In the Footsteps of Christ
Lent & Holy Week in the
Dorchester Team Lent Lent Lunches A time for the sharing of food and fellowship; donations will be taken at the lunches for charity. Please see Pews Sheet for details of times and venues Days: Wednesday (Wittenhams); Thursday (Berinsfield and Warborough); Friday (Dorchester)
Lent Groups From the Pilgrim series of study guides we will be reflecting on The Eucharist and finding out why The Eucharist is celebrated as a memorial of Christ’s saving passion and stands at the very heart of Christian worship. Please see Pews Sheet for details of times and venues Monday evening: Dorchester; Thursday afternoon :Berinsfield; also Warborough
Compline Also known as ’Night Prayer’ this short said service gives the opportunity to reflect upon and offer up our daily lives to God Wednesday: Drayton St Leonard 8.45pm
Taize Group Monday 9th & 23rd March 7.30pm Abbey Guest House An opportunity to pray using chants and prayers from Taize. We will enjoy learning simple chants and praying together. This group is for everyone, those who cannot read music through to experienced musicians.
Journey to the Cross and Beyond The Journey to the Cross is a service of reflection and prayer using images created by the Sisters of Turvey Abbey . The service has its roots in the tradition of the Stations of the Cross and the practice of meditative prayer. Each week we will reflect on successive stages of Jesus’ final journey and our own experience of death and resurrection in the daily situations of our lives. Sunday 1st March at Drayton St Leonard 6pm Sunday 8th March at Toot Baldon 6pm Sunday 15th March at Long Wittenham 6pm
Sunday 29th March at Berinsfield 6pm
Holy Week
Palm Sunday Dorchester Abbey: Service of music and reflection for Palm Sunday 6pm
Monday
Dorchester Abbey: Morning Prayer 8.15am Warborough: Morning Prayer 8.15am
Berinsfield: Service for Healing and Reconciliation 7.30pm Chiselhampton: Compline 8pm Dorchester Abbey: Compline with Reflection 8.15pm
Tuesday Dorchester Abbey: Morning Prayer 8.15am Stadhampton: Morning Prayer 8.15am
Toot Baldon: service of Tenebrae 7.30pm Warborough: Compline 8pm Dorchester Abbey: Compline with Reflection 8.15pm
Wednesday Dorchester Abbey: Morning Prayer 8.15am Chiselhampton: Morning Prayer 8.15am
Stadhampton: Compline 8pm Drayton St Leonard: Compline with reflections 8pm Dorchester Abbey: Compline with Reflection 8.15pm
Maundy Thursday Dorchester Abbey: Morning Prayer 8.15am Warborough: Morning Prayer 8.15am
Agape service in Dorchester Abbey 6.30pm
Good Friday Dorchester Abbey: Morning Prayer 8.15am Stadhampton: Morning prayer with hymn 9am Long Wittenham: Devotion Service, 9.30am Marsh Baldon: Good Friday reflections, 10am
Warborough: Service of prayer and meditation, 12 noon Reflections for Good Friday in Dorchester Abbey, 12noon – 3pm
Holy Saturday Vigil for young people in the Abbey Guest House ending with a Dawn Service for Easter on Wittenham Clumps