Metanoia: Let your mind be renewed

Do come and join us for one or more of the special Lent services that will be held on Wednesday evenings at 7:30pm in six churches in the locality. It is the opportunity to come together with people from other parishes to take time out of a busy week and reflect on the season. 

Lent is a period of preparation for Easter beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending at sunset on the day before Easter Sunday. It gives us 40 days to express sorrow at the wrong things we have done and provides for a 40-day fast (Sundays are excluded), in imitation of Jesus Christ's fasting in the wilderness before he began his public ministry.

The dates are:

22nd February (Ash Wednesday) at Marton Church 

During the service, the minister places the ashes on a worshipper's forehead in the shape of a cross. The ceremony shows that a person belongs to Jesus Christ, and it also represents a person's grief and mourning for their sins — the same sins that Christians believe Jesus Christ gave his life for when he died on the cross.

1st March Evensong at Eaton

8th March Evensong - Birtles

15th March Evensong at Siddington

22nd March Evensong - Hulme Walfield

29th March Holy Communion at Swettenham

After each service, Lenten refreshments will be served.