Lent 2024
Lent is a period of penitential preparation for Easter. It begins on Ash Wednesday, six and a half weeks before Easter, 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.
ASH WEDNESDAY (14th February)
10am Ceremony of Ashes and said Holy Communion
7.30pm Ceremony of Ashes and said Holy Communion
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Saturday 17th February and all Saturday mornings in Lent at 9.30am
Lent Course
Our Lent Course this year is entitled ‘A Beautiful Friendship: A Lent Course based on Casablanca’ by Paul Kerensa. This course will run at St Nicholas Laindon Parish Church on Saturday midday (beginning 17th February) and at Great Burstead Church on Wednesday after our 10.00 am Eucharist (starting Wednesday 21st February). You are welcome to attend either location, and we hope as many of you who can make this course will.
Mothering Sunday
Sunday 10th March
8am Holy Communion
10am Sung Eucharist
Easter 2024
Palm Sunday
Sunday 24th March
8am Holy Communion (BCP)
9.45am Sung Eucharist (Service begins in Church Hall with Liturgy of Palms)
Maundy Thursday
Thursday 28th March
7.30pm Mass of Last Supper and Watch
Good Friday
Friday 29th March
2pm Good Friday Liturgy
Holy Saturday
Saturday 30th March
7.30pm The Easter Vigil
Easter Day
Sunday 31st March
8am Holy Communion (BCP)
10am Sung Eucharist
