COMING UP IN MALLOW UNION

HOLY WEEK & EASTER

There will be a full programme of worship from Palm Sunday to Easter Day. In addition to services at the usual times on Palm Sunday 13th April, there will be Night Prayer with a devotional address on Monday 14th April at 8.00pm in St James’s Church, Mallow; and on Tuesday 15th April at 8.00pm in St Mary’s Doneraile. On Wednesday 16th April at 11.00am, there will be a celebration of the Eucharist with address in St James’s Church, Mallow. On Maundy Thursday (17th April) at 8.00pm there will be a celebration of the Eucharist with the Washing of Feet and Stripping of the Sanctuary in St Mary’s Church, Castletownroche. On Good Friday (18th April) at 8.00pm the Liturgy of Good Friday, with dramatic reading of the Passion according to St John, will take place in St James’s Church, Mallow. On Holy Saturday (19th) at 8.00pm, the Easter Liturgy, with lighting of the new fire, vigil of readings, renewal of baptismal vows and first Eucharist of Easter will take place in St Mary’s Church, Castletownroche. On Easter Day (20th April) there will be festal celebrations of the Eucharist at 10.00am in St Mary’s, Doneraile; and at 11.45am in St James’s Church, Mallow. This year, the Holy Week addresses will focus on the ‘Personalities inthe Passion’ exploring different individuals who appear in the Gospel accounts of the last week of Jesus’s life and who witness to his resurrection.