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Lent is a time of preparation for
the great festival of Easter. A time for reflection
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A prayer
for Lent |
Dear God, our Father,
When I stop to think
I am amazed at Your love for me.
You created me, and all the Universe.
You never cease to sustain me with life.
You have given me my friends and relatives
and all that is good and beautiful
and true, to enjoy.
Most of all You have shown Your love
by sending us Your Son.
Help me
to keep this Lent
as an opportunity for
knowing Him more clearly,
loving Him more dearly
and following Him more nearly,
day by day.
Amen
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Opportunities for prayer in Lent |
 Prayer
walking in Lent
The Lenten Journey is a journey of prayer and the Labyrinth offers
a unique opportunity to walk meditatively in prayer.
The Labyrinth will be available
on Wednesdays in Lent, from 10:30am to 12 noon on
March 17th, March 31st,
Wednesday evenings from 8pm to 10pm:
March 10th
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Music
at St John's |
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 Felicitas
directed by Simon Winters
Ash Wednesday to Easter
St John's Church
Saturday 20 March at 7:30pm
Palestrina - Missa Papae Marcelli
Poulenc - Stabat Mater
Tickets £10, children under 16 £5
Phone 020 8498 0561 or
Felicitas website |
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Ash
Wednesday Sermons |
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2004
Loads of Guilt
2005 morning
Imposition of Ashes
2005 evening
So what have you given up? |
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Lent
Groups
this year we are holding house groups to follow Robert Warren and Kate Bruce's course:
Life Calling
In five interactive sessions this course aims to help groups explore
- Called by God discovering the shape of God's call
- Called from within, drawing out the call and gifts that God has planted in us,
- Called out: being set free from everything that stops us responding to God's call
- Called up understanding how God calls us to join in with us loving care of the world.
- Called: growing in our sense of calling beyond the end of the course.
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 Reynolds
Sermon -
8pm,
24 March 2010
the Wednesday
next before Palm Sunday
In
1648 the will of John Reynolds bequeathed to us the sum of £1 for the
preaching of a sermon on the 'Wednesday next before Palm Sunday'.
We revived the custom in 2005 when Bishop David preached (and got his
pound!). On 24 March this year, we hear The Reverend Professor
Richard Burridge speaking on the Cross through Four Eyes.
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Items of
interest... |
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 Lent
Lunches
Saturdays 12.30-2pm
A series of lunches in the different churches during Lent to
raise money for Christian Aid:
Dates and times
27 February St John's Church Hall
6 March United Reformed Church 13 March Methodist Church Methodist Hall
20 March Immaculate Conception Hall
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 Walk
of Witness -
Good Friday - 2 April
Each year on Good Friday we hold a Walk of Witness in the High
Street with a series of dramas acted out at stages along the
route.
[Read
a previous year's script...] |
 Women's
World Day of Prayer
10:30am Friday 5 March
This
year this service will be held at the Methodist Church. The
service materials come from Cameroon and are based on the theme 'Let
everything that has breath, praise the Lord.
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Lent
Appeals |
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In Lent we try not to see it as just a time
of giving up, but also a time of taking things on. This year
St John's will be supporting both the
PCDC - a charity supporting destitute youngsters in Palestine and
The Box, Epping
providing much needed support for youngsters
in Epping.
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Lent
