Holy Week 2023 | All Saints Margaret Street

Holy Week 2023

Please note that it is our custom during Holy Week to have only one celebration of the Mass each day on Holy Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, at 6.30 pm with a homily.

All the liturgies of Holy Week will be live-streamed via our YouTube Channel here

Palm Sunday 2nd April 2023
11.00 am High Mass with sermon by the Bishop of Fulham.
N.B. Meet at 11.00 am in Oxford Market for the procession of palms.
Music: Pueri Hebraeorum, anon attrib. Palestrina; Mass in B-flat, Rachmaninov; God so loved the world, Stainer.
5.15 pm Mass
6.00 pm Evensong and Benediction
Music: Evensong and Benediction canticles, Rachmaninov; Christus factus est, Bruckner.

Holy Monday 3rd April 2023
5.30 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Low Mass with homily: the Bishop of Fulham

Holy Tuesday 4th April 2023
11.00 am Bishop of Fulham’s Chrism Mass at St Andrew’s, Holborn.
5.30 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Low Mass with homily: Fr Peter

Holy Wednesday 5th April 2023
5.30 pm Confessions
6.30 pm Low Mass with homily: the Bishop of Fulham
7.30 pm Tenebrae

Maundy Thursday 6th April 2023
6.30 pm High Mass with sermon by the Bishop of Fulham, followed by watch at altar of repose until midnight
Music: Missa Brevis, Buxtehude (Kyrie and, Gloria); Missa XVIII, Deus Genitor Alme (Sanctus, Agnus Dei); Ubi caritas, Duruflé; O sacrum convivium, Tallis; Ave verum, Byrd.

Good Friday 7th April 2023
3.00 pm Solemn Liturgy with sermon by the Bishop of Fulham
Music: Crux Fidelis & Reproaches, Palestrina; Ecce quomodo moritur justus, Handl.
7.30 pm Stations of the Cross (Maria Desolata)

Holy Saturday 8th April 2023
9.00 pm Easter Vigil with baptisms, confirmations and sermon by the Bishop of Fulham
Music: Messe Solenelle, Vierne.

Easter Day 9th April 2023
11.00 am High Mass with sermon by the Bishop of Fulham
Music: Krönungsmesse K317, Mozart; Easter Hymn, Mascagni.
5.15 pm Mass
6.00 pm Evensong, Te Deum, and Benediction
Music: Stanford in C; Blessed be the God and Father, Wesley; Te Deum, Sumsion in G.