On Easter Sunday, St Columba’s began early with a “sunrise” service, followed by a fair trade breakfast of muesli, hard-boiled eggs, hot crossed buns or toast and bananas, in the church hall. The main family service included the “greening of the cross”, where members of the congregation came forwards with a daffodil to be attached […]
Easter 2010
A number of special services were held as part of our Easter celebrations. On Palm Sunday (28 March), we remembered Jesus’ popularly acclaimed arrival at Jerusalem, marking the start of Holy Week. As the crowds then had waved palm branches, so at St Columba’s, we were given palm leaves woven into the shape of crosses. […]