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Ideas for Lent

  • 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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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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