Holy Week: Holy Saturday

15 Sat Apr 2017

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Holy Week, Lent, St. Margaret of Antioch St. Margaret South Elmham

The church of St. Margaret of Antioch, St. Margaret South Elmham

Richard and I attended the Easter Ceremonies service this evening at the church of St. Margaret of Antioch in the village of St. Margaret South Elmham.

1. Awake, awake: fling off the night! 2. Awake and rise, like men renewed,
For God has sent his glorious light; men with the Spirit’s power endued.
and we who live in Christ’s new day The light of life in us must glow,
must works of darkness put away. and fruits of truth and goodness show.

3. Let in the light; all sin expose 4. Awake, and rise up from the dead,
to Christ, whose life no darkness knows. and Christ his light on you will shed.
Before his cross for guidance kneel; Its power will wrong desires destroy,
his light will judge and, judging, heal. and your whole nature fill with joy.

5. Then sing for joy, and use each day;
give thanks for everything alway.
Lift up your hearts; with one accord
praise God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

J R Peacey

The church of St. Margaret of Antioch

Holy Week: Good Friday

15 Sat Apr 2017

Posted by Clare Pooley in Rural Diary

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Holy Week, Lent, St. James church St. James South Elmham, St. Lawrence church Ilketshall St. Lawrence, St. Michael's church St. Michael South Elmham

St. James’ church, St. James South Elmham

Richard and I attended the Stations of the Cross service at 10 o’clock this morning at St. James’ church in the village of St. James South Elmham.

“He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity;
and as one from whom others hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him of no account”

Isaiah 53 v 3

St. James’ church

St. Michael and All Angels’ church, St. Michael South Elmham

I attended a Devotional Hour service at midday today at St. Michael and All Angels’ church in the village of St. Michael South Elmham.

“Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases;
yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

Isaiah 53 vv 4-6

St. Michael and All Angels’ church

St. Lawrence’ church, Ilketshall Saint Lawrence

Richard and I attended the Evening Prayer service at 2 o’clock this afternoon at St. Lawrence church in the village of Ilketshall St. Lawrence.

“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that is before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people.
They made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich,
although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.”

Isaiah 53 vv 7-9