tonight is the annual service of 'ashing' on ash wednesday. the photo on the left is thanks to moot...
our service will be held tonight, 8pm at st. gabriel's church, havant road, walthamstow. i will lead what will be a fairly straight and traditional service.
and so begins the period of lent - the 40 day journey with christ toward his passion at the cross, and the hope of life fuelled by the resurrection at easter.
there's a great little lenten resource that the boss showed us at staff meeting on monday. its a booklet called love life, live lent and is full of 50 suggestions of things to do that fit into 6 themes: personal, friends, neighbour, church, community, world. the booklets are produced by the birmingham diocese - see the link here.
essentially its about using lent to be generous to yourself, your neighbours, and the world, rather than being stingy with yourself in the ways that are usually thought of around lent - y'know, giving up chocolate, alcohol, telly, etc.
also check out what some of the links on the right hand side are doing for lent, like jonny baker, maggi dawn, moot for instance.
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This is my first attempt at responding - hope you receive it!
Happy Ash Wednesday.
I turned uo tonight at St Mary's for "Soul Space" almost sure you would not be there as you indicated you would be elsewhere - but I wanted to start Lent with the symbolism of the "Closed Tomb"
well done lawrence!
soul space will be back in its usual form next week.
might see you then eh?
hope you're well mate.
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