Hosanna to the Son of David

Dear All Saints and St Marys

“Hosanna” is the cry from the crowds as Jesus enters Jerusalem this Palm Sunday. It means “Please, Save Us”. It is a cry of adoration and praise but it is also something more than that. It is a beseeching, an earnest request, a heartfelt plea. The people of Jerusalem want delivering from their Roman oppressors, just as Moses delivered the Israelites from Egypt.

Days later desolation, anger and fear have set in and the cry from the crowds turns to “Crucify”. The King that they had hoped would save them had failed to deliver. And so we are invited this week in different ways across both All Saints and St Marys to enter again into God’s salvation story. It is one that saves and delivers but not in the way that anyone might expect. Come, draw near, look, watch, pray, weep and live the story of love, courage and hope.

This Palm Sunday the following Services

10:00am	Palm Sunday Procession and Sung Holy Communion	St Marys
10:30am	Palm Sunday Procession, Communion with Band & Junior Church	All Saints
7:00pm	Generations film and pizza	The Vicarage

THE WEEK AHEAD

Tues 4th April	7:30pm	Compline and Holy Habits Reflection	All Saints
Weds 5th April	9:00am	Celtic Morning Prayer	All Saints
	7:30pm	Compline and Holy Habits Reflection	St Mary's
Thurs 6th April	6:30pm	Maundy Thursday Agape	All Saints
	7:30pm	Maundy Thursday Holy Communion and Watch	St Marys
Good Friday (7th April)	10:00am	Children's Good Friday Activities with Egg Hunt	All Saints
	1:30pm	Sung Liturgy of Good Friday	St Mary's
	2:00pm	Last Hour at the Cross	All Saints
Sat 8th April	10:00am	Prepare Church for Easter	St Marys
	12:00noon	Saturday Lunches	St Marys
	7:30pm	Easter Eve Vigil	St Mary's
Easter Day Sun 9th April	8:00am	Holy Communion	All Saints
	10:00am	All Age Communion	St Mary's
	10:30am	All Age Communion	All Saints
	6:30pm	Choral Easter Festival Evensong	St Mary's

Please find below the weekly sheets.

May God be at your side, with you and watching and waiting this Holy Week.

Blessings

Revd Lizzie

Revd Lizzie Kesteven

Vicar of All Saints Church and St Marys Church, Fishponds

Interim Co Area Dean of Bristol City Deanery

Advisor for Spirituality for Bristol Diocese

0117 9650856

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2nd April 2023 Email Notice Sheet .pdf

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St. Marys - 2nd April 2023.pdf

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