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Easter Vigil 8pm Saturday Service

Saturday, April 8, 2023
8:00 PM 9:00 PM

Transitional Cathedral 234 Hereford Street Christchurch, Canterbury, 8011 New Zealand (map)

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Join the Diocese at the Transitional Cathedral for the Great Vigil of Easter

Holy Week at Saint Mark’s Opawa:

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Palm Sunday celebrates Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem, riding on a donkey, with crowds waving palm branches and shouting “hosanna”

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Mar 11, 2025

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Evening Communion

Mar 11, 2025

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Mar 11, 2025

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Mar 5, 2025

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM19:00 – 20:007:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Ash Wednesday

Mar 5, 2025

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM19:00 – 20:007:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Mar 5, 2025

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM19:00 – 20:007:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Dec 25, 2024

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM09:00 – 10:009:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Christmas Day Service

Dec 25, 2024

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM09:00 – 10:009:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Dec 25, 2024

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM09:00 – 10:009:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Dec 24, 2024 – Dec 25, 2024

11:00 PM23:0011:00 PM

Christmas Eve Service

Dec 24, 2024 – Dec 25, 2024

11:00 PM23:0011:00 PM

Dec 24, 2024 – Dec 25, 2024

11:00 PM23:0011:00 PM

Dec 23, 2024

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM17:00 – 18:005:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Children’s Nativity Service

Dec 23, 2024

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM17:00 – 18:005:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Dec 23, 2024

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM17:00 – 18:005:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Dec 22, 2024

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM10:00 – 11:0010:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Dec 22, 2024

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM10:00 – 11:0010:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Dec 22, 2024

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM10:00 – 11:0010:00 AM – 11:00 AM

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Online Night Prayer during Lent

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Apr 27

10:00 AM – 11:15 AM10:00 – 11:1510:00 AM – 11:15 AM

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St Marks Opawa - Celebrating 160 Years

10:00 AM – 11:15 AM10:00 – 11:1510:00 AM – 11:15 AM

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