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The document is an invitation to celebrate Holy Week and Easter 2017 at Holy Angels and Holy Family, emphasizing the significance of the liturgy in renewing Christian life through commemorating Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. It outlines the schedule for various services, including Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday, and encourages participation, especially among children. Additionally, it offers arrangements for home communion for those unable to attend and highlights the importance of fasting and reflection during this sacred time.

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Holy-Week-2017

The document is an invitation to celebrate Holy Week and Easter 2017 at Holy Angels and Holy Family, emphasizing the significance of the liturgy in renewing Christian life through commemorating Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. It outlines the schedule for various services, including Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday, and encourages participation, especially among children. Additionally, it offers arrangements for home communion for those unable to attend and highlights the importance of fasting and reflection during this sacred time.

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An invitation to celebrate

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER


2017
at Holy Angels, Ash
and
Holy Family, Heath End

The worship of Holy Week and Easter is an annual invitation to renew our
Christian life. At the heart of our faith stands Jesus Christ crucified and risen.
Centuries of Christian experience have proved that the liturgy of this week has
power, through the Holy Spirit, to draw us to Him anew. The services of this
week commemorate the various events of the last week in Jesus’ earthly life.
But taken together as a whole they form an extended celebration of the victory
He won over death, because the cross and resurrection are inseparable. The
services and ceremonies of Holy Week enable us more wholeheartedly to
share the celebration and experience of Easter.
If you know of anyone from our congregations who is unable to attend Church
over this period because of sickness or infirmity please let Fr Robin or Deacon
John know and they will be happy to arrange communion at home around
Easter.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Fr Robin will be available to hear confessions during the church cleaning at
Holy Angels on 8th April, and after the masses on Monday, Tuesday &
Wednesday of Holy Week, and after the Office of Readings on Holy Saturday.

CHILDREN
Children are very welcome at all our services. They are part of our community
and we encourage you to relax with them and let them join in in their own
way. We don’t expect them to behave like adults! In addition the Way of the
Cross on Good Friday is particularly aimed at children. Older children may
also find the Easter Vigil service different and interesting.

PALM SUNDAY (9th April)


“Hosanna to the Son of David.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”
HA 5.30pm SATURDAY VIGIL MASS
HF 9.15am PROCESSION OF PALMS AND MASS
HA 11.00am PROCESSION OF PALMS AND MASS
On Palm Sunday the Church commemorates Christ’s entry into Jerusalem to
accomplish His saving work by dying and rising again. The liturgy of the day
has two distinctive features, the PROCESSION and the reading of the
PASSION GOSPEL.

MONDAY 10th April – WEDNESDAY 12th April


There will be mass every day to enable us to prepare for the Three Holy Days.
Monday HA 9.30am
Tuesday HF 9.30am
Wednesday HA 9.30am

THE THREE HOLY DAYS (TRIDUUM)


It is the turn of Holy Angels to host the Triduum. I would especially appeal to
our parishioners from Holy Family to make the extra effort to attend these
services. Having made the journey through Lent together as priest and people
it is a loss not to be able to celebrate the heart of our catholic year together.
MAUNDY THURSDAY (13th April)
“Where charity and love are, there is God.”

HA 7.30pm MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER


followed by Watch at the Altar of Repose until Midnight.

Maundy Thursday marks a new beginning – the beginning of the end. From
this point on, our Christian worship is a continuous unity through to Easter, the
TRIDUUM or THREE DAYS.

At the end of the Mass the Blessed Sacrament is reserved for our communion
on Good Friday. THE ALTAR OF REPOSE, where the Lord is placed,
becomes our Gethsemane, where Jesus asks us to watch with Him and pray.
Everyone present is urged to keep watch with Jesus for a time either at the end
of the service or later in the evening.

GOOD FRIDAY (14th April)


“We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you,
because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.”
HA 9.15am Walking the Way withJesus
A children’s version of the Stations of the Cross
10.30am United Service of Witness at Ash Wharf.
We gather outside St Peter’s Church, Ash at 10.00 a.m. to
walk together to the service. There is also a children’s
workshop in St Peter’s Church Centre.
12.00noon Farnham walk of Witness begins from Hart car park.
HA 3.00 p.m. THE LITURGY OF THE LORD’S PASSION
THE LITURGY is the most important worship of Good Friday and should be
our priority over attendance at other services. The theme of this day’s worship
is the Crucified Lord.
Good Friday is a Day of Fasting and Abstinence. We are encouraged to enter
into the solemn mood of the day by eating and drinking less and more simply
– and by abstaining from meat. A good rule is one meal and two snacks during
the day. The Fast should properly extend until the Easter Vigil.
HOLY SATURDAY (15th April)
“We were buried with Christ by baptism, that as Christ was raised from the
dead, we too might walk in newness of life.”
HA 9.30am Office of Readings
HA 8.30pm PASCHAL VIGIL AND FIRST EUCHARIST OF EASTER

The Vigil is the Feast of all Feasts for Christians and the climax
of the season of Lent and the commemorations of Holy Week.
This celebration should be seen as the greatest observance of the
Christian Year and the foretaste of the Everlasting Easter.
Everyone should be there! In word and ceremony the Church
celebrates Christ’s resurrection as the fulfilment of God’s
unending care for His people, and as the beginning and source of
our baptised life in Christ.
Although not required the Church encourages us to keep Holy Saturday as
another day of Fasting and Abstinence- until the Easter Vigil.
EASTER DAY (16th April)
“Alleluia. Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia.”
HF 9.15am EASTER MASS
HA 11.00am EASTER MASS
Easter Day is the Sunday of Sundays, the first day of the new creation, which
extends into a season of joyful reflection on the resurrection of the Lord. The
miracle of the resurrection lies not only in the triumph of Jesus over death, but
also in the experience of every Christian who has died to sin and has risen with
Christ in baptism. Christ’s victory at Easter is the beginning of our own
victory and redemption in Him. In the Mass we meet the risen Lord, coming to
share with us His own endless life. For that reason the Church expects all
communicant Catholics to receive Communion at this feast.

Father Robin and Deacon John wish you all a very Happy Easter.

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