Holy Week and Easter 2018
Maundy Thursday – 29th March
- Mass of the Lord’s Supper with washing of feet (Sacred Triduum Part 1)
- 7.30 pm – St Hugh’s Church
Good Friday – 30th March
- Ecumenical Walk of Witness
- 9.30 am starting from The Church on Oakwood.
- Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion (Sacred Triduum Part 2)
- 3pm St Alban’s Church
- 3pm St Hugh’s Church
- Stations of the Cross:
- 7pm Ecumenical Service at The Church on Oakwood
Holy Saturday – 31st March
- Swieconka – Blessing of Easter Food:
- 10am St Alban’s Church. The blessing of meat, eggs and bread at the end of Lent is a Catholic tradition particularly popular amongst Polish people. It’s called Swieconka (which is pronounced as: Sh-vee-en-soon-kah). Our Priest will bless the baskets of food, prepared and brought to church by families. The idea is that the baskets of food will be taken back home to be shared amongst family and friends on Easter Sunday. Everyone is welcome to come along for this simple informal service.
- Easter Vigil: with blessing of the fire and lighting of the Easter candle (Sacred Triduum Part 3):
- 7.30pm – St Alban’s Church
Easter Sunday – 1st April
- Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
- 9.00am – St Hugh’s Church
- 10.30am – St Alban’s Church
I attended St Albans for the first time in 20 years today and loved it. I took my 3 children yeara ago and didn’t feel at all comfortable so went back to St Josephs and Our Lady of Lourdes, despite living in Oakwood. Father David is such a.warm friendly priest and the full church shows how happy families are to be at St Albans. Well done
Hi Nina
Thank you for your kind comments. We have a warm and welcoming community at St. Alban’s, made up of all ages as you say. We also consider ourselves very blessed to have Fr David with us. If you visit another time on Sunday we have tea and coffee after mass in the parish hall.
Simon