Services | Palm Sunday

St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne 206 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria

Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. In our services, we journey with Jesus as he is welcomed in triumph upon entering Jerusalem and then utterly rejected and crucified at Golgotha outside the gates of the city. We are…

Concert | Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater

St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne 206 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria

A special Holy Week performance of Pergolesi’s evocative setting of the 13th-century Latin text depicting Mary’s suffering during Jesus’ crucifixion. 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐠 – 𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐧 – 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐑𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐢 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞 – 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧 About our Lunchtime Concert SeriesA series of lunchtime concerts…

Services | Maundy Thursday

St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne 206 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria

The three days before Easter—Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday—are known as the Holy Triduum. During this time, our worship is experienced as one drama that unfolds in three acts, seamlessly recalling the suffering, death, burial, and resurrection of…

Service | Good Friday Liturgy

St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne 206 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria

A solemn telling of the Passion story in music and commemoration of the death of Jesus on the Cross, with the opportunity for personal prayers before the Cross. Preacher: The Precentor

Good Friday | Way of the Cross

St Francis Catholic Church 312 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Melbourne, VIC

The combined Melbourne City Churches in Action will hold the annual Good Friday ‘Way of the Cross’ Walk once again in 2023. Christian pilgrims worldwide have re-enacted the journey of Jesus’s last day, by walking ‘The Way of the Cross’…

Good Friday Concert | ‘The Crucifixion’ John Stainer

St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne 206 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria

Since 1892, the Cathedral Choir has sung John Stainer’s “meditation on the sacred passion of the Holy Redeemer”, otherwise known as The Crucifixion, on almost every Good Friday. This passion oratorio recounts the events preceding and during Christ’s crucifixion, told…