On Wednesday Evening our first Holy Week Service was the Stations of the Cross followed by the evening office of Compline. The service was lead by Father Stephen, as we progressed around the church visiting the illustrations of each station and sharing a short meditation and prayer at each station. We sang a verse of a hymn between each station. This was followed by the evening office of Compline, also a meditative service, and we left the church thinking about the Passion of our Lord.

On Thursday evening we had the Eucharist of the last supper and the Gethsemane watch. The service marks the end of Lent and the Liturgical colour was white and gold, we sang the Gloria for the first time for 6 weeks, and bells were rung in celebration. Father Stephen explained that this was a ray of light between the contemplation of Lent and the darkness of the events of Good Friday, prefiguring the joy of the Resurrection on Sunday. After the Communion the mood changed, the Choir sang the Ave Verum Corpus in the setting by Byrd, and the service finished with the chanting of  Psalm 22 as the altar was striped bare and the reserved sacrament removed. The congregation either joined the Gethsemane watch in the side Chapel in the North Transept, or left the Church in silence.