Category Archives: Easter

Holy week and Easter 2025

Palm Sunday, 13 April 2025 is the beginning of Holy Week. This is the central focus of the Church’s liturgical year. In particular we celebrate the Sacred Triduum (= three days), marked by the three liturgies in bold italics below. Thursday evening, Friday afternoon and Saturday evening bring us from the Upper Room through the journey to Calvary and on to the empty Tomb.  We hope that these will be a priority for all of us in the 3 Churches community, and look forward to seeing you.

Palm Sunday 13 April –  all weekend masses at the usual times in our 3 Churches with the blessing of Palms and a procession at the start.

For 9.30am Mass at Christ the King and 10.30am Mass at St Brigid’s please gather in the hall for the blessing and procession.  

Stations of the Cross 3.30pm at Christ the King.

 

Monday 14 April, Tuesday 15 April, Wednesday 16 April –  Parish masses at the usual times. 

Chrism Mass  This year takes place at 11.30am on Tuesday 15 April at St Joseph’s Co-Cathedral in Swansea. Address:  Convent Street SA1 2BX. There will be a livestream via www.meneviacathedral.org

 

Maundy Thursday 17 April 

8 pm – 3 Churches Mass of the Lord’s Supper at St Brigid’s followed by watching in the church until 10.30 pm

 

Good Friday  18 April 

10am – Office of Readings and Morning Prayer at Christ the King

3pm – The Celebration of the Passion of the Lord at St Paul’s and at Christ the King (with children’s liturgy at Christ the King)

 

Holy Saturday  19 April

10am – Office of Readings and Morning Prayer at Christ the King

8.30pm –  3 Churches Easter Vigil and First Mass of Easter at Christ the King when we will welcome Will Williams in baptism and receive into the church Dafydd Davies, Tom Hobbs and Melody Emmerson.  Please remember them in your prayers as they prepare to begin their lives as Catholic Christians.  Refreshments in the Parish Centre after the Vigil to welcome the new members of our community. 

 

Easter Sunday    20 April

Masses in all 3 churches at the usual times.  

9.30am mass at Christ the King will be a Family Mass

 

Fr Matthew

The week of Holiness

Next week Palm Sunday (24 March 2024) sees the beginning of Holy Week, the very heart of the Church’s year. We come together to remember, celebrate and share the very central events of our faith as we follow Jesus through the last week of his life on Earth.  Please make a very special effort to be present and help us all celebrate this Week of Holiness. This is how you can take part:

Palm Sunday – 24 March 2024
Parish Mass, 9.30am at Christ the King.
Parish Mass, 10.30am at St Brigid’s starting with a procession from the hall.
Both with palms blessed and distributed.
Stations of the Cross, 4pm at Christ the King.

Monday 25 March 2024
Parish Mass, 9.30am at St Brigid’s with morning prayer at 9.10am.
Passover Meal, 7pm at St Brigid’s Hall.
Come and experience the ancient roots of the Mass.

Tuesday 26 March 2024
Parish Mass, 9.30am at Christ the King with morning prayer at 9.10am.
Chrism Mass, 11.30am at the Cathedral. Join people and priests from all over the diocese as the sacramental oils for the year are blessed and priests’ promises renewed.

Wednesday 27 March 2024
Parish Mass, 9.30am at St Paul’s.

Thursday 28 March 2024
3 Churches Maundy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 8pm at Christ the King.
Watching at the Altar of Repose in the parish centre until midnight.

Good Friday – 29 March 2024
Morning Prayer, 10am at Christ the King.
Commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord, 3pm at Christ the King (with children’s liturgy) and St Paul’s.

Holy Saturday – 30 March 2024
Holy Saturday, 10am Morning Prayer at Christ the King.
3 Churches Easter Vigil and First Mass of Easter, 8.30pm St Brigid’s.
No Saturday evening mass at Christ the King.

Easter Sunday – 31 March 2024
Easter Sunday Masses at usual times.

Note clocks go forward one hour for summer time on 31 March.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! Against the background of pandemic and Ukraine among other things we may find it hard to greet one another with these words. But we must dig down into the roots of our faith that we celebrate on this Feast of the Resurrection. Deep down below the painful and the appalling, to reach the Good News planted in the depths of our human experience by the Jesus who burst out of the tomb on this day. May he shine his Easter light in all our lives so brightly that it shines out through our faces, our hearts, and our lives into our world. So… yes… Happy Easter!

Fr Matthew

Happy Easter

Dear friends and parishioners,

A very joyful and peace-filled Easter to you all! We have the added joy of welcoming the parish communities back to Mass – according to current restrictions of course! It is springtime, a season of new beginnings, new life.

Easter cross

May the season, the reopening, and most of all, the Risen Christ bring you and your loved ones a new spring in your step, a glint in your eyes, and a joy in your faith.

Happy Easter – and welcome back!

Fr Matthew