Palm Sunday
- High Altar
- Blessing of the Palms
- Sprinkling with Holy Water
- Processing out of the school grounds
- Processing out of the school grounds
- Procession down Quaker's Hall Lane
- Prcoession
- Accolites entering Church
- Fr. Ivan entering Church
- The Choir entering Church
- At the Altar
Display in Church during Holy Week
- The Last Supper Display
Maundy Thursday
Activities for St. John's School
- Introduction by Fr. Mark
- Palm Tree
- Children wrote what they wanted to praise God about on the Palm leaves.
- Children thinking with Fr. Mark about what they wanted to praise God about.
- Last Supper Activity.
- Finding out about the Last Supper.
- Recording their findings.
- At the High Altar children talked about Good Friday.
- Then they lit a candle.
- Children working on their Easter Cards.
- The Garden of Gethsemane
- Adding stickers to the Easter Cards.
- End of session
- Children and parents greeted by Fr. Ivan.
- All children enjoyed the afternoon.
Foot Washing
The Altar of Repose
- The Altar of Repose
Good Friday
Stations of the Cross
- Following the Way of the Cross
Children's Activities for Good Friday
- Looking at the Stations of the Cross on the way from Pilate to the hill where Jesus was crucified
- On the way to the Crucifixion
- On the hillside where Jesus was crucified
- Asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane
- Pilate asks the question: free Jesus - or Barabas?
Veneration of the Cross
- The Altar on Good Friday
Holy Saturday
First came the church reordering...
- Moving the choir stalls.
- Decision making
- Carefully moving the organ
- Moving the vicar's and curate's stalls
- Making sure all is equal and straight
- Checking out the new altar rails
Meanwhile, children were working with Annie to make an Easter Garden in our Parish Hall.
Some did the cleaning and some decorated the church with flowers.
- Decorating the baldacchino
- Dusting
- Cleaning and polishing the candlesticks
This is how it now looks!
The Easter Garden
- The Easter garden
Easter Vigil
- Blessing of the Fire
- Inscribing the Paschal Candle
After the Vigil we all had some Sparkling Wine and a Maltese Easter Treat.
Easter Day
- Introit
- Blessing of the Easter Garden
- Proclamation of the Easter Gospel
- Regina Coeli
- Recessional
