Lent & Easter 2026
Please find below our events for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. You are most welcome to them all!
Lent is a season where Christians are encouraged to focus on prayer, fasting and generosity to others, inspired by Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights.
Holy Week concludes the season of Lent, focusing on the events which led Jesus Christ to be executed. We journey together through this holy season of Christ’s ‘Passion’ (which comes from the Latin passio, meaning ‘to suffer’). The conclusion (Maundy Thursday through to Easter Sunday) is traditionally called the ‘Triduum’ (meaning ‘three days’).
The season of Easter begins with Easter Sunday, the day Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, the ultimate victory of life over death. Alongside Christmas, it is one of the Church’s principal festivals where - in contrast to the penitential season of Lent - feasting and celebration is encouraged!
Mothering Sunday
(& Lunch)
Sunday 15th March 2026, 10am
This marks the day where Christians would traditionally return to their ‘Mother Church’.
Followed by a delicious lunch provided by the Mother’s Union!
Palm Sunday
Sunday 29th March 2026, 10am
Where we remember Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem. This marks the beginning of ‘Holy Week’.
We begin in the Ark Hall at 10am and process into the main church.
Holy Week Reflections
Monday 30th March, 7pm
Tuesday 31st March, 7pm
Wednesday 1st April, 7pm
We meet for a 30 minute service with readings, prayers and a short reflection from one of our clergy.
Maundy Thursday
Thursday 2nd April 2026, 7pm
Join us for a Eucharist to mark the beginning of the ‘Triduum’, the three days between Jesus’ arrest, his execution, and his resurrection.
Good Friday
Friday 3rd April 2026
Churches Together Peckham, 10.30am A service where churches across Peckham and Camberwell join together. Beginning at Rye Lane Chapel and processing to Peckham Square.
Veneration of the Cross, 2pm Held in St George’s Church, we will have Distribution of the Reserved Sacrament followed by Veneration of the Cross. A quiet reflective time to sit at the cross and think of Jesus’ sacrifice for you.
Easter Sunday
Sunday 5th April, 10am
Christians’ most Holy Day! We will celebrate an especially joyful Eucharist together, and light our new Paschal (Easter) Candle to use in the year ahead. Easter egg hunt after the service!