This Wednesday is a new season. It's called Lent and for near enough to 2000 years Christians have used it as a time of prayerful self examination as the anniversary of Jesus death and resurrection draws near. Fasting with Prayer has always been a powerful feature of this season.
This morning I called the Parish to Pray and Fast - maybe just one meal - this Wednesday, and at times through Lent. You are invited too. However please don't read that as a heavy. No one's going to be checking up on you, and you may not be able to anyway.
I believe we need to pray for a hunger for God to grow and develop 1stly in our selves, 2ndly in the church, and 3rdly in Marlborough. This Wednesday (Ash Wednesday) will finish in the evening in Nativity Church at 7.30pm, with the short half hour service of the Imposition of Ashes.
Bring along your palm crosses from previous years if you have them still. And if you want to hear (or re-hear) my sermon on fasting it will hopefully be up on our website by 4pm Monday.
May God bless you this Lent season.
This morning I called the Parish to Pray and Fast - maybe just one meal - this Wednesday, and at times through Lent. You are invited too. However please don't read that as a heavy. No one's going to be checking up on you, and you may not be able to anyway.
I believe we need to pray for a hunger for God to grow and develop 1stly in our selves, 2ndly in the church, and 3rdly in Marlborough. This Wednesday (Ash Wednesday) will finish in the evening in Nativity Church at 7.30pm, with the short half hour service of the Imposition of Ashes.
Bring along your palm crosses from previous years if you have them still. And if you want to hear (or re-hear) my sermon on fasting it will hopefully be up on our website by 4pm Monday.
May God bless you this Lent season.
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