Thursday 1 February 2024 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, It was good to see many of you at the ecumenical service at the Münster last Sunday. This Sunday, we will be back in St Ursula's as usual. House Groups
Church Clean Up Day
Shrove Tuesday Pancakes
LENT Ash Wednesday, 14th February. As usual, we will mark this significant occasion with a special Eucharist, 6.30pm. During this service there will be time for self-examination and confession and reflection on how we will use this period of Lent. We will also include the traditional ashing when we receive the sign of the cross in ash on our foreheads, reminding us of our sin and mortality, but also of the life and forgiveness there is in Christ. Lent Programme: Let Us Pray
This will include: Online Discussions, 7.30pm, Tuesday Evenings
* I have various ideas but it depends on the response to the previous sessions Praying Together (online)
Making Space for God 'We mostly spend (our) lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do. Craving, clutching, and fussing, on the material, political, social, emotional, intellectual - even on the religious - plane, we are kept in perpetual unrest: forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in, the fundamental verb, to Be: and that Being, not wanting, having and doing, is the essence of a spiritual life. ...It must mean that some time, even though this may be a very short time, be given, and given definitely, to communion with God; and perseverance in this practice, even though at first we seem to get nothing from it. There are few lives in which there is no pause through the day. We must use even the few minutes that we have in this way, and let the spirit of those few minutes spread through the busy hours.'
With love in Christ,
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