Lent, Holy Week and Easter
at Great St Mary's
Worship & Discipleship during Lent
Everyone is welcome to come to services at Great St Mary's., and we warmly encourage you also to join small groups and other activities to support faith and spiritual life.
Preparing for baptism and confirmation
We are offering preparation sessions for baptism and confirmation during Lent and Eastertide, for people of all ages. Please email clergy@gsm.cam.ac.uk to find out more.
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Regular services in Lent
Monday-Friday
9.00am Morning Prayer
Mondays
12.30pm Christian Meditation
Hervey de Stanton Chapel, Michaelhouse
Tuesdays
10.30am The Ark Holy Communion for babies, toddlers amd their grownups, in Michaelhouse
5.45pm Choral Evening Prayer
Wednesdays
12.30pm Holy Communion
Thursdays
6.00pm Choral Evensong
Sundays
8.00am BCP Communion
10.00am Choral Eucharist
4.00pm Choral Evensong
Special services in Lent
Ash Wednesday - 18 February
12.30pm Holy Communion
with imposition of ashes
1.30pm Ashes to go
outside the west door / in the Marketplace
7.30pm Choral Eucharist
with imposition of ashes
Mothering Sunday - 15 March
10.00am All Together (all age) Eucharist
Festival Evensong - 22 March
4.00pm Choral Evensong
Preacher: Brother Samuel SSF
Followed by refreshments
5.30pm Panel discussion
hope in the face of environmental crisis
Lent Talks 2026
Food for mind, soul and body in Michaelhouse:
1-2pm on Wednesdays 25th February, 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th March
on the theme of 'Hope plus...'
With a simple soup and bread lunch.
Books for Lent
Dancing to the heartbeat of God is the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book for 2026
A collaboration by sustainable engineering expert Professor Julian Allwood, and Revd Canon Andrew Davison, Regius Professor of Divinity in Oxford.
Worship and Music during Holy Week
Palm Sunday
29 March at 10am
A traditional Palm Sunday procession through the market square at 10am is followed by a reading of the Passion and a service of sung Holy Communion inside the church. Everyone is welcome to this service, which will also be livestreamed
Maundy Thursday
2 April at 7pm
A beautiful choral service at which Revd Dr Isabelle Hamley will preach, with the washing of feet, the remembrance of the Last Supper, and Holy Communion. Followed by a vigil with the Sacrament in St Andrew's Chapel
Good Friday
3 April
11.30am
Ecumenical Act of Witness
in the market place
12.00-12.30pm
Silence is kept
12.30 - 1.25pm
Good Friday meditations:
by the Revd Dr Isabelle Hamley
1.30 - 3pm Liturgy of Good Friday
with veneration of the cross and Communion from the Reserved Sacrament.
Easter Day
5 April
A joyful celebration of the great Day of Resurrection! Come and join us as we remember God's good news with song, story, and sacrament.
5.45am Dawn Vigil and
First Eucharist of Easter
8am BCP Holy Communion
10am Choral Eucharist
11.45am Choral Mattins