• 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 (22nd Feb) and every Thursday at 8 entitled ‘Alive in Christ’ ( 22 and 29 February, 7, 14, 21 March).

• 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? The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent book for this year is ’Tarry Awhile’ by Selina Stone looking at the spiritual practice of waiting on God.

• 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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