The Dean’s book for Passiontide was published earlier this year. In three sessions, online and in-person, Andrew will look at what the passion means for us then and now. You do not need to have read the book to share in these sessions

Session 1 – The Shadow of the Cross
Tuesday 29 March at 7pm (online only)

Just as a sundial casts a shadow so does the cross.  Where does that shadow fall and what does it point to?

To join this session which is online only via Zoom please register via Eventbrite here

Session 2 – Passion in Jesus’ time

Sunday 3 April at 9.45am (online and in person)

How do we understand the historical events? How do we relate to them? We know the story so well, how can we hear it this year?

To join this session online via Zoom please register via Eventbrite here if you wish to join in-person please make your way to the Cathedral Library for 9.45am.

Session 3 – Passion in Our Time

Sunday 10 April at 9.45am (online and in-person)

The events of the Passion took place 2000 years ago, but what do they mean for me, today?

To join this session online via Zoom please register via Eventbrite here if you wish to join in-person please make your way to the Cathedral Library for 9.45am.

The Book...

The gospel accounts change when we come to the final days of Jesus' life and for the first time we are given precise timings when things happen, 'It was night', 'the next morning', 'it was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him', 'it was noon', 'it was three o'clock in the afternoon'.

The Hour is Come enables readers to enter into the experience of Jesus, his disciples and all the other players in the Passion narrative by using 'real time' to immerse us in the story. Ideal for daily reading during Lent, Holy Week and Easter, it offers scripture reflections and prayers that trace the journey to and beyond the cross.

It begins on Mothering Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Lent, with a reminder that Jesus' journey to the cross began in infancy. The pace is slow at the beginning but during the great 'Three Days' from Maundy Thursday evening until Easter Day, the story unfolds hour by hour as it happens. Then the pace slows again as we move through Easter's fifty days to Pentecost. This presentation reveals a God so intimately involved with human life that the ticking clock becomes part of how we know Jesus.

Signed copies can be purchased from the Cathedral Shop or Online Store here