Holy Week has not quite felt like itself this year, with the sudden determination in the sun’s warmth and the half-lifting of pandemic restrictions sending an extra surge of traffic out onto the roads and crowds into the parks. Still, I would not exchange it for last year’s Holy Week, when the first wave of the virus was at its height. Now all the figures, including the extraordinary statistics emerging from the vaccine programme, suggest that the end might be in sight. Let us hope it may be so.
But first, Good Friday: the gloom, the hush, the void.
From a television broadcast of the Good Friday Office of Readings from Westminster Cathedral, 9 April 1993: the reading from the Gospel of Matthew is sung by the late Fr. Mark Langham, a priest loved by many, who died on January 15th this year.
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