Lent 2025

Lent began with our Ash Wednesday Communion Service on 5 March at 7.30pm in church.

This lovely service included the opportunity to be signed with the cross in ash, as we began this season of reflection.

Lent Sermon Series

This Lent we are looking at the practice of Solitude as part of our long-term teaching series, Practicing the Way, where we learn habits to help us become more like Jesus, and create our own Rule of Life

We will be looking at it under the following individual sermons

Introducing Solitude
The Quiet Place
Encounter with self
Encounter with enemy
Encounter with God

Read more about the practice of Solitude here

Lent Reading

This year’s recommended Lent reading is “An Invitation to Solitude and Silence – Experiencing God’s Transforming Presence” by Ruth Haley Barton (ISBN-13: 9780281085781, 9780281085989)

Ruth also has a podcast on leadership, and in Season 5 she focused on this book. The first episode of that series can be found on Spotify here or on Apple podcasts here

Other Reading

If you haven’t read it it, we also recommend last year’s Lent reading “Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Live as he did: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did“ by John Mark Comer This book complements not only our Lent sermon series on Solitude but other spiritual practices that we are looking at as part of the Rule of Life

Also available are Daily Lent Reflections from the Church of England. Head to the Church of England website to sign-up for daily emails or purchase a booklet. Or you can access all the content on the Everyday Faith App