• Change your life

  26/03/2013

  [This post is reposted from a previous year. No-one who has ever kept the triduum with me has ever told me that what I promised fell short of their experience].

  Every year I make a promise to people. I say that if they keep the triduum with me at St Mary’s then it will change their life and change their faith.

  The Triduum is the three days from Maundy Thursday to Easter Day. Although the various services take place over several days, it is really one big feast, which is what makes it so extraordinary when you keep it in one place and experience the whole thing. It really is life changing stuff.

  I blogged a bit about it [one] year, and it might be worth pointing people to those blog posts:

  Maundy Thursday
  Veneration of the Cross
  Three Hour Devotions
  Good Friday Evening
  Holy Saturday – all hands on deck!
  The Vigil

  I’d say you’d kept the Triduum with me if you come to the Maundy Thursday evening service, two of the three services on Good Friday (try for the three hours if you can), the clean and polish on Saturday and the early fire Vigil and the main Festival Mass on Sunday.

  It really is life-changing if you do it all and there are people around who will testify to just that.

  Holy Week

Previous Posts

• Sermon – 19 June 2005

  19/06/2005

  The gospel reading that we have just had represents a collection of proverbs and remembered sayings of Jesus Christ. You can almost imagine people sitting round and each tossing in a memory of what Jesus had once said which made them think. As such, it is not a terribly easy thing to preach on and…

• New Archbishop of York

  17/06/2005

  A cautious welcome to the appointment of the new Archbishop of York, the Rt Rev John Sentamu. He became the Area Bishop in East London where I worked for a while. Margeret, to whom Bishop John is married, was the Selection Secretary on the Selection Conference which I attended when applying to have my vocation…

• Sign seen in the road

  15/06/2005

  WORK ON CAT’S EYES

• Recovery

  13/06/2005

  I am almost recovered from attending the grumpiest synod that I remember. Things were mostly calm in the hall itself, but arguments were erupting all around. Little fires that would not go out all over the place. This is a result of unresolved conflict coming to the surface.