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Lent 2025 - Deepening our faith

The Season of Lent is an important time for all Christians – a time to deepen our relationship with God through prayer, reflection and study, as we prepare for Holy Week and our annual remembering of the Suffering, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

We are offering a number of ways to deepen our faith.

This year our focus will be on Holy Week, and offering an opportunity to explore its meaning through Lent so we can make the most of it when it comes.

This page gives some suggestions to help you make the most of the coming six weeks. But they are only suggestions and you will know your commitments and spiritual needs. With different times and days on offer, we hope that you will be able to come along to something. Whatever you decide to give up or take up, however you choose to observe the season of Lent, we hope that it will be a time of encouragement and blessing, a time that brings you nearer to God.

An offer of Spiritual Support

Alongside this programme of discussion and worship, we want to offer a special opportunity for every adult at St John’s to have a 45 minute conversation with a member of the Ministry Team. We really recommend this to you. Many of us are conscious of our physical health. We have a chance for health check-ups at the GP and we can get fitness tests at the gym. We usually come away reassured, with some sensible advice about what we can do to improve our general health and fitness. As people of faith, our spiritual health and well-being is something we also take seriously, but often we don’t have the chance to think about our faith and prayer life or talk it through with someone.

We’d like to offer you just such a chance this Lent with a relaxed and confidential one-on-one conversation for every adult who wants it. This is a chance for you to talk about whatever you want to discuss in your faith – in total confidence and as a way of being encouraged listened to and supported in your relationship with God, and without any sense that you’re being judged or tested in some way.

Please get in touch with the vicar if you’d like a meeting.

Daily thoughts for the Day

Living Hope is our theme for Lent 2025. In Lent we journey with Jesus on the road to the cross on Good Friday – and beyond, to the transformation of Easter Day.

Living Hope offers us the opportunity deepen our hope in God and think about how our churches can be part of what God is doing to bring hope in the world.

Discover more at cofe.io/LivingHope

Useful Podcasts: Parenting for Faith; Pray as you Go.

Useful Apps: Every Day Faith

Sacrament of Reconciliation

If you would like to receive this Sacrament as part of your Lenten discipline, please speak with Revd Tim to arrange a suitable time.

A Final thought

We hope that whatever you have read has inspired you and that you commit to come to one (or more) of these series in Lent. Whatever you decide is fine – it’s your choice and you know best your needs and diaries. Of course, what is most important of all is that we are fed spiritually, and that through faith, God is at work in each one of us, making us who we are called to be.