St Peter's Parish News
Thursday 1 January 1970
Easter 2026 – thank you
We have just celebrated our 804th Easter at St Peter’s, and what a week it has been, when we all travelled further on our faith journey, through the drama of Holy Week and the joy of Easter.
Profound thanks are due to everyone who has worked behind the scenes to organise everything this year. We give thanks for the guidance of Fr Stuart and the clergy team, for our bellringers, servers, readers, sacristy and chalice assistants and all who have helped in any way at services to provide a warm welcome to worshippers and to make everything run smoothly. Our choir were on top form as they sang five services (including bright-tailed and bushey-eyed at the 6am Easter Vigil) and an exquisite concert performance of Stainer’s Crucifixion. Our 9:30am Easter Parish Mass concluded with our choir (plus guests) singing the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah. We thank all who have worked so hard to elevate our worship and draw us deeper into faith.
On Holy Saturday we had an army of volunteers who turned up armed with mops and brooms to give the church a good pre-Easter clean. One great big thank you is due to all of those that turned up to make the church sparkle for Easter. It is wonderful when the worshipping community come together to make it all happen – so, if you did something, however small, thank you. If anyone now feels inspired to join one of the 5 Cleaning Teams, please have a word with Lea Willis or Judy Clegg!
Easter does not end on Easter Day – there are of course 40 days of Eastertide, when the Resurrection is uppermost in our minds at worship. This coming Sunday – the Second Sunday of Easter – is “Low Sunday”, and our exhausted choir traditionally take a Sunday off to recover after all the musical exertions over Holy Week and Easter. Our Paschal joy is undimmed, so please sing loudly and lustily in the hymns this Sunday!
“Bless, O Lord, all thy servants who minister in thy temple…”
