Striping of the altar onMaundy Thursday Striping of the altar on Maundy Thursday is a tradition developed in churches simply because the altar guilds needed to strip the altar after Maundy Thursday in preparation for the bare, stark altar on Good Friday. People stayed after worship to observe this, and it was soon experienced as…

The Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell is talking about the Lord’s Prayer across the North of England throughout 2025, a priority of his vision for Faith in the North. On Friday 28 March he was at Hull Minster, Gwen and Sheila from St. Andrew’s Church in Sutton Park went to learn about the importance and…