Lent and Easter 2022 at St Columba’s

Journey to Easter

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:

Pastoral Mailing

Looking back at meditations offered in the early months of the pandemic in 2020, there was a search for what this experience might be revealing – what, if anything, we might be learning?

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Lent Appeal 2022

This year’s chosen charity, Collaboration à la Santé Publique Burkina Faso (CSPB) is a small French charity created in 2012, providing much needed family planning and other related medical services in the Northern Region of Burkina Faso. To donate, cheques payable to St Columba’s Church of Scotland (Lent Appeal)

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“The Nail” & Colston Milton Film Meditations

Reminding us of valued congregational links and the wider work of the Church of Scotland, short film meditations from Rev Christopher Rowe, minister of Colston Milton Parish Church, Glasgow - accompaniment to The Nail, by Archbishop Stephen Cottrell, our Lent Book Study. (To join Lent Book discussions contact church office.)

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Carnival of the Animals

Specially created for our young people, a weekly picture & reflection from Rev David Donald Scott. (More from David at daviddonaldscott.com/blogonthelearig/)

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Weekly Scripture, Prayer & Music for Lent

Prepared by members of the congregation; a gospel reading, resources for prayer and music from the choir.

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Sunday Morning Worship

Via our Live Stream and Dial-In. Contact church office for further details and current guidance for attendance at worship, in person.

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Holy Week Services

Thursday 14^th April, 8p.m. Maundy Thursday Holy Communion
Friday 15^th April, 11a.m. Service of Readings & Music for Good Friday
Sunday 17^th 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)

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Monday to Friday.

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St Columba’s is located on Pont Street in Knightsbridge in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Church is within easy reach of three London Underground stations – Knightsbridge (Piccadilly Line), South Kensington (Piccadilly, Circle and District Lines) and Sloane Square (Circle and District Lines).

	St. Columba's Pont Street London SW1X 0BD
	+44 (0)20-7584-2321
	office@stcolumbas.org.uk

Getting here by tube

Knightsbridge Station

Take the Harrods exit if open (front car if coming from the East, rear car if coming from the West). Come up the stairs to street level, carry on keeping Harrods on your right. Turn right into Basil Street. Carry straight on into Walton Place with St Saviour’s Church on your left. At the traffic lights, St Columba’s is to your left across the street. If the Harrods exit is closed, take the Sloane Street exit, turn right into Basil Street. Carry straight on past Harrods with the shop on your right, into Walton Place as before.

South Kensington Station

Come up the stairs out of the station and turn left into the shopping arcade. Turn left again into Pelham Street. At the traffic lights at the end of Pelham Street cross Brompton Road, turn left then immediately right into the narrow street of Draycott Avenue. After just a few yards turn left into Walton Street. Carry on walking up Walton Street until the traffic lights at the corner of Pont Street. Turn right and after a few steps you will be at St Columba’s!

Sloane Square Station

Cross over the square into Sloane Street. Walk along Sloane Street until the traffic lights at the corner of Pont Street. Turn left into Pont Street. St Columba’s will then be in sight.