Easter Vigil – Holy Saturday 7:30pm. Celebrate the Vigil of Easter leading to the first Eucharist of Easter for 2012. Light the Easter flame and bless the Paschal Candle.

Easter Day

8:00am Holy Communion

9:30am Holy Communion with families and children in mind

11:15am Traditional Book of Common Prayer Easter Eucharist

 

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Services for Good Friday 2012

9:00am – “At the foot of the cross” commemoration of the Passion of Jesus Christ

12:00pm – 3:00pm – “The three hour service” – traditional vigil of the crucifixion with reflections on 6 of the characters in the Passion Narrative throughout the 3 hours; Peter, The Roman Centurion, Pilate, Caiaphas, Judas, Mary Magdalene. The Choir of St Andrews Parish will join us for the final hour of the service.

 

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Today’s sermon is preached by the Vicar, Canon Andrew Hedge. The readings for today’s service, are Exodus 1:8-2:10; Romans 12:1-8; Matthew 16:13-20

Andrew preaches on the topic of responding to God from our sacred centre.

This sermon will also be available on our podcast on iTunes. Search the iTunes Store for ‘St Andrews Anglican Church, Cambridge’

If you don’t have a copy of iTunes, you can download a copy here.

 

 

Our celebration weekend is fast approaching. You can view the details for the events on a new page “Celebrations 2011″

Following the assassination of Osama bin Laden this week, the Archbishops of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia have released this statement - Death of Osama bin Laden

The NZ Council of Christian Social Services, with the support of many Churches in NZ, have organised a National Day of Prayer for the Pacific. This comes in response to a demand from many in our communities to share with others their grief at the events in Christchurch, Japan and at Pike River.

A service will be held at St Andrews Anglican Church, Cambridge on Saturday 30 April at midday.

If you can’t make it to the service you may like to take time to reflect on the people of the Pacific as you watch this video.

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Pacific Pray poster

After a sabbatical year in 2010, the Incedo team have returned with Stations of the Cross in Hamilton Gardens again for this year.

This is sure to be a highlight of the Holy Week experience in the Waikato. I encourage you to head along at some stage during the week, or to join us on Wednesday evening at St Andrews for Evening Prayer at 7:00pm. After the service we’ll carpool and head into Hamilton for this Holy Week experience.

The Ulysses Cambridge to Hamilton Toy Run in support of Child Cancer Foundation roared through the streets of Cambridge on Sunday 27 February. We were delighted to have a group of keen motorcyclists from the parish join the ride again this year. The parishioners were very generous again with donations of toys for the Child Cancer Foundation and following the 9:30am service we were helped to load over 100 toys onto our bikes. The sun was out, the crowds were lining the streets and we had a wonderful experience, helping to bring a bit of joy and gladness into the world. Thanks to everyone who made the day special and for my motorcycling companions, Chris, Emily, Laura and Adrian …. Andrew (Reverend Rider! – thanks for the nickname Ann!)

These photos have been kindly provided by Ann Huston at Cambridge Edition and were taken by Shayne Eldridge.

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St Andrews Youth Group spent a Friday evening recently at Autoworx Mistubishi Dealer in Cambridge. Thanks to Neil and Rob from Autoworx who showed us through their race and rally cars. We also spent some of the evening learning about the basics of car maintenance and in particular how to change a flat tyre. The evening finished with a pit-crew competition, complete with ear muffs and rattle guns. We had a great night and a big thanks to Neil and Rob for making it such a special start to the year.

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