Posted in Faith, tagged Lent, Maggie Dawn on 5 February 2008 | No Comments »
Maggie Dawn has a great post about ‘Giving it up’ for Lent. Here’s a great quote from here,
It’s a common misconception that Lent is about self-improvement. Somehow a half-remembered custom of giving things up has been mixed in with our society’s obsession with self-help and self-improvement, so that we’ve blurred the true meaning of [...]
Posted in Faith, tagged Church of England, Lent, Wanabepriest on 23 February 2007 | No Comments »
Wanabepriest has set up a blog to follow his Lent experience using the Church of England Love Life Live Lent site that offers subscribers* daily txt message ideas throught Lent.
Here’s a quote from day 3,
When I go home, I can sit in our spare room which doubles as my study but there is the intermittent [...]
Posted in Faith, tagged Ash Wednesday, Easter, Holy Trinity Coventry, Ian Birkinshaw, Jeremy Fletcher, Lent, St Michael le Belfrey, York Minster on 21 February 2007 | No Comments »
Today is Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of Lent.
I’ll be nipping over to York Minster or St Mikes Church at some point this morning to take part in one of the special services for this day. During the service each person has a cross marked on their forehead in black ash as a [...]
Posted in Faith, tagged Easter, Lent on 20 February 2007 | No Comments »
Today is Shrove Tuesday, also known a Mardi Gras (literally ‘Fat Tuesday’) and referred to by most as Pancake Day. Tomorrow starts the beginning of Lent.
In a modern world one of the problems of Easter and Lent has nothing to do with the religious concepts involved but rather the setting of the date itself.
The definition [...]
Posted in Faith, tagged Lent on 30 January 2007 | No Comments »
The Alt Valley Churches Justice and Peace Group and Asylum Link Merseyside are inviting people in Merseyside to give up their clothes for Lent! …
… to be clear, the request of for donations of clothing for Asylum seekers in need.
[Source: John Davies' blog]
Posted in Faith, tagged Church of England, Lent on 21 January 2007 | No Comments »
The Church of England has a new website www.livelent.net to promote a txt message scheme during Lent. The idea is that you subscribe by texting LENT to 64343* and you will get 50 (not sure why this is 50 not 40) Lent related text messages.
There is a resources section on the website with some downloads [...]
Posted in Faith, tagged Lent, Prayer, York on 18 January 2007 | No Comments »
The guide itself is excellent and is a customised York edition of a tested format written by David Hill of There is Hope in Hull. The activities in York are being coordinated by One Voice York.
You can get the guide for £2.50 from churches in York and there is also a launch evening on:
Thursday 15 [...]
Posted in Faith, tagged Lent, Sandwitches on 20 March 2006 | No Comments »
I’ve recently discovered Mr Sandwich - a new sandwich shop in the Shambles (http://www.yorkshambles.com/) York where all of the sandwiches cost just £1. More interestingly the fillings menu is listed by numbers (just like a Chinese take-away) and the shop has a little sign in the windows asking for people to order by number.
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