 Christ redeemed us all and gave perfect glory to God principally through his paschal mystery: dying he destroyed our death and rising he restored our life. Therefore the Easter Triduum of the passion and resurrection of Christ is the culmination of the entire liturgical year. Thus the solemnity of Easter has the same kind of preeminence in the liturgical year that Sunday has in the week. The Easter Triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil, and closes with Vespers on Easter Sunday. Maundy Thursday
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 Holy Week is magnificent, challenging, powerful, exhausting, intriguing and utterly remarkable. Each year we dive out of our own space and time to be immersed in the great events of salvation - not as a memory or a story, but as a reality which changes our lives and world in a way beyond imagining. Much of this is achieved through the celebration of the liturgy. One of the most challenging aspects of the liturgy of Holy Week - and the Triduum in particular - is that it is different. It is not the usual day by day or week by week liturgy that our parishes celebrate. TUESDAY IN HOLY WEEK THE CROSS - BALANCE OF JUDGEMENT
THE LITURGY 1830 Vespers (Evening Prayer) 1900 MASS & ADDRESS 2130 Tenebrae  Holy Week is magnificent, challenging, powerful, exhausting, intriguing and utterly remarkable. Each year we dive out of our own space and time to be immersed in the great events of salvation - not as a memory or a story, but as a reality which changes our lives and world in a way beyond imagining. Much of this is achieved through the celebration of the liturgy. One of the most challenging aspects of the liturgy of Holy Week - and the Triduum in particular - is that it is different. It is not the usual day by day or week by week liturgy that our parishes celebrate. MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK The Cross - The Tree of Life 
 And so we come to the Passion once more. We can listen to the struggle of Jesus and the struggle of His followers. All of them knew the Scriptures, but only Jesus had a full understanding of what was about to happen. The followers really could not believe that He would be put to death. We are called to recognize that we are part of His followers. Like them, we find it difficult to believe that He will die. Even more difficult for us is to recognize that it is we who help put Him to death by our sin and our lack of love. We must walk with Him today and in this Holy Week, acknowledging our sins and our lack of love and praying that He will raise us up with Him. THE LITURGY NB: We are starting the procession from the Vicarage, so the live stream (link in the sidebar) will pick up from when the procession arrives at the Church.
  The Gospel of the Fifth Sunday is perhaps the deepest meditation on the mystery of Baptism and membership of the Church. It is a prelude to the events of Easter Sunday, when we celebrate the triumph of life over death. To be plunged into the waters of baptism is to be buried with Christ, only to rise with him from the waters. This paradox of life and death is the content of today’s readings. There is no more important part of our faith that the resurrection: that Christ rose from the dead is the very centre and heart of all that we believe - without it, our faith is useless. In the same way our belief in our own resurrection is vital: it is the most deeply needed gift that Christ gives us. This is why the climax of the instructions given to candidates for Baptism was this teaching: that Christ would give them life after death. Look ahead to the 3rd Sunday of Easter, where Saint Peter preaches to the crowds – what he teaches them is that life comes after death, as it did for Lazarus, and for Christ himself. THE LITURGY
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The glorious band of apostles, the noble company of prophets, the white-robed army who shed their blood for Christ, all sing your praises.