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Holy Week at St Werburgh’s has at its heart the Holy Week Retreat
This year perhaps more than any other, we have a need to retreat. Nearly all of us are at the moment staying at home. The retreat is designed to be undertaken at home with all our group work and one to one meetings taking place online. Here is an opportunity for you to use this time of retreat make a retreat if you want to.
- It costs nothing.
- You don’t have to go away and it fits around your life.
- You definitely don’t need any experience.
- And you definitely don’t need to be holy!
- You just need a curious heart….
People go on retreat for lots of reasons… life change, illness, big decision to make, or just because you like the idea of time to pray… time for you… time for God.
So this is what it involves: you meet each day with your retreat guide where, when and for however long works for you and they will enable you to do what you want… talk and issue through… try different ways of praying… read the bible, sit in silence… its different for each person and you set the pace……..…and that’s it!
We gather online as a retreat at the start and the finish but apart from that its up to you what services you want to access via your phone or computer…the pattern of services are all listed below, there’s morning and evening prayer and Mass every day… but the point is the retreat fits around you.
People sometimes want to know if they need to do any preparation… there isn’t need to do anything, but if you want to read something then ‘In Search of a Way’ by Gerard Hughes SJ is not a bad place to start…
Sometimes people want to know if this is only for clergy or if it is something evangelicals could do? The answer is that the retreat is FOR EVERYONE.
If you’d like to know a bit more or want to book a place on the retreat then get in touch:
ContactHOLY WEEK and EASTER SERVICES:
All of our services are open to everyone
All livestream services take place on the parish FaceBook page @StWerburghSpondon
Morning and evening prayer take place via Zoom.
PALM SUNDAY 5th April
10am. LIVESTREAM PARISH MASS
4.30pm. Start of Retreat in Daily Life. (this is a closed service for retreat participants only)
Monday April 6th HOLY MONDAY
10am Morning Prayer
4.30 pm. Evening Prayer
7pm. Livestream Mass with sermon
Tuesday April 7th HOLY TUESDAY
10am Morning Prayer
4.30 pm. Evening Prayer
7pm. Livestream Mass with sermon
Wednesday April 8th SPY WEDNESDAY
10am Morning Prayer
4.30 pm. Evening Prayer
7pm. Livestream Mass with sermon
Thursday April 9th MAUNDY THURSDAY
10am Morning Prayer
4.30 pm. Evening Prayer
7.30pm. LIVESTREAM MASS OF THE LAST SUPPER
Friday April 10th GOOD FRIDAY
9.30am Morning Prayer
10.30pm. Livestream kids’ worship
2pm. LIVESTREAM LITURGY OF THE CROSS
Saturday April 11th HOLY SATURDAY
10am reading of the Office of Readings for Holy Saturday via Zoom
4.30. Closing service of Holy Week Retreat. (this is a closed service for retreat participants only)
8.30pm. LIVESTREAM EASTER VIGIL
EASTER DAY
10am LIVESTREAM PARISH MASS
