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A first for Christendom: Holy Week without church

Isolation has always been part of the Holy Week story

4 April 2020

9:00 AM

4 April 2020

9:00 AM

Many of us try to give things up during Lent. Usually it is alcohol, or biscuits. Who would have thought that this Lent we would have to give up each other, and distance ourselves even from those we love most and from all those activities upon which we have relied so much.

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Stephen Cottrell is Bishop of Chelmsford and Archbishop of York designate. His book Walking the Way of the Cross is for personal or group use in Lent and Holy Week.

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