Author: Leigh Hatts

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Easter Monday: Eggs & hare pie scrambling

Easter is just starting. Even the Book Common Prayer has a collect and readings for Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday. The weather is good for egg rolling in Preston’s Avenham Park which has been an Easter custom there since 1867. Meanwhile at Hallaton in Leicestershire the annual Easter Hare Pie scrambling and bottle kicking on […]

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In Limbo on Holy Saturday

If we are  following the real time of Holy Week today Saturday  is a limbo with Christ dead whilst  the apostles wonder what will happen next. But today we know that come dusk there will be the first flickers from Easter fires outside churches and in public areas in Finland and villages in Cyprus. So […]

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Good Friday: Hot cross buns

On Good Friday 1783 Dr Johnson described his breakfast as “tea without milk, and…a hot cross bun to prevent faintness”.  Today is a day of fasting and abstinence so a hot cross bun, invented by St Albans Abbey in 1361, should keep one going until after church this afternoon. The distribution of hot cross buns […]

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Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday has several themes including feet washing, institution of the Eucharist, watching with Christ and arrest. At the distribution of the Royal Maundy, this morning at Windsor, the Queen will be accompanied by clergy and children wearing towels. This is a reminder that once the monarch not only gave out money but washed feet […]

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Spy Wednesday: Tenebrae

Wednesday of Holy Week is Spy Wednesday and so-called because Judas betrays Jesus. Judas is paid by enemies for his information that Jesus will be almost alone on Thursday. This is such a poignant day that it has become customary for many churches to hold this evening the ancient service known as Tenebrae. Tenebrae means […]

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Holy Week in real time

Tomorrow we begin Holy Week when we can live Christ’s last days on earth in real time. So where is Jesus tonight? He and his close followers are arriving at Bethany which is close Jerusalem. They are welcomed by Martha and Mary. Also there is their brother Lazarus who was recently brought back to life […]

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Mothering Sunday

This weekend was going to be significant: UK leaving the EU, change clocks, abolition of three south coast councils* and Mothering Sunday. The first has been postponed but Mothering Sunday cannot as it is the mid Lent Sunday and Easter must start on the night of 20 April whatever else happens One Mothering Sunday tradition […]

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CAFOD FAMILY FAST DAY

This Friday 15 March is Family Fast Day when CAFOD suggests that we forgo our main meal and donate the normal cost to the poor via the charity. CAFOD, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, works alongside Christian Aid to build a world without hunger and war by putting faith into action. Below is soup […]

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FOLLOW LENT

Keeping Lent & Easter is a paperback guide to following the forty days of Lent and the forty days of Easter. Buy your copy at Church House Bookshop, Southwark Cathedral shop or here.

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BREXIT STOPS PANCAKES

It’s Shrove Tuesday this Tuesday 5 March but there will be no Parliamentary pancake race. Fear of Brexit demonstrations  outside the Palace of Westminster is being given as the reason. However Winchester Cathedral is inaugurating an annual pancake race at noon. There are 20 teams with clergy and city councillors taking part. The relays in […]

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