Evensong is a good starting point if you’re new to Cathedral worship. It takes place every day except Wednesday (Mon-Fri 5.30pm; Saturday 4.15pm; Sun 3pm). It is a rich combination of psalms, canticles, (occasional) hymns and prayers, making it at once at quietly contemplative and rousing spiritual encounter at our Cathedral, and an excellent opportunity to hear our choir in action!
This service includes an address from Canon Rosie Woodall, Canon for Worship and Spirituality and Vice Dean. The reflections in this Holy Week are all based around the women who witnessed, and often played a key role in, the events of the final week of Jesus’ life. Most of them are unnamed in Scripture – and admittedly with one or two of them, I’m stretching whether they existed at all – but I wanted to reclaim their stories to make the week less dominated by the famous men we all know about. It was the women after all who remain true to Jesus while the men condemn, betray or abandon him. It seems particularly appropriate in the year in which we celebrate thirty years of women priests in the Church of England to bring women to the forefront of the story.
