Welcome to the Parish of Modbury and Golden Grove

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Palm Sunday

 

There is something deeply compelling about the scene we enter on Palm Sunday. A crowd gathers.  Cloaks are spread on the road. Branches are waved. Voices rise with hope and expectation: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” It feels like a moment charged with possibility—as though, at last, something

might change.  And yet, we know this story too well to rest in that moment alone. We know how quickly the mood will shift. We know that the same city that welcomes Jesus will soon reject him. What begins in celebration will move, step by step, toward the cross. Palm Sunday holds together both joy and unease, hope and foreboding. It invites us to look more closely—not just at what the crowd expects, but at who Jesus truly is.

 

This year, that question feels particularly urgent. In a world marked by conflict, instability, and the persistent threat of violence, we are not unfamiliar with longing for peace, for resolution, for a leader who can set things right. The voices that cry “Hosanna” are not so different from our own.  But the king who comes does not arrive as expected.

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esus enters not with force, but with humility. Not to dominate, but to serve. Not to meet the crowd’s expectations, but to transform them. In doing so, he reveals a different kind of power—one that will only be fully understood in the days that follow.

 

As we begin Holy Week, we are invited not just to remember this story, but to enter it—to walk with Jesus, to wrestle with who he is, and to consider what it means to follow him in our own time

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Easter services. 

Maundy Thursday, 2nd April 7.00pm

Good Friday, 3rd April 9.00am

Easter Sunday 5th April 9.00am

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Usual weekly services and activities:

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Sunday:        Holy Communion 8.00 am

                       Holy Communion 10am

Monday:       Bible Study 10.00 am 

Tuesday:       Holy Communion 8.30 am

                        Community Garden 9.30 am

                        Christian meditation 9;30-10am alternate Tuesday from

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Wednesday: Bible Study 10.00 am

                        Fortnightly Foodbank   10.00 am

Thursday:      Holy Communion 10.00 am

Friday:            Community Garden 9.30 am

                        

 

1st Tuesday of the month Community Garden BBQ 11.30 am

1st and 3rd Sunday of the month Bari Service 11.30 am

2nd Thursday of the month Men's Group 7.30 pm

1st Friday of the month "Come as You Are" - Women's Fellowship 10-12 ​

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