years 🛤, this evening will help you see the cross with fresh eyes 👀 — and grasp why it still changes lives today ❤.
Tuesday 15th April – Resurrection on Good Friday? 2000-2100
Matthew 27:45-56 records Resurrection of the dead on the day Jesus dies? What is that all about? How is connected to his crucifixion. Peter Gillies will lead us on a study on those complicated verses.
For a summary of the material – here is a video and audio links.
Wednesday 16th – Morning Prayer at 0700 – 0725 led by Revd Daniel.
Open Church for Personal Prayer – 2000-2130
The Church will be open for personal prayer, silence etc. For your personal preparations in this Holy Week. There is no evening service. This is a time and space we create for you to come and pray. There will be optional prayer stations for you to take advantage of.
You can visit the church at any time between 2000-2130 and spend as much or as little time as you would like.
Thursday 17th – Maundy Thursday – Holy Communion – 2000 – 2130.
Our Holy Communion service, which will include our stripping of the Communion table, and the Watch to close. 90 minutes in length.
Friday 18th April – Good Friday
The Way of the Cross – 0900-1000.
A quiet reflective hour using the suggested Anglican prayers and bible verses for this Anglican version of the Stations of the Cross, which is an ancient tradition of considering the last hours of the Lord Jesus’ life. We begin at 0900 – the hour when Jesus first hung on the cross.
The format: I will, in total, read out 15 sections of text. These are scriptural stations describing moments from Gethsemane to burial and resurrection. We remain sitting or kneeling together in church. The format is a short opening prayer, then a scripture – usually 2 or 3 verses relating to the ”station” then there is around 60-90secs silence then a closing prayer; then I move onto the next station of the cross. No movement, no images. It is a quiet, reflective service of prayer. We begin tomorrow at 0900 – when, based on the scriptural reports, Jesus was first hung on the cross. Below is the content to be used.
Evening Service – 2000 – 2115
Through hymns, worship songs and bible readings we remember and pray, and thank God for the Cross. 75 minutes long.
Saturday 19th April Holy Saturday
Nothing held in church – a day to be still and quiet – reflecting on the week.
We prepare for Resurrection!
20th April – Easter Sunday
We celebrate the resurrection! Two services offered.
0800 BCP Holy Communion. 50 minutes in length. Said book based service (with one hymn); short message, opportunity to receive Communion kneeling.
0930 All Age Holy Communion.
All sorts, all ages, all backgrounds, we join together in worship, with our All Age Holy Communion to worship and adore our Crucified Resurrected King !
He is risen—He is risen indeed, Alleluia!