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Holy Week and Easter – 2025
An invitation from the Beacon Parishes to a week of celebration.
Please join us for our celebration of Holy Week and Easter. This is the high point of the Christian year. We will celebrate the story of Holy Week and Easter over a week long festival with many lovely gatherings to enjoy and take part in.
12th April – Saturday
We get into the Easter mood with activities and crafts, coffee and chat.
We are gathering in the morning
10.30am – 12noon St Andrew’s Ipplepen – a morning of coffee, chat, activities and crafts around the Easter Story – for all ages, children bring a parent!
13th April – Palm Sunday
We celebrate how Jesus made his final journey into Jerusalem riding on a Donkey
We are gathering in the morning
10am St John the Baptist Woodland – Holy Communion with a dramatised reading of Christ’s Passion.
We meet in Woodland parish rooms and then walk to the church remembering Jesus entry to Jerusalem.
Monday 14th, Tue 15th, Wednesday 16th of Holy Week
We get ready for our celebration of Easter which will start on Maundy Thursday with some small services offering times of reflection.
Monday 14th April
12 noon St Peter and St Paul’s Broadhempston – silent prayer and mediation
6.30pm St Andrew’s Ipplepen -final Lent study group and Holy Communion
Tuesday 15th April
9.15am St Andrew’s Ipplepen, Morning Prayer
10.15am St Andrew’s Ipplepen, Holy Communion
6pm St Mary’s Denbury, Stations of the Cross
Wednesday 16th April
9.30am St Mary’s Denbury, Morning Prayer
10.30am St Mary’s Denbury, Holy Communion
17th April – Maundy Thursday
We celebrate how Jesus loved his disciples to the end, stopping at nothing for love. Jesus gives himself in a meal and in washing his disciples’ feet.
We are gathering in the evening.
7pm St Andrew’s Ipplepen Holy Communion including footwashing followed by The Watch (sitting with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane)
18th April – Good Friday
We celebrate Jesus’ faithfulness in the light of human fickleness. A faithfulness that took him to the cross.
There are a number of gatherings across the day
10am – 12noon St Mary’s Denbury – Easter Garden Walk for children and families…..collecting flowers, moss etc on the walk and then making the Easter garden
10.30am St Andrew’s Ipplepen – short service followed by the Walk of Witness (carrying the cross) through Ipplepen Village
12noon to 3pm St Peter and St Paul’s Broadhempston …sitting at the foot of the cross…interactive quiet reflective time come and go as you wish.
19th April – Holy Saturday
We celebrate that God could not wait to share his love and dispel fear. Jesus is risen at night.
We are gathering in the evening
8pm St Mary’s Denbury – Easter Vigil starting with the blessing of the Easter fire outside the church and ending with the first Easter celebration of Holy Communion.
20th April – Easter Sunday
We begin our celebration of the mystery of Easter a celebration that lasts 50 days. We celebrate that in Jesus’ resurrection darkness becomes light, death becomes life, and sacrifice becomes love.
We have a gathering in each of our villages in the morning
9 30am St Peter and St Paul’s Broadhempston Holy Communion with children’s craft table and Easter egg hunt
10am St John the Baptist, Woodland – Holy Communion
10am St Mary’s Denbury Holy Communion followed at 11.30am by Easter Bonnet parade and Easter egg hunt.
11am St Andrew’s Ipplepen Holy Communion with children’s activities and Easter gg hunt
All are welcome at these lovely gatherings as we celebrate together the amazing story of Easter over this week long festival.
Rev’d Andrew Down
Rector of the Beacon Parishes Mission Community
Quick links to pages about what is happening:
Public Facebook pages 
We have Facebook pages for three of our parishes. These are open public pages and you do not need to have a Facebook account to view these. Please have a look at them and recommend to your contacts:
Ipplepen: www.facebook.com/StAndrewsIpplepen
Denbury: www.facebook.com/denburyworship
Broadhempston: www.facebook.com/Broad20/
Private Beacon Community Facebook page
For those with Facebook accounts, we also have the ‘Beacon Community Group’. This was set up as a discussion forum to build on the greater Mission Community awareness.
www.facebook.com/groups/424938598594105
The ‘Beacon Community Group’ group is Private, which means that only members can see, or write, posts on its page. Membership requests have to be approved by an administrator before you can read or post in the group. The group is ‘visible’ on Facebook, i.e. you can find it by searching for the name, but people won’t be able to go further than that without first being accepted as a member.
Catalogues of Kneelers
There are now catalogues of the kneelers in Ipplepen and Woodland. There is a copy in each church and they can also be viewed on line. Have a look!
Safeguarding
Update on Safeguarding Training during this time
Following consultation with the National Safeguarding Team (NST), we have been advised of the updated position on Safeguarding Training requirements in light of the current isolation and social distancing advice to tackle the Covid-19 virus. Read the guidance here.
The Beacon Parishes Safeguarding Policy can be found on the following link: Safeguarding Policy 2019
If you have a concern about the safety of someone or the actions of someone working with children or vulnerable adults, please speak to someone:
- The Beacon Mission Community Safeguarding Representative for each parish is:
- Ipplepen: Sheila Sheldon – 01803 814227
- Denbury: Tessa Amies – 01803 813993
- Broadhempston: Paul Russell – 01803 762928
- Woodland: David Wrayford – 01364 652323
- Our Local Advocate for Children and Adults who may be at risk is Ann Holroyd. Contact number 01803 411373
- The Diocesan Safeguarding Team’s contact details can be obtained on the following link – https://exeter.anglican.org/resources/safeguarding/safeguarding-team/
If you are a young person and you feel unhappy about something happening to you, you can call Childline on 0800 11 11
Data Privacy Statement for the parishes of the Beacon Mission Community of Ipplepen with Torbryan, Denbury, Broadhempston and Woodland
The Data Privacy Statement can be found on the following page: Data Privacy