Lent, Holy Week and Easter

Lent

We are very aware that lockdown (plus continuing winter weather) has felt to many of us like a “Long Lent” already! As a result the Abbey is deliberately focusing on a positive Lenten message for 2021, of our Christian calling to be a People of Hope. Our sermon themes and study groups will follow the excellent “Shining as Lights” course prepared by the Diocese of Sheffield. Our Rector, Guy, Revd Chantal and Revd Stephen look forward to exploring with you what it means to be a beacon of light in our families, neighbourhood, at the Abbey and across this city!

Lent Course

This will be a five week course taking place on Zoom on Wednesday mornings from 10.30 – 11.45am. Everyone is welcome.

• Session 1: Wednesday 24^th February
• Session 2: Wednesday 3^rd March
• Session 3: Wednesday 10^th March
• Session 4: Wednesday 17^th March
• Session 5: Wednesday 24^th March

For personal reading, alongside the Abbey study course, there are an excellent crop of new Lent devotional books is available. Two you may like to consider are: Hannah Steele “Living His Story : Revealing the extraordinary love of God in ordinary ways” (the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book for 2021); and “ Thy Will Be Done” (an inspiring study of the Lord’s Prayer) by Stephen Cherry, Dean of King’s College Cambridge.

If you would like to take part, please email Revd Chantal Mason for the Zoom login details: [email protected].

Lent Sermon Series:

While we're in lockdown, you can watch our Lent Sermons during the 10.15am Sunday service via our Church Online page.

1. Sunday 28^th February – Here to be light (John 8:12, Mtt 5:14)
2. Sunday 7^th March – Leaning into the light (Isaiah 60:1-3, 19-20)
3. Sunday 14^th March – Seeing well (Psalm 119:105)
4. Sunday 21st March – Light for the nations (Isaiah 49:6)
5. Sunday 28^th March (Palm Sunday) – Light up the darkness (2 Cor 4:6)
6. Sunday 4^th April – EASTER DAY – The light of the World