Author: Jo Dawes

Please click on 'Service' page for services times for May – June. A flyer is available here.

Highlights include Choral Evensong, a Taizé service, and a joint Ascension Day service with the Swedish Church.

The Lent Bible Study was such a hit that there is a core group who have pestered the Chaplain to continue! All those who would like to join regularly or occasionally are welcome. Kick-off for the Bible Study group is Wednesday 2 May, 19:30 in the Chaplain's flat (Englische Planke 1A). Please bring your own Bible.

Sunday 29th April is Marathon Day in Hamburg. Please don't let this deter you from coming to church, but make allowances for traffic disruption.

A video summary based around the Service of Thanksgiving is available on www.stbecket400.de. Please look in video section for other webcasts.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, 2012 Holy Week lectures at Canterbury Cathedral are on the theme 'St Paul: the Man and his Letters'.

Outstanding listening that can be accessed here.

All hands on deck please!

Renu is calling all willing scrubbers to join the happy band 12:00-15:00, Saturday 7 April to help make the church look its best for Easter.

Please come along if you can!

Sunday, 1 April is Palm Sunday the start of Holy Week, which begins with the enactment of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, only days later to find himself arrested and facing an agonising death. And there is the really interesting part… Easter!

Everyone is welcome to join in the drama of the week through the series of services noted above.

And to get you thinking, there is a new Pause for Thought – A question of loyalty?

'Just as the golden daffodils are blooming and spring is in the air, so the golden edition of the
Becket News
is published. Yes we have edition 50, a golden anniversary for our church anniversary year!'

So writes the editor BN editor in poetic mode! And it is a truly golden edition.

The editor and contributors hope you enjoy the read, as much as we in Hamburg are enjoying the 400th anniversary celebrations to date.

Please also take the chance and use the STB400 Memories page to leave a message or memory, it can be your way of joining in the celebration.

A new Pause for Thought has been posted!

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has
announced he is to stand down in December. He will take the position of Master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge from January 2013.