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Lent Study Groups - Lent Evening
Worship - Soup on Saturdays - Services
LENT—WHAT IS IT? 
Lent is the
period of 40 days leading up to Holy Week & Easter.
The 40 days echo
the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness and the 40 years that the
Israelites spent in the desert.
Historically was
the time when new Christians prepared for their baptism by study, prayer and
fasting.
The 40 days of
Lent are a good time to think about who we are and what gives our lives
meaning.
GIVING UP?
Traditionally
people give things up for Lent: meat and alcohol, fats and sugars, chocolate
and crisps. The idea is to live a simple life and think about what we
really need.
TAKING UP?
Giving up is particularly useful if it
also helps us to take up: for example, giving up a
favourite TV show or computer game to make time to pray or study or help out.
Lent is ideal
time to take up something that will strengthen your faith: anything from
saying grace before meals to learning New Testament Greek (this might take
more than 40 days!).
We can also use
Lent as a time to find ways to help out more—in our families, neighbourhoods
and schools
Study, prayer and
service are all good areas to think about taking something up.
WHAT ARE WE DOING
FOR LENT?
We join with our
sister churches in Clapham for study groups and evening worship throughout
Lent.
LENT STUDY GROUPS
Churches Together in Clapham
Lent Study Groups:
Seeking wisdom
& pursuing justice for the whole of creation
Monday 1.30pm Here
at Holy Spirit
Monday 7.30pm
Christ Church, Union Road
Wednesday 1.30pm
Holy Trinity Clapham
Wednesday 7.30pm Clapham Methodist Church
Churches Together in Clapham LENT EVENING WORSHIP
Every Sunday
evening at 6.30 pm worship in different traditions:
18th Feb– St James
25th Feb – Christ Church
4th Mar – St Mary’s
11th Mar – Orthodox Service at St Peter’s
18th Mar ‐Choral Evensong at
Holy Spirit
25th March PALM SUNDAY-
Clapham Methodist Church
QUIET MORNINGS Promises, Promises, Promises
We shall be holding
two quiet mornings in
Lent on this theme. Come and enrich your Lenten journey as we spend time
reflecting on God’s promises.
Thursday 1st March
10-12.30 followed by said Eucharist and Lunch
Saturday 3rd March
10-1.30 including lunch.
An all age morning
with separate activities for children.
SOUP on SATURDAYS
We shall again be hosting
Lent
Lunches in Aid of the Bishop of Southwark’s Lent Call
supporting projects in our diocese,
Zimbabwe, the Holy Land.
Saturdays from 17th February 12-2.
A simple lunch of soup and bread
and some good company, do come along and join us.
Second hand books also on sale
LENT & EASTER
SERVICES at HOLY SPIRIT
February
14 Ash Wednesday
8.00pm
Service of Penitence with Imposition of Ashes
March
11 Mothering Sunday
10.30am
All Age Eucharist for the whole family
March
25 Palm Sunday
10.15am
Procession with Palms
meet
outside Bonneville School at 10am
10.30am
Eucharist with Passion Drama
March 29 Maundy Thursday
8pm Eucharist of last supper with footwashing
Followed by silent prayer
March 30 Good Friday
10am
Family Workshop
12 noon
Stations of the Cross
1pm Mass
with veneration of the Cross
2pm
Meditations on the Cross
April 1
Easter Day
5.30am Dawn service with lighting of Easter Fire
10.30am Festival Mass
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