EASTER SERVICES 2006

 

MAUNDY THURSDAY- 13 April
7-30pm United Communion Methodist Church
7-30pm Mass of the Lord's Supper  Havant RC
9-OOpm Holy Hour  Havant RC


GOOD FRIDAY- 14 April
9-30am "The Way of the Cross" United procession from church to church. Starts at the Catholic Church in New Brighton Road. Ends at the Baptist Church with a soup lunch.
9-30am Service of Reflection Warblington t
10-OOam Stations of the Cross  Havant RC
2-OOpm An Hour at the Cross St. James
3-00pm The Passion of Christ  Havant RC3-OOpm 3-30pm Haydn Little Organ Mass St. James
Performed by the United Choir


EASTER SATURDAY 15 April
6-30pm Easter Vigil Havant RC

EASTER SUNDAY 16 April
6-OOam Sunrise Bonfire Service
On the foreshore at the end of Warblington Road
8-OOam Holy Communion Warblington
8-OOam Holy Communion St. James
9-OOam Easter Mass Emsworth RC
10-OOam Easter Family Communion St. James
10-OOam Easter Communion Methodist Church
10-30am Easter Celebration Baptist Church
11-00am Easter Family Service Waterside URC
11-OOam Easter Communion Warblington
11-OOam Easter Mass  Havant RC
6-OOpm Mass Emsworth RC
6-30pm Easter Evening Worship Baptist Church
6-30pm Evensong St. James
Easter is the most important festival of the Christian faith; it is central to all that Christians believe, with the message that God brings new life out of death. In the northern hemisphere it coincides with spring, when nature itself is emerging from dormancy.
However Easter begins on a sombre note, beinc preceded by the weeks of Lent, traditionally a time of abstinence (in the past a practical necessity due to the lack of fresh food).
Towards the end of Lent we begin to reflect on the impending death of Jesus, (his "Passion") and the week before Easter he enters Jerusalen in triumph on Palm Sunday.
During Holy Week the drama unfolds, as Jesus shares a last meal with his friends, before beinc betrayed and abandoned to face death alone. It seems that even God has deserted him.
All this is eclipsed by the joy of Easter Sunday, when we gather to celebrate that Christ is risen
The Christians of Emsworth invite you to share in the commemoration of this greatest of all stories of life, death and eternal life.

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