This podcast, written and read by Paula Gooder, features nine stories about nine different, but interlinked, women, originally written as Holy Week, Easter and Ascension Day reflections for Southwark Cathedral in 2021. Holy Week is a time when Christians across the world travel together as companions on the way in reflection and in prayer, focused on Jesus, the one whose suffering and death, whose resurrection and new life draws us together and makes us one. It is together, as God’s people, that we accompany Jesus in this last week of his life, and as we do so we join countless others who have trod this way before us. One of the powerful features of Holy Week and Easter is that our remembrance of the events in the last week of Jesus’ life joins us with those who were there with him and invites us to imagine what it might have been like to have seen the events for ourselves. Women of Holy Week: An Easter Journey in Nine Stories is published by Church House Publishing and is used here by permission. Credits: Written and read by Paula Gooder Original paintings by Ally Barrett Produced by James Newhook and Robert Folkes Theme and incidental music: All vocals by Ffion Elisa All traditional instruments played by Paul flute Johnson Composed by Thomas Allain Copyright © 2022 The Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England
In the final story, originally written for Ascension Day, we hear from Mary, Mother of Jesus.
On Easter Day, Mary tells us of a stranger she and her husband met on the road home from Jerusalem.
Today we join Mary Magdalene as she recounts how she came to meet and follow Jesus.
Salome, who grew up with Mary, tells us how she came to follow Jesus and never stopped, even when others did.
On Maunday Thursday, we join Joanna as she prepares for Passover with Jesus and his followers.
On Wednesday of Holy Week we hear from Susannah, who after being wrongly labelled a sinner, meets Jesus and becomes one of his followers.
On Tuesday of Holy Week, Anna, a native of Jerusalem tells us of the faith of her great-aunt and namesake, and how her life has changed since her passing.
On Monday of Holy Week, we join Sarah who has come to Jerusalem with her husband, a priest for the Passover. He recounts to her how he put his favourite question to a man named Jesus in the Temple that day.
On Palm Sunday we follow Miriam, a fish trader from Sepphoris in Galilee who has come to Jerusalem for the Passover.
This podcast, starting on Palm Sunday 2022 and written and read by Paula Gooder, features nine stories about nine different, but interlinked, women, originally written as Holy Week, Easter and Ascension Day reflections for Southwark Cathedral in 2021. Holy Week is a time when Christians across the world travel together as companions on the way in reflection and in prayer, focused on Jesus, the one whose suffering and death, whose resurrection and new life draws us together and makes us one. It is together, as God's people, that we accompany Jesus in this last week of his life, and as we do so we join countless others who have trod this way before us. One of the powerful features of Holy Week and Easter is that our remembrance of the events in the last week of Jesus' life joins us with those who were there with him and invites us to imagine what it might have been like to have seen the events for ourselves.
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