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Lent Study Groups
Some Churches run their own Lent study courses which may not be specifically ecumenical but may be open to friends and neighbours as well as Parishioners.
Kings Cross Ecumenical Fellowship Lent Bible Study and Discussion Course
“Seeking Christian Reconciliation: Living with Compliments and Opposites?”
Based on CTBI course – see below.
Wednesdays 16 March – 13 April 10.45 for 11am at Lumen URC (except 1st session)
16/3 “Order and Disorder” with Fr Christopher Cawrse from Holy Cross Church – this session will be at the Consolata Missionary Sisters, 11 Regent Square, a few doors east of Lumen.
23/3 “Self and Other” with Pastor Ulrich Lincoln from St Mary’s Lutheran Church.
30/3 “Unity and Separation” with Rev. Barry Jones from the United Reformed Church.
6/4 “Speaking and Listening” with Rev. Pippa Turner from Royal Medical & Veterinary Colleges.
13/4 “Woundedness and Healing” with Sr Camilla from Women at the Well.
Details from chriscawrse@blueyonder.co.uk, T: 020 7278 6263
Churches Together in Highgate Lent Groups
Various courses will be followed at a number of different venues/days/times.
People are welcome to join more than one group. Details from Jenny Lee T: 020 8883 9267,
E: L.Warden@btinternet.com.
Gospel Oak Methodist Church invites fellow Christians to join them for a Lent Course
focussing on characters in the Passion story at 7.30pm on Wednesdays 16 March – 13 April.
Each meeting, led by the minister, the Rev Alan Haine, will be self-contained and everyone is welcome to attend any or all of the meetings.
St Martin’s Vicar’s Road 5 week Lent Course Weds 3pm from 16/3 & Thurs 7pm from 17/3.
Rich Inheritance – Jesus’ legacy of love. (York Course see below)
Please contact Rev Chris Brice if you would like to join either group.
T: 020 7485 3807, E: Chris.Brice@london.anglican.org
St Mary’s Primrose Hill also following the York course. Various times/venues.
St Peter’s and St Saviour’s Lent Groups also following an earlier York course
Great Events, Deep Meanings
Mondays 7.30pm at St Saviour’s and Tuesdays 8pm at St Peter’s
6 weeks from week beginning 7 March i.e. before Ash Wednesday.
The course focuses on some of the most significant days in the Christian year and considers their implications for us as individual believers and Christian communities.
The sessions cover Christmas, Lent, Palm Sunday & Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost.
Daily Reflections and other Resources for Lent:
The Unreconciled - Churches Together in Britain and Ireland http://www.ctbi.org.uk/520
BBC Radio 4 will be following this course in its Sunday Worship & Daily Service from Ash Wed.
Ash Wed/Sun before Lent: “Order and Disorder in the World”; followed by “Self & Other”, “Separation & Unity”, “Speaking & Listening”, “Wounds & Healing”, “Heaven & Hell” and for Palm Sunday “Lies & Truth”. Course written by Bishop Stephen Cottrell.
Rich Inheritance – Jesus’ legacy of love – York Course
https://www.yorkcourses.co.uk/course.aspx?id=2ef3ff95-7343-4c52-a4c3-4336393e4b85
5 sessions: An empty tomb, A group of people, A story, A power and A meal
Christian Aid again suggests we “Count our Blessings” and raise funds for their work
http://www.christianaid.org.uk/getinvolved/lent-2011/index.aspx
Tearfund invites us once more to join their Carbon Fast and help protect poor people from climate change. Sign up for emails with daily action, facts, prayers & reflection
http://www.tearfund.org/Campaigning/Carbon+Fast
CAFOD resources for Lent and Easter include Walk with us a contemporary Stations of the Cross taking us on a prayerful journey of transformation in solidarity with people living in poverty in the global South and “Sing a New Song” and other prayers & reflections.
www.cafod.org.uk/worship/lent-and-easter
See also http://www.chbookshop.co.uk/listing.asp?id=2407875 for list of books...
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