Lent, Holy Week & Easter 2026
You are most welcome to the following, as well as our usual Sunday and weekday services
LENT
CONFIRMATION PREPARATION
Confirmation preparation for secondary-school age children begins on 3 March.
Please contact Fr Paul for more information or if you would like your child
to be signed up. Bishop Guli is due to visit us and confirm our candidates on
26 April.
There’s still time to sign up adults for baptism/confirmation as well,
please do contact Fr Paul or the Parish Office (see contactat bottom of the page)
BIBLE STUDY: 1 CORINTHIANS
Thursdays
St Bart’s, Lady Chapel
11:00-12:00
19th Feb Chapters 1 Introduction; Call
26th Feb Chapters 2-4 Divisions
5th March Chapters 5-10 Morality & Conscience
12th March No Bible Study
19th March Chapters 11-14 Worship
26th March Chapters 15-16 The Resurrection
MOTHERING SUNDAY (15 March)
8am Eucharist at St Mary’s
10am Parish Mass for Mothering Sunday at St Mary's with All Age Address
10am Eucharist for Mothering Sunday at St Bart's
10am Mass for Mothering Sunday at St Bart's
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
Palm Sunday (29 March)
8am Eucharist at St Mary’s
10am Procession and Joint Parish Eucharist at St Bart’s
No 10am services at St Mary's or St Edmund's on Palm Sunday
Monday of Holy Week (30 March)
12.15pm Eucharist at St Ed’s
Tuesday of Holy Week (31 March)
6.30pm Eucharist at St Bart’s followed by fellowship supper
No Eucharist at St Ed’s
Wednesday of Holy Week (1 April)
6.30pm Eucharist at St Mary’s
Maundy Thursday (2 April)
8pm EUCHARIST OF THE LAST SUPPER, with watch until 10pm at St Mary’s
9.45pm St Bart’s Night Prayer and stripping of the altar
9.45pm St Edmund’s Night Prayer and stripping of the altar
No Eucharist at St Bart's
Good Friday (3 April)
10am Children & Families' service at St Mary’s
10am Stations of the Cross St Edmund’s
11am St Bart’s - walk with the cross to The Market Place, Myrtle Road, for Ecumenical Act of Witness
12.30pm Stations of the Cross at St Bart’s
2pm SOLEMN LITURGY OF THE LORD’S PASSION at St Mary’s
Holy Saturday (4 April)
8pm EASTER VIGIL at St Mary’s
Easter Day (5 April)
8am Eucharist at St Mary’s
10am Festal Eucharist
at all our churches: St Mary’s, St Bart’s, St Ed’s