Sacred time

MELVIN Peters, left, a pianist and music director for the Diakonia Good Friday Service; Reverend Chundran Chetty (centre), and Kasavan Charles Naidoo with the cross of Christ, which is a symbol of hope, personified in Christ’s death and resurrection. The Editor and staff of the POST wish our readers and advertisers a blessed Easter.

THIS week is Holy Week for Christians – the most sacred time of year – with Good Friday and the Easter weekend.

The annual Good Friday dawn service and silent street procession will take place on Friday in front of the Durban City Hall at 6am.

This year’s theme is “Challenging Indifference”, a reference to the privileged being “indifferent to the suffering around us”.

The service will be hosted by the Diakonia Council of Churches with the Denis Hurley Centre as it commemorates 20 years since the death of Archbishop Hurley and 10 years of the existence of the Denis Hurley Centre, as well as 30 years of democracy. vigil on Saturday at 7pm. The Easter Sunday service will commence at 8am. For information, call the church at 031 306 3595,

The Durban Christian Jesus Dome will have a Family Matters Service on Thursday at 7pm. Congregants can write a prayer request and nail it to a cross. The Good Friday and Easter Sunday services are at 8am and 10.30am. For information, call 031 242 5000.

The People’s Church of God will have Good Friday services at 7.15am and 9am; and a Easter Sunday sunrise service at 6am at the Mobeni Heights Cemetery. Bring along a flower and visit the grave of a loved one. For information, call Rachael Moodley at 031 402 1522. St Margaret’s Presbyterian Church will have a Tenebrae service on Thursday at 6.30pm; a Good Friday service at 8.30am; and, its Easter Sunday sunrise service at 6.30am at Ansteys/ Brighton Beach. For information, call Reverend Cecil at 084 680 1305.