Palm Sunday Holy Week and Easter Day

Here is a full listing of services and essential times:

Palm Sunday

9 am Holy Communion in church

10 am Act of Witness in Ripon Market Square

10.30 am All Together Worship in church

6.30 pm Restored in The Arches

Maundy Thursday

11.30 pm Holy Communion in Room 3, The Arches

6 pm ish Fellowship meals around Ripon

7.30 pm Holy Communion in church

Good Friday

10 am Refreshments in church

10.30 am Family Friendly Good Friday service in church

12 noon Act of Witness in Ripon Market Square

5 pm Good Friday Reflection over ZOOM for anyone (family’s welcome)

Easter Day

9 am Holy Communion in church

10.30 am All Together Holy Communion in church

Maundy Thursday Fellowship Meal

As Chris mentioned last week, we hope folk will be able to meet in groups in different homes for the first part of the Maundy Thursday service sharing a very simple meal & liturgy, then coming together at Holy Trinity for the Communion part of the service. If you have joined with us in the past, you will be aware of the celebratory atmosphere of meeting over food before coming to the service together and then at the end of the night going out into the dark night in silence; in a small way experiencing some of the feelings from the Last Supper. The service itself will start at 7:30 pm so people who are arranging meals need to allow time to get to church for 7.30 pm

The instructions for the meal and a copy of the liturgy is available here: Meal Instructions Meal Liturgy

Paper copies will be available on Sunday to collect.

Good Friday Reflection

This year Michelle is arranging something different for people to gather over ZOOM late afternoon on Good Friday. To get the ZOOM link sign-up here: Good Friday Reflection

Michelle is preparing a pack of resources that you might like to use if you plan to come to this. The packs will be available this Sunday in church.

In Tribute to Madeline Collard

Please follow the link to add your memories to the tribute page for Madeline. Tribute to Madeline

Note the service of thanksgiving for Madeline will be on 17 April at 2 pm at Holy Trinity Church.

Mission Partners

Our new prayer focus for this week is Artizan International.

This link takes you to Artizan International’s web page where you can find out everything they are doing at the moment. Artizan Web Page Please pray especially for:

The Social Enterprise work in Ecuador and Peru

The Peru Café Project

The Artizan Café in Harrogate

Don’t Forget

Please keep looking at our Mission Partner Pages for the latest news from all our Mission Partners: Mission Partners

Below, we have very recent posts from some of our Mission Partners:

CPAS The latest CPAS Today is available here: CPAS Today

Churches Together AGM

This is an advance notice of the Ripon Churches Together AGM which will be held at Holy Trinity on Tuesday 18 April at 7 pm. Our guest speaker will be Nicola David who will be letting us know about the latest developments with Ripon City of Sanctuary.

Sleep Out

The YMCA are holding their first Sleep Easy fundraiser since the COVID pandemic.

Helen and Phil are joining others on April 21st sleeping out for the night. 

Sponsorship for this will be greatly appreciated or maybe others would like to join us. The Just Giving link is Ripon YMCA Sleep Easy 2023

It’s Coming into Festival Season

There is a small but growing Christian festival fairly local to Ripon in July called Cedarwood Festival

But before this you can experience what the worship will be like by attending a worship evening run by Cedarwood Festival at Ripon Cathedral on 28th April at 7pm. Details here: Cedarwood Tour

Other Events and Activities at Holy Trinity

To find out a full listing of what is happening please scroll down the list below to see all our activities and services.

Other News

News from the Diocese of Leeds: Diocesan e-news

Ripon Cathedral latest news Ripon Cathedral

A Rocha E – News for April A Rocha

Spring Fair The Spring Fair at Ripon Cathedral is on Saturday 15 April. Spring Fair

Christian Aid Quiz 21 April – You can book your ticket now, details here: Christian Aid Quiz