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WYTHNOS CYN Y PASG Y PASC |
Sun 1 April PALM SUNDAY – The beginning of Holy Week
8.00 am Holy Eucharist (said)
10.30 am Holy Eucharist begining with the Palm Procession, with a donkey
5.00 pm Evening Prayer (said service, with hymns)
Palm Crosses will be available at all services.
Tuesday 3 April: 7.30 pm Stations of the Cross
8.15 pm "Table" Eucharist (an informal Eucharist)
Wednesday 4 April: 9.00 am Eucharist
7.00 pm at LLANGYSTENNIN CHURCH A Service of Light and Shadows for Holy week (a joint service with Rhoscystennin Parish)
Thursday 5 April MAUNDY THURSDAY
11.00 am Holy Eucharist
7.30 pm Eucharist of the Last Supper, including Washing of Feet, followed by Vigil until Midnight.
Friday 6 April GOOD FRIDAY
10.30 am Childrens’ Worship
11.45 am Cytûn - Llandudno Churches Together Walk of Witness from the Town Hall (Lloyd Street) to Holy Trinity
12.00 noon Cytûn Open Air Service at Holy Trinity
2.00 pm GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY
Saturday 7 April EASTER EVE
7.30 pm Easter Liturgy
Sunday 8 April EASTER DAY
8.00 am Holy Eucharist
10.30 am FESTAL EUCHARIST
5.00 pm Choral Evensong
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PALM SUNDAY (The liturgical colour is red for the passion)
There are two main elements in the traditional service for Palm Sunday:
1. The Palm Procession – Hosanna to the Son of David
This is the commemoration of Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem and it consists of the reading of the Gospel account of this event followed by the blessing of Palms and the Palm Procession (sometimes led by a donkey).
2. The Eucharist
The Eucharist proper moves away from the events of the triumphal entry and begins the Church’s solemn commemoration of the Passion. The normal Gospel reading is replaced by the reading of the accounts of the Passion. Often this is done in a dramatized way with several people playing the various parts and the congregation taking the role of the crowd etc.
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Monday – Wednesday (the liturgical colour is red)
There are no special liturgies for these days. The Eucharist is celebrated and there may be devotions such as Stations of the Cross in which we follow Christ on his ‘via dolorosa’ (way of sorrows) to Calvary by moving around the church from one ‘station’ to the next recalling the various events which either the Gospels record or people have imagined might have happened.
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MAUNDY (or HOLY) THURSDAY (the liturgical colour is White)
Traditionally there are two main celebrations of the Eucharist.
In the morning the diocesan clergy gather in the Cathedral for the ‘Chrism Mass’. During this service the clergy renew their ordination vows and the Bishop blesses the holy oils.
In the evening the ‘Mass of the Last Supper’ is celebrated. This service commemorates Christ’s institution of the Eucharist. After the address the ceremony of the Washing of the Feet is enacted reminding us of Christ’s action in washing his disciples’ feet at the Last Supper as a lesson that they must love one another.
After Communion the joy of the Eucharist gives way to desolation mirroring the events which took place as soon as Jesus and the disciples left the upper room. The church is stripped of all its ornaments leaving it bare and desolate.
A silent vigil of prayer is then kept at an ‘altar of repose’ as we seek to watch with Christ as he goes through the agony of Gethsemane and faces arrest and trial. At Holy Trinity a vigil is kept until midnight and people are invited to attend at any time which suits them.
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GOOD
FRIDAY (the liturgical colour is red)On this day the church remains stripped of all ornaments and devotional items. Anglicans have often kept this day with devotional services of prayers, meditations, musical items and hymns sometimes lasting for the ‘three last hours’ of Christ’s time on the cross.
In modern times there are in many places ecumenical processions of witness. In Llandudno, this is followed by an open air service at Holy Trinity.
The main service of the day is the LITURGY OF THE PASSION – sometimes known by Anglicans as the ‘Ante-Communion’. This may consist of:
1) A ministry of the word which includes the reading of the Passion from St John’s Gospel;
2) The solemn prayers of Good Friday or the Litany;
3) A devotion to the Cross – often using a large cross or crucifix as a focus for devotion, which is brought in or unveiled at this point.
4) Some churches (not Holy Trinity at present) also give Communion from the reserved sacrament (the Eucharist itself is not usually celebrated on Good Friday).
To emphasis the solemn character of the day the organ is only used to accompany hymns and no blessing is given.
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HOLY SATURDAY (or EASTER EVE)
(Not to be confused with Easter Saturday – the Saturday after Easter)
This is a ‘non-liturgical’ day – and apart from the offices of Morning and Evening Prayer has no services because we are waiting for the resurrection. However in the evening or in the early morning of Easter Day) is celebrated the EASTER VIGIL or EASTER LITURGY. The Vigil part of the service consists of a number of readings, psalms and prayers in a darkened church. This is preceded or followed by the kindling of the new fire, the lighting of the Easter Candle, the singing of the Exultet (a special Easter chant) and the proclamation of the resurrection with organ playing, the ringing of bells etc. Water for baptism is blessed and the congregation are then invited to renew their baptismal vows. In some churches this is followed by the First Eucharist of Easter, in others the service ends at this point with the first Eucharist delayed until Easter morning.
This year the Easter Liturgy will NOT be held at St Tudno’s, as the church is currently closed for re-roofing.
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EASTER DAY
(The liturgical colour is white)The EASTER EUCHARIST is the most important service of the whole year. It is celebrated with extra rejoicing and the church is richly decorated with flowers etc. making a real contrast with the bareness of the church on Good Friday.
The Easter Candle burns at all the main services throughout the 50 days of Eastertide.
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For details of regular services
in the parish, please see Parish Life
For details of services and events this month, please see the Calendar
For details of special services and events inthe parish, please see Special Events
For infomation on other churches in Llandudno, please see Cytûn - Llandudno Churches Together
For details of services and events this month, please see the Calendar
For details of special services and events inthe parish, please see Special Events
For infomation on other churches in Llandudno, please see Cytûn - Llandudno Churches Together