Palm Sunday
11.00 am. Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer)
Hymns: 128 (omit vv. 7 and 8), 129, 112, 127.
Vicar: Hosanna to the Son of David, the King of Israel; Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!
All: Hosanna to the Son of David, the King of Israel. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, during Lent we have been preparing by works of love and self-sacrifice for the celebration of our Lord’s death and resurrection. Today we come together to begin this solemn celebration in union with the Church throughout the world. Christ enters his own city to complete his work as our Saviour, to suffer, to die, and to rise again. Let us go with him in faith and love, so that, united with him in his sufferings, we may share his risen life.
God our Saviour, whose Son Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem as Messiah to suffer and to die; let these palms be for us signs of his victory and grant that we who bear them in his name may ever hail him as our King, and follow him in the way that leads to eternal life; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.
Gospel Reading: Matthew 21: 1-11
Tuesday 31st March: 12.00 noon. Holy Communion
Wednesday 1st April: 12.00 noon. Stations of the Cross – at St. Wulstan’s RC church
Maundy Thursday 2nd April: 7.00 pm. Holy Communion of ‘The Last Supper’
Good Friday 3rd April: 10.30 am. Churches Together Act of Witness outside Great Malvern Priory. 12.00 noon. (LMP) Good Friday service of hymns and readings with address
Easter Day 5th April: 11.00 am. Family Communion (Common Worship) with the St. Giles’ Singers
On Sunday 12th April there will be a service of Choral Evensong at 4.00 pm, sung by a visiting choir ‘Cantus’.
Our Annual Parochial Church Meeting will take place on Monday 18th May, at 6.00 pm in church. At this meeting reports are given on the business of the PCC in the last year; accounts are approved and elections held for the positions of churchwardens, parochial church council members and deanery synod representatives.