Lent and Easter 2022
Echoing Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness, the season of Lent is time set aside to prepare and deepen us for the eventual embrace and celebration of Easter. Lent is the opportunity to enter profoundly into the mystery of Christ’s life, death and resurrection; a time to reassess what is important; a time to consider what Christ means to us now. Jesus’ hard road to the Cross is offered as reminder, strength, and challenge for the hard roads which we, or our loved ones, may need to travel. Whatever your tradition of prayer (or none), familiar, or not, with St Columba’s or the Church of Scotland, we hope you will discover something to inspire you, encourage you, and help you to pray – resourced, resilient, and rejoicing for the pilgrim road ahead.
Ways to travel:
Holy Week Services
Thursday 14th April, 8p.m. Maundy Thursday Holy Communion
Friday 15th April, 11a.m. Service of Readings & Music for Good Friday
Sunday 17th April, 11a.m. Easter Morning Holy Communion
Prayer for the Journey to Easter
In this holy season of Lent,
may the mind of Christ be in us.
Enable us both to examine our conscience
and to inform it;
both to examine our faith
and to deepen it;
and to watch and pray,
as Christ would have us do,
so that we recognise temptation
and spurn it. Amen.
(From Common Worship)