It is still uncertain when Christians first began to make an annual (as opposed to a weekly) memorial of the death and resurrection of Christ. This Pascha (a word derived indirectly from pesach, Hebrew ‘Passover’) was at first a night-long vigil, followed by the celebration of the Eucharist at cock-crow, and all the great themes of redemption were included within it: incarnation, suffering, death, resurrection, glorification.
Over time, the Pascha developed into the articulated structure of Holy Week and Easter. Through participation in the whole sequence of services, the Christian shares in Christ’s own journey, from the triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to the empty tomb on Easter morning.
Listings of our regular services during Holy Week will be published on the Service Schedule on Sunday 4th March.
Exeter Chamber Choir: J.S. Bach’s St John Passion Saturday 29 March at 7:30pm Exeter Chamber Choir, Orchestra and Soloists present J.S. Bach’s dramatic setting of the Easter Passion according to St. John. From the urgent, restless opening through to the sublime final chorus and transcendent chorale, the musical evocation of this dramatic story brings us […]