Easter Sunday 1st April 6.00am Dawn Service of Light followed by breakfast at St Mary's Church 9.00am Holy Communion at St Mary's Church 9.00am Mass for Easter Day at St Anne’s 10.30am Family Communion at St Mary's Church 11.00am Wendover Free Church service with communion

Please use this booklet to choose what will help you to have a good Lent. We are all different and find different ways to mark

Lent, Holy Week and Easter ....there are lots of choices

here in Wendover.

St Mary's C.E. Church, Wendover St Anne's R. C. Church Wendover Free Church

2018 A 'menu' to help you

observe a good Lent

14th February Making a good start to Lent....

Services: 11.00am Mass with Distribution of Ashes at St Anne's Church

8.00pm Service of Holy Communion with hymns and Imposition of

Ashes at St Mary’s Church.

Churches Together Lent Course based on the film 'The Shack'

Launch TUESDAY 13th FEBRUARY at the Christian Centre 10.00am-12noon Pancakes will be served at the regular coffee morning then the film will be shown in full starting at 12.30pm (it lasts just over 2 hours). Or

7.00-8.00pm Pancakes will be served followed by the film. In the following weeks groups will meet

Monday - 19th Feb, 26th Feb, 5th March, 12th March, 19th March and 26th March Evening 7.30-9.00pm in the Christian Centre

Tuesday - 20th Feb, 27th Feb, 6th March, 13th March, 20th March and 27th March Lunchtime 12.30pm in the Christian Centre - Soup and bread lunch followed by study (1.00-2.30pm) Or

Evenings 7.30-9.00pm at the Manse (21 Manor Road)

Feel free to join whichever session works for you.......

Wednesday 28th March 8.00pm Compline for Holy Week, at St Mary’s Church This is a short sung service to mark the end of the day which can help us to prepare for the next few days .

Maundy Thursday 29th March 7.30pm Agape Supper in the Christian Centre 8.00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper at Our Lady of Lourdes, Bedgrove 8.00pm Sung Eucharist for Maundy Thursday at St Mary's Church Good Friday 30th March 9.00am-4.00pm Prayer stations in St Anne’s Church, based on “The Shack” 10am-12 noon Interactive Stations of the Cross in St Anne’s Hall as part of Churches Together at the foot of the Cross

10.00-11.30am Good Friday Crafts, at Wendover Christian Centre 12.15pm Walk of witness from St Anne's Church to St Marys Church 1.00pm Good Friday service at St Mary’s Church 3.00pm Good Friday Liturgy at Our Lady of Lourdes, Bedgrove Holy Saturday 31st March 12noon-1.00pm An hour of prayer, at St Anne’s Church

What else is happening during Lent........

Fairtrade Fortnight 2018 Monday 26th February - Sunday 11th March

St Mary's services on 4th March will include talks on Fairtrade....

Why not visit the Just shop and get our fairtrade food, cleaning products and much, much more!

Special Event during Fairtrade Fortnight Thursday 1st March Big Brew and Fairtrade tasting event 10.00am-5.00pm at Just, 11 High Street Saturday 10th March Mother's Day crafts 10.00am-12 noon in Wendover Christian Centre.

A opportunity for children of all ages to come and make a gift for their mum. There'll be refreshments available during the morning. Sunday 11th March

Craft activities, worship and food. From 3.30pm at Wendover Christian Centre and St Anne’s Hall.

How can I observe Lent at home?

#LiveLent - Let Your Light Shine is a small book which takes you on a six week discipleship journey in 2018 through the Gospel of John, exploring what it means to be a witness.

For each day from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day there is a short reading, a pause for reflection and prayer, and an idea for a simple action that will enable the light of Jesus to shine through our everyday lives.

There are some copies of the book to buy in church (£2.99) or you can receive the daily reflections by texting Lent to 88802 or following #Live Lent on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, where they will be posted daily. ********************************************************

Walk with Me is a prayer and scripture journey for the season of Lent produced by a Roman Catholic organisation. These daily reflections are written in a simple and accessible style.

JOIN IN PRAYER FOR THE MIDDLE EAST SAT-7 has produced a free 20-page prayer resource to help you and your church pray for Christians across the Middle East and North Africa. Sign up on their website

40acts 40acts is the generosity challenge for Lent, created by UK Christian charity, Stewardship. For seven years, 40acts has asked a question: what if Lent could be about more than just giving stuff up? What if it could be a time of radical generosity as well as spiritual discipline?

Sign up online to receive the daily emails https://40acts.org.uk

Each one will include an act, three different ways you might complete it, and a Bible-based blog created by a Christian writer. In 2018 there are blogs by Ruth Awogbade, Justin Welby, John Sentamu, Adrian Plass, Sam Gibb, Jo Swinney and many more!

Let's try to make a difference in our community

For families there is a lent wallchart which you can download https://40acts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/40-acts-wallchart

-2018.pdf

What could I read during Lent?

Deep, personal, and honest prayer is at the heart of this new Lent Devotional from Luigi Gioia. Chosen as the official Archbishop of Canterbury Lent book for this year, Say it To God is simple message that prayer isn’t about the right techniques, or the right words in the right order. Rather, Luigi Gioia explores the theology and scripture relating to prayer in a series of brief bursts of insight. The ideal guide to bring new life to your prayers.

You can order these from bookshops or online eg www.Eden.co.uk

A followup to ‘The Lent Factor’ which looked at 40 different people who embodied faith through the Lent season, A Place for God follows Graham James as he reflects on 40 different places that inspire faith. Ranging from mountains to WWII bunkers to Opera Houses to his very own flat, Graham James uses each location to show how the places around us, both near and far, can influence us in discovering the divine.

As much a celebration of God-given creativity as it is a unique path towards deep spiritual and personal truths. In The Art of Lent Sister Wendy looks at a different painting each day, and draws from it rich personal and theological truths that help you not only in thinking differently about Lent, but also equips you to embark on your own path of reading art with a more discerning, and insightful, eye.