• Here are a number of options to help you with some active or reflective ideas during the period of Lent.

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Lent Thursday Group - 8pm 

• Join us this Lent for a special 5 week Lent course this and every Thursday at 8pm - 

• We will be thinking and reflecting on the nature of God’s love and grace for us and how that helps us offer love and grace to others.  

• Various venues… email Olivia for details and everyone welcome to join us for one or all the session this Lent.

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Lent Books

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•  Why not read a Lent book to help you reflect this Lent? 

• Or for other ideas of Lent resources -

• click here https://www.eden.co.uk/new-lent-resources/ 

• or  here https://www.chpublishing.co.uk/features/lent-resources

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Ideas to do during Lent

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• Here are some different ideas to do during Lent… If the idea of one a day is too much why not pick one or two things to take up or do this Lent?

• 40 ideas for keeping a holy Lent (adapted from Nadia Bolz Weber)

• Day 1: Pray for your enemies

• Day 2: Walk, car share, bike or use the bus instead of your car.

• Day 3: Don’t turn on the radio

• Day 4: Give £20 to a charity of your choosing

• (Sunday)

• Day 5: Take 5 minutes of silence at noon

• Day 6: Look out the window until you find something of beauty you had not noticed before

• Day 7: Give 5 items of clothing to a local Charity shop

• Day 8: Try not to criticise anyone all day

• Day 9: Do a good turn for someone

• Day 10: Buy a few £5 coffee cards to give out to homeless people you encounter

• (Sunday)

• Day 11: Call an old friend

• Day 12: Pray through the Papers (pray for people and situations in today’s news)

• Day 13: Read Psalm 139 http://bible.oremus.org

• Day 14: Pay a few sincere compliments

• Day 15: Pick up 10 bits of litter

• Day 16: Educate yourself about human trafficking www.praxus.org

• (Sunday)

• Day 17: Forgive someone

• Day 18: Have a day off the internet

• Day 19: Change one light in your house to a eco light bulb

• Day 20: Check out morning and evening prayer at http://dailyoffice.wordpress.com

• Day 21: Ask for help

• Day 22: Tell someone what you are grateful for

• (Sunday)

• Day 23: Introduce yourself to a neighbour or invite a neighbour for a coffee

• Day 24: Read Psalm 121 http://bible.oremus.org

• Day 25: Bake a cake and give it to someone

• Day 26: No shopping day

• Day 27: Light a virtual candle http://rejesus.co.uk/spirituality/post_prayer/

• Day 28: Light an actual candle and pray for someone or something in the news

• (Sunday)

• Day 29: Write a thank you note to someone

• Day 30: Buy some Fairtrade products

• Day 31: Put a green heart in your window to share your care for others and our world.

• Day 32: Donate something to the local foodbank

• Day 33: Read John 8:1-11 http://bible.oremus.org

• Day 34: Worship at a friend’s mosque, synogogue or church and look for the beauty

• (Sunday)

• Day 35: Pray for anyone who you find difficult

• Day 36: No sugar day – where else is there sweetness in your life?

• Day 37: Give £20 to a charity that works to help refugees

• Day 38: Educate yourself about a saint www.catholic.org/saints

• Day 39: Invite someone for a meal

• Day 40: Pray for peace

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for kids and families

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• https://flamecreativekids.blogspot.com/p/family-lent-ideas.html

• 40 Lent activities for FAMILIES - click on the document to download the file

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