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Live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Phil 1:27

Contents
	The Lenten Study Series:  Experiencing the Bible Again for the First Time Sunday Bible Study The Sacrament of Reconciliation Fasting & Almsgiving Reading and Meditating on the Word of God Prayer and Meditation What to Give up for Lent 2009 Ash Wednesday and Holy Week Services Lent and Easter Art

  The Lenten Study Series:  Experiencing the Bible Again for the First Time

Each session will be preceded by a celebration of Holy Communion at 7:00 pm.

Schedule of Sessions

  Sunday Bible Study

  The Sacrament of Reconciliation

The Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) is offered to anyone who has spiritual conflict in their lives, and feel a need to seek counsel and advice, and ask for God's forgiveness.  The clergy are available to meet with you, and pray with you.

  Fasting & Almsgiving

Especially during the season of Lent, Anglicans are strongly urged to practice the spiritual discipline of fasting, and give up a meaningful habit or pleasure that we enjoy (often related to food, but not necessarily so).  Fasting has been observed by Christians from earliest times.  Jesus himself practiced fasting.  For the Christian, the purpose of fasting is the positive effect achieved through self-denial.  It is an act of humbling oneself before God in order that there might be closer communion with our Creator.  Fasting disrupts the process of "going our own way and doing our own thing" and restores us to a reliance upon God.  Each pang of hunger is a reminder that because we love God, we are doing something we don't have to do; thus each gentle reminder of our self-denial is an opportunity for prayer.

If, during Lent, you should decide to give up your daily trip to Tim Horton's, you are also encouraged to offer whatever money you would normally spend there to the church or your favourite charity.

Lenten coin boxes and coin cards are now available and can be found in the Narthex and on the table outside the Church office.  Please consider this as a Lenten denial project and pick your card or box up after the service.

  Reading and Meditating on the Word of God

Some people don't want to give up things for Lent.  If you are one of them, you might decide to undertake a new spiritual activity.

Here are some suggestions:

• Make a resolution to read the Bible daily. 
  We shall print suggestions for your devotional readings in the Sunday Bulletin each week.
• Attending our Sunday Bible Study each week. 
  We gather in the Britton Room from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. to study the readings of the day.

  Prayer and Meditation

The Church encourages us to make time in each day to develop our prayer life.  You may consider some of the following suggestions:

• Make a special time in your day to have quiet prayer time.  This may mean arising early each morning, or finding a quiet place to pray and meditate.  The church is open daily from 8:30 am to Noon for those who are able to come to pray.

• Attending daily morning prayer at St. Jude's.  Each weekday morning (except Friday) a group gathers in the church for daily Morning Prayer.  We begin at 9:15 a.m. and end around 9:30 a.m.

• Make a commitment to attend worship throughout Lent, and especially Holy Week.

  What to Give up for Lent

• Give up watching television one evening a week.  Visit some lonely or sick person instead.
• Give up looking at other people's weak and negative points.  Concentrate on their strong points and positive attributes.
• Give up speaking unkindly.  Let your speech be generous and understanding.
• Give up your worries.  Trust God with your problems and frustrations.
• Give up hatred or dislike of anyone.  Learn to love instead.
• Give up fears which prevent Christian witness.  Seek courage to speak about your faith to others.
• Give up spending so much time with newspapers and magazines.  Use some of that time to study your Bible.
• Give up grumbling.  Learn to give thanks in everything.
• Give up ten to fifteen minutes each day.  Use that time in prayer.
• Give up buying anything but essentials for yourself.  Give that money to God's work or someone in need.
• Give up judging by appearance and by the standards of the world.
• Learn to give up yourself to God.

  2009 Ash Wednesday and Holy Week Services

updated Mar. 30, 2009

Feb 25 Ash Wednesday	You are dust and to dust you shall return. Genesis 3.19 7:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist with the imposition of ashes marks the beginning of Lent.
April 5 Palm Sunday	8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Blessing & Distribution of Palms 9:00 a.m. Bible Study (in the Britton Room) 10:30 a.m. Blessing & Distribution of Palms,  Procession, and Holy Eucharist.
April 6 Monday in Holy Week	9:15 a.m. Morning Prayer 7:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross
April 7 Tuesday in Holy Week	9:15 a.m. Morning Prayer 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist (at the Wexford Seniors Residence) 7:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross
April 8 Wednesday in Holy Week	9:15 a.m. Morning Prayer 7:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross
April 9 Maundy Thursday	9:15 a.m. Morning Prayer 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist 7:30 p.m. Foot-washing, Solemnity of the Last Supper, Stripping of the Altar 9:00 p.m. to Midnight Vigil at the Altar of Repose
April 10 Good Friday	10:00 a.m. Children's Good Friday Program 12:00 noon Stations of the Cross 1:00 p.m. The Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday
April 11 Holy Saturday	8:00 p.m. The Great Easter Vigil
April 12 Easter Sunday	8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist 9:45 a.m. Morning Prayer 10:30 a.m. Procession and Solemn Eucharist

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