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One of the churches that will be having Easter Services is St George’s Cathedral in the Cape Town CBD
Hundreds of congregants gathered at St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town to observe the beginning of Holy Week.
The congregants started walking from the Company’s Gardens towards the church carrying small crosses made of palm leaves.
Easter Week, in terms of the Christian Scripture, is the period during which Jesus Christ was welcomed into Jerusalem with crowds waving palm branches and shouting Hosanna!
This week brings to a close the period of Lent, a 40-day season of fasting and prayer.
The Dean of St George’s Cathedral, Father Terry Lester, says the Maundy Thursday rites lead into the Good Friday vigil
“Throughout the ages there were people who did not allow themselves to be overwhelmed by darkness and who kept pushing toward the light and on Maundy Thursday we wash each other’s feet in the service here which is the focal point of our life and the institution of the last supper, which is where we get our Eucharist from, and then we have a watch through the night into Good Friday and then on holy Saturday night for the Easter vigil. We meet in a dark church and as the service continues, the lights go on and kind of making that movement from darkness to light a physical and visceral reality”.
Video: St George’s Cathedral marks Holy Week, commemorating the final days of Christ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWtAs-VmCVY
