Sunday 18th February
Eucharist Lent I @10:00
followed by coffee in the Anglican Centre
Maundy Thursday – Good Friday – your thoughts requested
Holy Week is a journey – it starts in triumph on Palm Sunday with the waiving of palms as Jesus enters Jerusalem. It moves through the Last Supper, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Trail, the Cross, the death of Jesus and ends with his glorious resurrection on Easter Day.
We are currently planning our Holy Week Schedule at St. Catherine’s and would like your thoughts on what to offer on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. How to capture this journey, the sorrow and despair – without which the Easter Joy has no contrast.
We don’t have access to church so will be meeting in the Anglican Centre.
Would you wish to attend something on one or both days? What time would suit you?
Would you wish to reflect on the passion and pray together – or discuss?
Would you want to take Communion? Would you want to wash each other’s feet?
Send your thoughts to holyweek@stcatherines-stuttgart.de
World Day of Prayer, Friday 1st March 2024 at 19:00 (7.00 p.m.)
For the 2024 World Day of Prayer, Christians from Palestine prepared the liturgy for the WGT before the October 7, 2023 attack.
After the Hamas attack and the resulting warlike conflicts, the liturgy and the draft plaque were supplemented, rewritten, and partly replaced. The Liturgy is based on verses from Ephesians (Chapter 4, 1-7): full of courage, humility, kindness, and patience, and a hope that unity can succeed in mutual respect, respect, and love – held by the Bond of peace.
Christians from Palestine talk about their lives and we pray with them that what is humanly possible will be done across all borders for a just peace. May our prayers in this challenging, and depressing time help ensure that understanding, reconciliation, and peace have a chance, in Israel and Palestine, in the Middle East, Ukraine, and also here in Germany.
All: women, men, and children are invited to the service on Friday 1st March 2024 at 19:00 (7:00 p.m)
- Women’s Group – Thursday 22nd February @10:00 – speak to Alison or e-mail women@stcatherines-stuttgart.de for more details.
- World Day of Prayer – Friday 1st March @19:00
- Saturday 16th March – Young people’s activity followed by Eucharist @17:00
- Maundy Thursday – Thursday, 28th March
- Good Friday – Friday, 29th March
- Easter Vigil – Saturday 30th March @21:00 Uhr – Gottesdienst in der Leonhardskirche, danach Osterfeuer vor der Katharinenkirche und dann gemeinsames Abendmahl in der Katharinenkirche
- Easter Day – Sunday 31st March @10:00
- Kirchenputzende – Saturday 20th April – 10:00-14:00 – help the Old Catholics on their church cleaning day
- Annual Chaplaincy Meeting (ACM) – Sunday 21st April @12:00
- Altkatholische Gemeindefest – Saturday 4th May – 15:00 onwards
- Ascension Day Hike for youngsters – Thursday 9th May
- Service of Lessons & Carols – Saturday 7th December @17:00 – Leonhardskirche
Prayers
- We pray for those preparing for baptism
- We pray for our young people
- We pray for places and people in conflict and those who seek to bring peace.
