Holy Week and Easter 2014
Monday 14 April 2014
Holy Week commences at St Botolph's and the Rector's related churches
Here are some service details for your attention at our various churches- I hope you will be able to be present for as much as is possible. This Holy Week is 'integrated' across the three City churches of St Botolph without Bishopsgate, St Vedast, and St Anne and St Agnes, Gresham Street.
Monday 14 April
12.15 Mass, St Vedast
13.10 Mass, St Botolph
18.00 Evening Prayer, St Anne and St Agnes
Tuesday 15 April
12.15 Mass, St Vedast
13.10 Mass, St Botolph
18.00 Evening Prayer, St Anne and St Agnes
Wednesday 16 April
12.15 Mass, St Vedast
13.10 A Liturgy of Lamentation, Entreaty and Hope, St Botolph (the astonishing music of Couperin's Trois Lecons de Tenebres)
18.00 Tenebrae, St Anne and St Agnes (polyphonic music sung by Apollo5/VCM)
Thursday 17 April, Maundy Thursday
12.15 Maundy Mass (Said), St Vedast
13.10 Maundy Mass (Sung- Renaissance Polyphony, Vittoria), St Botolph
18.30 Stainer Crucifixion, Liturgical performance, St Vedast
19.30 Period of Reflection and Vigil, St Vedast (concludes 20.30)
Friday 18 April, Good Friday
12.00 Via Crucis, St Vedast (a reflective sequence with arias from the Passion music of JS Bach)
Sunday 20 April, Easter Day
11.00 Great Sung Eucharist of Easter Day, St Vedast- beginning in the Churchyard of St Anne and St Agnes