Letus Worship Together at Easter

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34129, 15 April 1976, Page 17

Letus Worship Together at Easter

The traditional Easter services will be held in most Christchurch churches this year, and many will be combined with music and drama. Several churches will hold joint services. Others have invited guest preachers. The Salvation Army's Christchurch Theatre Group will present the musical, "Spirit,” at the Repertory Theatre from Easter Saturday until April 24. The theme will be the Easter 'acknowledgement of the Resurrection. On Good Friday, in the Salvation Army Citadel, Victoria Square, there will be services at 10.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 7 pm. Special guests at these services will be Colonel B. Davis, from London, and LieutenantColonel and Mrs V/. Simpson, of Wellington. For Easter Sunday, the Salvation Army has arranged a special sunrise meeting in Victoria Park at 7 a.m., to which all Christians are invited. Salvation Army corps around Christchurch will also hold their own meetings.

Tonight at 9 p.m., the Sy-denham-Beckenham Anglican, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Methodist, and Presby-

terian Churches, the Assent-1 blies of God, and Salvation: Army corpes will combine!: for a devotional service in the Beckenham Methodist (Church. ( During the service there] i will be a dramatic re/ ]enactment of the Last Sup-! iper and time in the Garden! j of Gethsemane, followed at (9.30 p.m. by a passion !prayer vigil. During the vigil, groups] : from each church will be 'rostered to “keep watch" for (an hour at a time, until 9.30 !the next morning. At 9.30 a.m., the churches: I will again combine for a( 'Good Friday dramatic re-| membrance of the Cross at i the Beckenham Methodist: ,Church. ; At St Saviour’s Anglican 'Church, Sydenham. there! will be an informal Holy I Communion service with a(. I commemoration of the Last’ ISupper at 7.30 tonight, when! ■those attending will gather; (round the alter. ( On Good Friday, at 8 a.m..; (there will be a quiet de-] ivotional service, and at 2 I p.m. an hour of “Devotion ]i (at the Cross,” taken by the senior hospital chaplain (the I Rev. W D. Harding). This; 'will be partly dramatic, and( 'objects associated with Eas-' Iter, including the crown of I: 'thorns, the cross, and spear

'will be brought forward. > 'There will also be hymns] 'and readings. Op Easter Sunday, Holy! Communion services will be' iat 7 a.m. and at 8 a.m. and. (Evensong at 7 p.m. At 9.30 (a.m. families will join for a 'Holy Communion service I with a talk for children and hymns accompanied by guitar. Today. at St Peter's Roman Catholic Church. (Beckenham, there will be a celebration of the Lord’s: Supper at 7 p.m. followed' 'by “keeping watch” to 11 pm. Tomorrow, a celebra-j i tion of the Lord's Passion is: (planned at 3 p.m. ' On Saturday, an Easter' vigil will be kept at St Peter’s from 7 p.m. and will finish with the “Mass of the Resurrection.” Easter Day] (Masses will be at 7 a.m., |8.30 a.m. and 10 a.m. The Sydenham Assemblies' I of God will have a Holy (Communion service at 11 j [a.m. on Good Friday with a film, “My Son. My Son,” at; 7.30 p.m. on Saturday. Easter Day service will be at 111 a.m. and 6.50 p.m. On Sunday, services in the Beckenham Methodist Church, will be at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., in St David's Presbyterian Church at 10 a.m.. and in the Beckenham Baptist Church and Syden-

1 ham Salvation Army Citadel] at 11 a. m. and 7 p.m. The Papanui Methodist Church, St David's Methodist Church, St Margaret's | Presbyterian Church, and the] Bishopdale Church of Christ' will combine tor a service at 9.30 a.m on Good Friday at St David's. There will be services at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. in the Bishopdale Church of Christ on Sunday. At S< David’s there will , be a service at 10 a.m. on j Sunday. On Easter Monday | at 4.30 p.m. a family tea ; will be held, with dancing, games and a film. The Durham Street I Methodist Church, the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, and St Paul’s Trinity Pacific ] Church will combine for a (service in St Paul’s at 10 a.m. on Good Friday. The! preacher will be the Pev. ! [lvor Bailey. On Sunday at St Paul’s-' Trinity Pacific Church, there i will be an English service at (11 a.m., the preacher being [the Rev. R. S. Roxburgh, a Samoan service at 3 p.m.. a Cook Island service at 4.30 p.m.. and an English service at 7 p.m. The preacher of each of these will be the Rev. K Faletoese. There will be services in the Durham Street Methodist 'Church at 10 a.m. on Sun-

(day and in the Cambridge Terrace Methodist Church and at Aldersgate at 7 p.m Today. Hole Communion (will be celebrate, in Christ- • [church Cathedra! at 9 10, p.m. On Good Friday, a devotional service will be he d from noon to 3 p.m with the Rev. M. Brown, vicar of ■ St Mary’s Anglican Church. Merivalc. The evening service will be at 7.30 p.m. ! On Sunday, services will 1 be at 7 a.m. and 8 a m., the Dean of Christchurch tthe 1 Very Rev. M. Underhill) ■ preaching at 11 a.m. 1 he Anglican Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt Rex. W. A. Pyatt) will preach at the 7 p.m. service. At St Mary's. Merivale. today there will be Holy '■Communion at 11 a.m. anil ,7.30 p.m. On Good Friday there will be a Litany and ante-com-munion service at 8 a.m.. a family service at 10 am. and a three hour devotional ' service from noon to 3 p in., '[conducted by the vicar of Aranui (the Rev. S. 1 d'i wards). On Easter Day. Holy loin munion will be at 7 a.m., 8 a.m and II a in with a fam- , ily Eucharist service at 10 am. During this family service. chocolate fish will be given to children as an an-

yctent svmbol of Christ i Evensong will be at 7 p.m In the Cathedral of th< Blessed Sacrament at I I a.m. today, the Roman (. ath Jolie Br-h.>p of Christchurt lithe Most Rev B. P Xshbv and priests of the diocest will celebrate Mass This evening at 7.30 there will be a "Mass ol tin ord s Supper," followed bv a presentation of "St John* Passion," bv the < him and invited soloists and on hes tta On Good Hidav. at In am the "Solemn Station ot ihe Cross will be at IU a m during which the "Via 'Crusis" bv Liszt will b< presented At 3 pin. their will be the "Liturgv ot th< 1 ord s Passion." At 11 30 p.m. on Saturdav there will be an Easter v igi Billowed bv a midnight Mass. On Sundav there wi be Masses at 730 a.m., M a.m.. 10.30 a m., and 7 p m There will be a traditiona Easter service in the l.ibeia Catholic Church < ambridc Terrace, at II a.m on Good Friday. with th. "Veneiatim. of the Cross." ■ lhe vicar-genet a. ot the church (the Very Rev. .1 I B Pope) will be the cole brant at the 11 am scrviie on Easter Dav when there w ill be a "High Celebration of the Holv 1 uchat st