Join with us, as we follow the journey from Palm Sunday to the Resurrection. Holy Week is the most important week of the year, in which we go with Jesus on the road to the Cross and Resurrection. The emphasis is on participation and doing - being part of the drama as it is told and enacted through the week. Doing helps deepen our understanding of what Jesus did for us.
| Palm Sunday 29th March |
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10:00 Sung Eucharist (Holy Communion) and Junior Church at St John's, Hook (also via Zoom) 11:00 Palm Sunday Communion at Rotherwick Church 18:00 Evening Worship at St John's, Hook |
| Monday 30th March - start of Holy Week |
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19:30 Stations of the Cross at St John's, Hook |
| Tuesday 31st March |
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19:00 Passover Meal at St John's, Hook |
| Maundy Thursday 2nd April |
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11:00 Chrism Eucharist in Winchester Cathedral with renewal of the Ministers vows 16:00 Maundy Thursday Holy Communion and stripping of the altar at Mattingley Church 20:00 Maundy Thursday Sung Eucharist at St John's, Hook |
| Good Friday 3rd April |
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8:30 Stations of the Cross at St John's, Hook 9:30 - 12:00 Children's Activity morning at St John's, Hook 10:00 Good Friday Liturgy at St John's, Hook 12:00 Hook Churches Together Walk of Witness leaving from St John's, Hook, back for tea & hot cross buns! 14:00 Reflections for Good Friday at Mattingley Church There is also an online Meditation - spoken word & music which you can listen to from your home |
| Easter Sunday 5th April |
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6:30 Sunrise Easter Communion Service at St John's, Hook, followed by breakfast 10.00 Festival Easter Eucharist & Egg Hunt at St John's, Hook (also via Zoom) with children's activities 11:00 Family Easter Celebration with Communion and eggs at Rotherwick Church 18:00 Easter Evening Worship at St John's, Hook |
Palm Sunday
On Palm Sunday at our morning service we begin the journey, as Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey.
Stations of the Cross
From early times Christians have followed the Via Dolorosa – the walk from Pilate’s house to Calvary, in the Old City of Jerusalem. If anyone has been to Jerusalem, you may have walked these street and visited these places. Pilgrims visiting Jerusalem bought to their home countries images of the walk. Over time these became images like those in St John’s which mark the Stations of the Cross.
During the Stations of the Cross, we walk with Jesus on his last day, we walk round each of the Stations of the Cross. At each station we mediate on each moment, reflecting on the love Jesus shows us on this journey. We recite specific prayers and then move on to the next station.
Easter Sunday
We do not know when Jesus rose from the dead, all we know is that when the women went to the tomb on Easter morning, that the tomb was empty. If Good Friday is the most serious day, then the Easter Day is certainly the most splendid and joyful moment.
We light the Easter or Paschal Candle as Christ is proclaimed as the light of the world.
We renew our baptismal vows together because baptism of christening is into the death and resurrection of Jesus. We then celebrate the Eucharist and our Risen Lord.