Posts tagged Lent

Hidden Secrets: Lent 4 All Age group.

Monday 19 March 2012

Following our slightly confusing pattern of alternating between separate, Friday and All age Sunday groups for Lent, this Sunday found us in St Agnes hall for lunch and study before Mass. The theme for this week looked at penitence and reconciliation, with the gospel being Jesus’ talk to Nicodemus and the Eucharistic reflection focusing on […]

Cleansing the temple and breaking the Word: Lent 3 with the adults.

Tuesday 13 March 2012

All the things used in the children’s session were left out for the adults to try and work out what the children did. There were some inventive ideas! We began with a prayer, based on the Lord’s Prayer: Father God, Source of life and Love, whose name is more beautiful and full of meaning than […]

Signs, temples, pop-ups and seeds: Lent 3.

Saturday 10 March 2012

On Friday we had our third Lent group. We had a split session, children first and adults later on. This post reports on the children’s session. We began the session with a prayer and then watched the scene from ‘The Miracle Maker’ which shows the ‘cleansing of the temple’, the gospel for this Sunday. The […]

Transfiguration and Communion: Lent 2.

Thursday 8 March 2012

Sunday lunchtime saw some of our group meeting at Karlie and Kevin’s for lunch and Lent group. This was an all age session. In the first half we concentrated on the Gospel for Lent 2, Mark’s account of the Transfiguration. We started by looking at a range of artwork, some traditional, some modern, which portrayed […]

Meditation from Lent Group 1.

Saturday 3 March 2012

Here is one of the meditations for adults using the Lent materials. You may want to read the reflection on temptation from week 1 of ‘Communion with Christ’ Sit so you are comfortable and alert. Take time to come to stillness. Take some deep breaths and as you do so become aware that God is with […]

Who will I be?: Lent group 1.

Monday 27 February 2012

With most of the group off on Pilgrimage in Rome, the families all gathered for the first of our Lent groups. During Lent we are having some all age sessions and some sessions with a children’s group followed by an adults group. We are again basing the content on the Arundel and Brighton Lent materials, […]