Parish News: The 1st Sunday and Week of Lent

Jesus experienced everything that we do – except sin – and that includes temptation. For all of us there are those moments when we have a choice and we don’t always make the right one. In this holy season we are asked to consider more closely what we do and say so that we may do more and more the will of God. 

St Benet’s is self supporting: we receive no regular central church or government funding, so you can donate using card online to support St Benet’s: and every penny really does count! You can also donate by cash or card in person, by texting BENET followed by your donation amount to 70450 to give that amount. Or why not set up a regular standing order with your bank?

The readings for this Sunday are available here.

Please pray for:
The sick and those in need
Brenda, Reece, Victoria, John, Chinye and Cheryl.

The Faithful departed
The recently departed all who have worshipped in and served at Saint Benet’s, whose who have died recently, amongst them Niké and those whose year’s mind falls about this time.

Stations of the Cross will be prayed every Friday in Lent at 6.30pm, beginning on Friday 7th March. In this devotion we walk around the church following Jesus from his condemnation to his burial. It lasts about 30 minutes and is an excellent way to deepen your life of prayer during this holy season.

I believe in one God; our Lent learning course will be on the Creed which we say at mass each week. It was agreed at the Council of Nicaea in the year 325 and so this year is the 1700th anniversary. Every Monday of Lent at 7pm, beginning on Monday 10th of March.

Our parish pilgrimage to Walsingham (joint with Old St Pancras) will be from Friday 13th June to Sunday 15th June. Booking forms are now available. The total cost will be £271 for an adult, and £200 for a child, all inclusive.

The cover art is The Temptation of Christ by the Devil, by Félix Joseph Barrias, 1860 held in the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma.