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Below you will find resources for Holy Week and Easter

Easter Day Service

The service contains two hymns and you will find the words below

Jesus Christ is risen today

Jesus Christ is risen today

Jesus Christ is risen today

 

Jesus Christ is risen today, alleluia!

our triumphant holy day, alleluia!

who did once, upon the cross, alleluia!

suffer to redeem our loss, alleluia!



Hymns of praise then let us sing, alleluia!

unto Christ, our heavenly King, alleluia!

who endured the cross and grave, alleluia!

sinners to redeem and saved, alleluia!



But the pains that he endured, alleluia!

our salvation have procured; alleluia!

now above the sky he's King, alleluia!

where the angels ever sing, alleluia!


Thine be the glory

Jesus Christ is risen today

Jesus Christ is risen today

Thine be the glory, risen, conqu'ring Son,

endless is the vict'ry thou o'er death hast won;

angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,

kept the folded graveclothes where thy body lay.


Refrain

Thine be the glory, risen, conqu'ring Son,

endless is the vict'ry thou o'er death hast won.


Lo! Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb;

lovingly he greets us, scatters fear and gloom.

Let the Church with gladness hymns of triumph sing,

for her Lord now liveth; death hast lost its sting.


No more we doubt thee, glorious Prince of Life;

life is naught without thee: aid us in our strife.

Make us more than conqu'rors through thy deathless love;

bring us safe through Jordan to thy home above.


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Holy Saturday

Holy Saturday is a time of waiting, when we remember how the disciples waited - not knowing what they waited for. We too wait for our great celebration of Easter Sunday tomorrow, knowing, as we do, what we wait for.

So we change the pace today with a written reflection by David Copley. Please spend time with this as you wait.

 

Matthew 27:57-66

  The Burial of Jesus

When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.


The Guard at the Tomb

The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, ‘Sir, we remember what that impostor said while he was still alive, “After three days I will rise again.” Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day; otherwise his disciples may go and steal him away, and tell the people, “He has been raised from the dead”, and the last deception would be worse than the first.’ Pilate said to them, ‘You have a guard of soldiers; go, make it as secure as you can.’ So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.


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A Prayer

  Lord, we sometimes feel empty; shut in on ourselves, and very alone; or as though we no longer feel anything.  Sometimes, it’s as if we are being pressed down by an enormous rock –  as though we too are in a tomb.

Lord, give us grace to trust you : to trust that you care how we feel;  that you share our emptiness & loneliness; and to trust you to lift the great weight from our hearts.

Lord, we read that your Word is like a two-edged sword or scalpel : Cut through what separates us from feeling you are with us, and from feeling your love; penetrate our darkness; and fill us with the hope of true resurrection. Amen 

Reflection

 As a young man I was used to experiencing the pain and sorrow of Good Friday, to which a really long and boring sermon contributed, then jumping to the joy of Easter Sunday without giving much thought to the day in between. 

When Margaret took me to an Easter Vigil for the first time in the spring before we got married my understanding of that day, Holy Saturday, was transformed.

 

 There was darkness and silence, and a sense of waiting and wondering as we stood outside the large Catholic Church. Then the fire was lit, the light was shared and we walked into the huge dark church, gradually lit by our flickering candles. The liturgy was a masterstroke of suspense. We all knew the end, but….. we still held our breath … ‘This is the Night’ when Jesus lay in his tomb, alone, forsaken, and we felt the pain of it. But ‘this is the night’ when God’s saving power was recalled and prayed for.


 Perhaps today we are all sharing in that Saturday feeling, like the disciples many of us are locked in, alone, frightened, not knowing the end of the story. They were cowering from Roman soldiers seeking to stamp down on possible uprising and on anyone looking or sounding like a Galilean. They were frightened also of the temple leaders defending their power and traditions. We on the other hand are sheltering from a virus that we cannot see but certainly can see its consequences. 


 The bleakness of their situation and the cruel shadow of illness and even death, open us as it would eventually open them, to the possibility of a different way of looking at tomorrow: a way not of flickering, shallow optimism but of strong un-killable hope. 


 For hope is the courage not to be swallowed by despair but, whilst acknowledging the rampant brutality of conflicts and this horrifying pandemic, to trust in the possibility for life and creativity amid and beyond these frightening realities, without ever denying their existence or trivialising their impact. The very realities which banish confidence and legitimise despair also invite a hopeful embrace of love’s living power to prevail in history.


 Then their hope was realised in the transforming power of God’s love as those terrified and confused followers of Jesus became the Pentecost people. Today that hope is already being realised through wonderful stories of caring, openness and creativity. Perhaps our Holy Saturday prayer is that out of this darkness will emerge a new world of mutual responsibility for each other and for our planet.                                       

This great hymn sums it up

 

Now the green blade rises from the buried grain, 

Wheat that in the dark earth many years has lain; 

Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green

In the grave they laid Him, Love Whom we had slain, 

Thinking that He'd never wake to life again, 

Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen: Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green.

Up He sprang at Easter, like the risen grain, 

He that for three days in the grave had lain;

 Up from the dead my risen Lord is seen: 

Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green

When our hearts are saddened, grieving or in pain,

By Your touch You call us back to life again; Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been: 

Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green.

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Good Friday

Below are the words of the hymns which will be played during the reflection. 

Click this link for the reflection

https://soundcloud.com/st-laurence-frodsham/good-friday-reflection

O sacred head surrounded

When I survey the wondrous cross

When I survey the wondrous cross

  

O sacred head, surrounded

by crown of piercing thorn!

O bleeding head, so wounded,

so shamed and put to scorn!

Death’s palid hue comes o’er thee,

the glow of life decays;

yet angel hosts adore thee,

and tremble as they gaze.


Thy comliness and vigour

is withered up and gone,

and in thy wasted figure

I see death drawing on.

O agony and dying!

O love to sinners free!

Jesu, all grace supplying,

turn thou thy face on me.


In this thy bitter passion,

good Shepherd, think of me

with thy most sweet compassion,

unworthy though I be:

beneath thy cross abiding

for ever would I rest,

in thy dear love confiding,

and with thy presence blest


When I survey the wondrous cross

When I survey the wondrous cross

When I survey the wondrous cross

  

When I survey the wondrous cross

on which the Prince of Glory died,

my richest gain I count but loss,

and pour contempt on all my pride.


Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,

save in the death of Christ, my God:

all the vain things that charm me most,

I sacrifice them to his blood.


See from his head, his hands, his feet,

sorrow and love flow mingling down:

did e’er such love and sorrow meet,

or thorns compose so rich a crown?


Were the whole realm of nature mine,

that were an off’ring far too small;

love so amazing, so divine,

demands my soul, my life, my all. 

Maundy Thursday

https://soundcloud.com/st-laurence-frodsham/thursday-talk 


Wednesday in Holy Week

Tuesday in Holy Week

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Palm Sunday

https://soundcloud.com/st-laurence-frodsham/palm-sunday


And if you want to make your own palm cross from paper then this is how you can do it

Make a Palm Cross

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