Lent

Lent is the period beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending at Easter, during which Christians have traditionally fasted and devoted themselves to prayer in remembrance of Christ’s death. Just as Jesus fasted and prayed in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights (Matthew 4:1-11), we likewise fast and pray for forty days and nights. 

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Fast

Self-denial is a spiritual discipline which ​make us aware of our need for God, creates the space for prayer and meditation, and even helps us to identify with Christ's own sufferings.  

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This Lent we encourage you to fast.  This could mean abstaining from eating one day a week, or one meal a week, or giving up certain foods for the duration.  You could also choose to give up something(s) like alcohol, Netflix, social media, etc.  It should be feel like a sacrifice!

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Pray

Each week during Lent we will have a Psalm which we will read together in worship, and we also encourage you to read this psalm throughout the week before that Sunday and allow it to direct your prayers.​

 

 

First Sunday, 9 March

Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16

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Second Sunday, 16 March

Psalm 27

     

Third Sunday, 23 March

Psalm 63:1-8

 

Fourth Sunday, 30 March

Psalm 32

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  Fifth Sunday, 6 April

Psalm 126

 

Sixth Sunday, 13 April

Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29

 

Good Friday, 18 April

Psalm 22​​​​​​

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