LENT 2025 AT ST JOHN’S

ASH WEDNESDAY – 5 March

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. On this day we will receive ashes on our foreheads during Mass as a sign of our penitence.

Mass will be offered at 12.30pm and 6.00pm that day.

LENT GROUP

This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and the Nicene Creed which we recite at Mass each Sunday as a proclamation of our faith. During Lent this year we will use a course developed by the Society exploring key elements of the Creed.

We will gather:

in person in the hall on Wednesdays 12, 19, 26 March and 2, 9 April after the Mass

on Zoom on Thursday evenings 13, 20, 27 March and 3, 10 April at 7.30pm.

LENT BOXES

Part of our Lenten discipline is to support charitable giving. As part of this discipline, you might like to support one of the two charities that the parish supports by taking their Lent boxes and collecting change in them.

The Additional Curates Society supports the nurture of vocations to the priesthood, and helps fund posts for clergy in deprived parishes.

The Friends of the Holy Land supports a variety of Christian educational and medical charities in the Holy Land. At this time there is a great need for their work, particularly in Gaza and the West Bank.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS

During Lent we will offer the chance to walk the Stations of the Cross each Saturday at 11.00am. This simple, prayerful devotion is a way of entering into the mystery of Our Lord’s death for us. Do join us for this as part of our shared Lenten devotion.