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Meet Hodge - Chief Mouser at Southwark Cathedral 🐈‍⬛

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Lunchtime Organ Recital🎵
If you’re in the area, why not pop into the Cathedral on your lunch break today to enjoy some music.
Today’s recital is given by Carolyn Craig from Westminster Abbey.
🕐 1.20pm

Join us in person or online tomorrow for our Choral Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter.
Tomorrow's preacher is Canon Wendy Robins, Chancellor. The service is sung by The Willan Singers.
📅 Sunday 7 April, 11am
📽️ bit.ly/43W9HEj

🎨Easter Egg Painting Workshop - two weeks today!
📆 Saturday 20 April, from 11am

Egg painting is an old tradition, especially in the Eastern Europe where it has developed into a complex and beautiful art. Join us to try it our for yourself.

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As we continue through this season of Eastertide, we would like to share this video of Mark Oakley's Holy Week and Easter Sunday sermons.

We are led through Jesus' final days with the help of poems from W H Auden, Louis MacNeice and more.

📽 youtu.be/0WdGpnGtPMU

Alleluia, Christ is Risen! Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter from all of us at Southwark Cathedral.

📷 Lara Arnott

Today is Maundy Thursday, the final Thursday before Easter, when we recall the Last Supper that Jesus shared with his disciples before his arrest and trial.
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All are welcome to join us at services throughout the day.
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📸 Eve Milner

Our journey through Holy Week continues this evening as Mark Oakley reflects on Dennis O'Driscoll's Missing God.

Previous addresses are available to watch on our YouTube channel now.

📽bit.ly/3vuEoVi

📸 Mickey Lee

🙋What role can faith groups play in societal transformation?

Join Reverend Steve Chalke & The Very Reverend Mark Oakley, Dean of Southwark Cathedral as they explore how faith groups can empower communities.

Thurs April 18th 2024, 7-8.30pm – Tickets here: bit.ly/3Vaveru

'As Holy Week approaches, I am aware that Christ often addresses the questions that the human heart should be engaged with rather than the ones that we think are relevant, but which are so often just self-serving'

Read this week's Diary by Mark Oakley 👇
churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/…

🎼Good Friday Concert
🕡6.30pm

As we enter Holy Week, we invite you to join the Girls and Lay Clerks of the Cathedral Choir for a special Good Friday Concert. The programme features Duruflé’s powerful and hauntingly beautiful Requiem.

🎟bit.ly/3UPUpiW

Join us for a special Holy Week Organ Meditation led by our Sub-Organist Simon Hogan and the Canon Precentor.
🎶 includes J.S. Bach, Dupré & Ethel Smyth
🗣️ ‘The dream of the Rood’.

📆 Monday 25 March, 1.20pm

This weekend we enter Holy Week, the last week of Lent. Mark Oakley will lead us through Holy Week with a series of sermons exploring poems that warn us about who or what we might be turning into.

All are welcome to join us in person or online.
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Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week, when we remember Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem.
At the 11am Choral Eucharist we will remember this with a procession from Cathedral Square while carrying crosses made of palm leaves.

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This promises to be a fantastic evening. There are still some tickets available via our Eventbrite page.
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Join us tomorrow for a special service celebrating women's ministry and the 30th Anniversary of the Ordination of Women Priests in Southwark Diocese.

📅 Saturday 23 March, 11am
🗣️ The Ven Moira Astin, Arcdeacon of Reigate

To mark the start of Holy Week, I'll be playing an organ meditation Southwark Cathedral on Monday 25th, 1.20pm. Music will be interspersed with sections of the poem The Dream of the Rood, read by Canon Precentor Kathryn Fleming. I, for one, am hugely excited about this. Free entry!

🎼Good Friday Concert
🕡6.30pm

As we approach Holy Week and Easter, we invite you to join the Girls and Lay Clerks of the Cathedral Choir for a special Good Friday Concert. The programme features Duruflé’s powerful and hauntingly beautiful Requiem.

🎟bit.ly/3UPUpiW

It was a pleasure to welcome the Rev’d Fadi Diab, Rector of St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Ramallah and St Peter, Birzeit as our preacher at the 9am and 11am Eucharists yesterday (17 March).

The full sermon and conversation can be viewed on YouTube.
📽️ youtu.be/9zZNPBFNlCI

Join us tomorrow for the next of our lunchtime organ recitals. This week we welcome Zsombor Tóth-Vajna from the Royal College of Music.
Admission free, donations welcome.
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