Holy Week 2023 at St Paul’s
Palm Sunday – Sunday of the Passion – 2 April
9.30am Procession of Palms and Eucharist
5.00pm Choral Evensong
Monday in Holy Week – 3 April
7:30pm – Holy Eucharist
Tuesday in Holy Week – 4 April
7:30pm – Holy Eucharist
Wednesday in Holy Week – 5 April
7:30pm – Holy Eucharist
Maundy Thursday – 6 April
7:30pm – Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar
Good Friday – 7 April
9.30am – Solemn Liturgy with Holy Communion
3.00pm – Stabat Mater – 13th-century Christian Hymn to Mary
Easter Day 9 April
5.45am – Service of Light, Great Vigil and First Eucharist of Easter
9:30am – Festival Choral Eucharist
Sunday Services
no bookings required for services
7.30 am Holy Eucharist (no singing)
9.30 am Choral Eucharist
5 pm Choral Evensong
Weekdays
Morning Prayer is said Monday-Friday at 9.15am (except Public Holidays)
Holy Eucharist – Tuesday 9.30am
Fridays after first Sunday in Lent until Holy Week 7.30am Holy Eucharist
Services are regularly uploaded to our YouTube channel which can be accessed by clicking here.
Services at St David’s, Red Hill
9am Holy Eucharist Sunday
10am Eucharist on Thursdays
About our Services
We are a liturgical community in the ‘High Church’ tradition of Anglicanism. We value the Anglican heritage of liturgical seasons, reverence, ceremonial and the ethos of worship in the beauty of holiness. The gathering of the community on Sundays ‘lifts up our hearts’, taking us beyond the here and now world of popular culture and consumerism and inviting us to enter into the timelessness of worship. Valuing tradition does not mean our worship is just some sort of museum piece. While Some of the prayers and chants used are traced back to the earliest centuries of the Church, we also value the insights of contemporary creativity (music, hymns and artistic expression) in our worship – ours is very much a living tradition. Above all, the liturgy is an invitation to us all to open our spirits to the sacred and to join with the heavenly worship of the saints and angels.
When you attend one of our services you will receive a printed order of service to follow. This contains the readings and prayers that we use during the service as well as instructions for when to stand, sit or kneel. You may be intrigued by the ways in which some worshippers cross themselves or bow their heads at certain points in the liturgy. These and other aspects of ceremonial and devotional practice are a matter of personal choice and meaningfulness. On Sunday mornings we celebrate the Holy Eucharist, also known as the Mass or Holy Communion. We keep the command of Jesus to break bread and drink wine to remember him and to experience his living presence among and within us. If you have not been baptised or have not become a communicant member of a Christian church you are welcome to come forward at the time of Holy Communion to receive a blessing from the priest instead of the bread and wine. (You may also wish to discuss with the clergy your own circumstances so that you may be admitted to receive Holy Communion either by Baptism, Confirmation or Reception into the Anglican Church.)
Our clergy wear traditional vestments during the liturgy. These are in effect symbolic uniforms that indicate the office that is being exercised and role that is being performed in a service.The colour of vestments and other decorations in the church reflects the liturgical season. The liturgical seasons help us mark the major aspects of the life of Christ and faith throughout a calendar year. The main seasons are Advent ; Christmas ; Epiphany ; Lent ; Easter. The liturgies of each season reflect their distinct theological emphases and moods. The seasons help us to live through the story of faith, and the life of Christ, anew each year.
If there is anything about the service that you don’t understand or would like to know more about, please speak with the clergy and ask questions.