Easter & Holy Week 2020 (Archive Page)

Details for Holy Week & Easter 2021 will be published soon

It is looking very unlikely that we will be able to join together in our Christian community as we usually do due to the Covid-19 crisis.

Our Church continues to be closed at the present time, but this doesn’t mean that we can’t engage and participate together in the story of Jesus’ journey to the Cross and resurrection. The Holy Week story is profoundly at the core of our Christian faith. We warmly encourage you to use the resources that will be added here over the next few weeks that will still allow you to participate at this most holy time.

Visit our Lent page for details of activities 

Virtual Stations of the Cross videos

This virutal Way of the Cross created by Busted Halo is designed for personal devotion. These stations relate to Jesus’ teachings about the Kingdom of God and the reason his vision of this Kingdom led to his death. Find a quiet place to watch these stations, and as you do the devotions be open to how God is speaking to you through the Stations of the Cross.

Read the Passion Gospel at Home for Holy Week

For those of you who would like to read the Passion Story at home on Palm Sunday because you will miss hearing it in Church; Here is a version produced by David Wilbourne that was used in his church last Sunday. You can read it straight or do the simple activities appropriate to each passage as you go along. You could use it on Palm Sunday or save it to use during Holy Week or on Good Friday; It is up to you. Please print it off for your own use and share it as widely as you can with your friends.

Please click here to read the Passion Story

Watch the Passion of Jesus Play

The Way of the Cross:
a free online retreat for Holy Week

The Holy Week story dominates the gospels, and the cross is the central Christian symbol. Yet all too easily this mystery at the heart of Christian faith slips by in the rush of approaching Easter and its transforming potential cannot penetrate deeply into our lives.

Led by David and Helen Newman, at Launde Abbey, this online retreat offers the opportunity to enter deeply into the last week of Jesus’ life, to find ourselves there with all our sadness, weakness and vulnerability, and to discover the life and hope that emerges out of the darkness.

In the midst of the ongoing coronavirus crisis, we’re aware that many people will be unable to engage with their churches and Christian communities over Holy Week. To help sustain your life of prayer and discipleship, Launde Abbey is offering this entire online retreat free of charge.

Each day’s retreat talk will go live the evening before. Once they are online they’ll stay permanently, so you’ll be able to catch up later in the week or listen to the whole series over the Easter weekend (or even later, if that’s helpful!).

Click here to visit the Holy Week Retreat

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STAY AT HOME BUT CONTINUE TO PRAY, TO LOVE, TO CARE FOR THE VULNERABLE

The following was our schedule for Easter 2020 which was also cancelled due to Covid-19

Ash Wednesday 26th February

Start of Lent

9:30 am Said Holy Communion with Ashing

7:30 pm Sung Holy Communion with Ashing

Lent Group Course

The Lent Course for this year will be announced shortly.

Monday evenings 7:30 pm at the Vicarage on 11, 18, 25 March & 1, 8 April.

Sign-up form at the back of Church 

Lent Lunches

Soup lunches will be held every Saturday in Lent from 12:00 – 1:00 pm on 29th February, 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th March and 4th April to raise funds for our lent Charity.

£3 per person for soup, bread and cheese.

Easter Courses from The Church of England

If you are unable to join the Lent Group Course, as an alternative, we encourage you to sign up online and follow the Church of England’s 2020 Lent course.

Click here for more information & to sign up

Palm Sunday 5th April

10:15 am – Procession with palms from the old Library to the Church

10:30 am – Holy Communion with a dramatised reading of the Passion Gospel

During Holy Week

Monday 6th, Tuesday 7th & Wednesday 8th April

7:30 pm – Compline with short meditation each evening

Maundy Thursday 9th April

7:30 pm – Holy Communion with foot washing, stripping of the altar followed by a vigil until midnight

Good Friday 10th April

12:00 pm – Walk of Witness, starting from the Catholic Church
and stopping outside the Co-Op and the old Barclays before
finishing in All Saints Churchyard. This is a Churches Together Holbeach event.

1:00 pm – Soup & bread Lunch at All Saints.

2:00 pm – At the Foot of the Cross – readings, hymns & prayer.

Holy Saturday 11th April

7:30 pm – Easter Eve Vigil at the Cross – readings, psalms & prayers at the empty cross.

Easter Day 12th April

5:30 am – Easter Dawn Service in the Vicarage Garden
An informal service with bonfire & watching the sunrise
followed by breakfast.

10:30 am – Holy Communion for Easter Day.

6:30 pm – Deanery Evensong.

We hope that your encounter with Jesus at this holy time will inspire you to explore your faith further.
Our Ministry team are always available to help in an unpressured, friendly and welcoming way.