EASTER SUPPLEMENTContentsApril10 2009

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Cover: Evening light shines on a crucifix in the vestibule of St Paul’s Basilica in Toronto (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

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Palm Sunday, 5th April

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3.30pm Vespers and Benediction Maundy Thursday, 9th April 6.30pm Solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper Mandatum and Procession to the Altar of Repose

Watching until midnight Good Friday, 10th April

10 am Tenebrae 12 noon Children's Stations of the Cross

3pm Liturgy of the Passion 6.30pm Stations of the Cross Holy Saturday, 11th April

10 am Tenebrae 9.30 pm Easter Vigil Easter Sunday, 12th April Mass at 7, 8, 9 (Tridentine) 10, 11am (Solemn) 12.30, 4.30, 7pm

3.30pm Solemn Vespers and Solemn Benediction

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4 LEAD ARTICLE Fr Aidan Nichols OP ponders the prayer of the Good Thief on the Cross: ‘Lord, remember me...’

6 FIRST PERSON The Cross is both a challenge and a comfort, says Fr Michael Seed

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11 MUSIC Michael White searches for Easter hope in Ireland’s precarious arts scene 14 MEDITATION Novelist Sara Maitland imagines Jesus’s first fall on the Way of the Cross

16 COOKERY Fr Timothy Gardner OP marvels at the wondrous versatility of the humble egg

17 END PIECE Mary Wakefield on the free restaurant that brings together the homeless and the well-heeled

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