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Deus Scientiarum Dominus
Holy Week and Easter 2021
Pusey House Oxford
puseyhouse.org.uk
Holy Week and Easter Services
Date and Time Services
Palm Sunday High Mass
March 28th, 11.00AM Sermon Title: Something old, something new...
Holy Monday Low Mass
March 29th, 6.00PM
Holy Tuesday Low Mass
March 30th, 6.00PM
Holy Wednesday Low Mass
March 31st, 6.00PM
Maundy Thursday High Mass for the Lord’s Supper with Vigil
April 1st, 7.30PM Sermon Title: A Song of snogs?
Good Friday Solemn Liturgy for the Passion and Death of the
April 2nd, 12.00PM Lord
Sermon Title: The visible invisible
The Great Easter Vigil First Mass of Easter
April 3rd, 10.30PM Sermon Title: Creation fulfilled
Our Preacher for Holy Week and Easter is
The Rev’d Ernest Lennon
Chaplain of St Edward’s School, OxfordPrayers for Holy Week
Maundy Thursday
Lord Jesus Christ, who when thou wast able to institue thy Holy Sacrament at the Last Supper, didst
wash the feet of the Apostles, and teach us by thy example the grace of humility: cleanse us, we be-
seech thee, from all stain of sin, that we may be worthy partakers of thy holy mysteries: who livest and
reignest with the
Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.
The Royal Maundy
Good Friday
O Lord Jesus Christ, take us to thyself, draw us with cords to the foot of thy cross; for we have not
strength to come, and we know not the way. Thou art mighty to save, and none can separate us from
thy love: bring us home to thyself; for we are gone astray. We have wandered; do thou seek us. Under
the shadow of thy cross let us live all the rest of our lives, and there we shall be safe. Amen.
Archbishop Fredrick Temple
Holy Saturday
O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who at this evening hour didst rest in the sepulchre and
didst thereby sanctify the grave to be a bed of hope to thy people: make us so to abound in sorrow for
our sins, which were the cause of thy passion, that when our bodies lie in the dust, our souls may live
with thee; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end.
Amen.
Office of Compline
Easter Day
O God of peace, who didst raise again from the death the great Shepherd of the sheep with the blood
of the eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus: make us perfect in every good thing to do thy will, work-
ing in us that which is well-pleasing in thy sight through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and
ever. Amen.
After Hebrews 13
Easter Octave (Thomas Sunday)
Lord Jesus, I beseech thee by thy glorious resurrection, raise me up from the sepulchre of my sins and
vices, and daily give me a part in thy resurrection by grace, that I may be a partner also in thy resur-
reciton glory. Amen.
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The Meaning of Holy Week
Love would never leave us alone. Everything in Holy Week speaks of love. The liturgies,
which run from Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday are often long, for example, because love
endures; the liturgies are sensual, because love depends on bodily intimacies (touch, smell,
sight, sound); the
liturgies are sorrowful, because every day love is violated; the services are mysteriously joyful,
because no violation of love exhausts love’s mercy. Indeed, the Holy Week journey that
recounts day by day the story of Christ’s death and so seems nothing if not tragic is, properly
understood, from beginning to end the story of a wedding—everything speaks of love. This, at least,
is the conviction of one old tradition that places the image of Christ the Bridegroom at the very
beginning of the most sacred week of the Christian year. Of the many titles given to God in
the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (Saviour, Lord, Father), Bridegroom is arguably the most
common and significant. Holy Week is a journey into the mystery of a divine desire to be ‘wed’
to our humanity not simply in its beauty and goodness, but in its deepest and most profound
darkness and forsakenness. In all of the liturgies and sermons, in the music and the silence, one
truth will be proclaimed over and over again: that, though the world may betray love, ‘Love,’ as
Bob Marley sings, ‘would never leave us alone.’
So then, what do we discover in Holy Week? Many things. The week is an antidote to the
culture of distraction that numbs us to both our own and others’ loveliness and fragility; it is an
alternative to the culture of consumption that reduces us to our most superficial appetites; it
is the opportunity to discover that we are all complicit in the world’s pain --and others are
complicit in ours --and yet to do so from the perspective of forgiveness; it reminds us that the
human use of
power almost always coerces from above, but the divine use of love serves from below. But more
than all of this, Holy Week is about the discovery that ‘Love would never leave us alone.’ Though
the world may turn its back on Love, Love himself is always turning towards us. In Holy Week,
we dare to
believe that there is a Bridegroom -- one who wishes to take upon himself all that is ours,
including the betrayals and sadnesses of our lives, in order to give us all that is his, including
his life and love
Extracts from a Meditation by Fr Gary Thorne
THE CHAPTER OF PUSEY HOUSE
Dr Jonathan Price The Rev’d Dr George Westhaver The Rev’d Mark Stafford
John & Daria Barry Principal Chaplain
Lay Academic Fellow
Jessica Woodward
Libarian
Sacristan: Richard John Keeble Master of the Music: David Bannister ARCO
Steward: Karen Westhaver Organist: Laurence John ARCO
Chapel Interns:
Alex Fels, James Mosher, Jack Nicholson
pusey.office@stx.ox.ac.uk Oxford, OX1 3LZ
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