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Lent & Easter

Daily Devotions 2026

Each year, Lent, Holy Week and Easter gives opportunity to explore the beauty and mystery of Christ’s life, death and resurrection; a time to assess what is important; a time to explore or deepen one’s faith. Jesus’ own hard road to the Cross is reminder and strength for the hard roads which we, or our loved ones, may also be required to travel. Whether the stories of Easter are familiar, whether you know this church well, or not, we invite you to be part of this significant season, a time of pilgrimage and discovery, leading to the profound celebrations of Easter morning.

Monday 30th March 2026 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9n5Fe5v10E

Tuesday 31st March 2026 – https://youtu.be/V2n3CRCBdbc

Wednesday 1st April 2026 – https://youtu.be/GXwW0hNfhpU

Thursday 2nd April 2026 – https://youtu.be/KYHJt5oXD94

Friday 3rd April 2026 – https://youtu.be/a-5YWysVWjQ

Saturday 4th April 2026 – https://youtu.be/HstxdX5xyH4

Services and Activities for Lent and Easter 2026

Maundy Thursday
Thursday 2nd April 8.00pm Maundy Thursday Holy Communion

Good Friday
Friday 3rd April 11.00am Service for Good Friday

Easter Day
Sunday 5th April 11.00am Easter Morning Holy Communion & Easter crafts

Beyond Easter
Weekly study group, Wednesday, 7.15pm
For five weeks following Easter, change to explore further things of faith

Lent Appeal 2026 – Arukah Network. Registered charity 1162564

https://www.arukahnetwork.org/
The charity was founded by Dr Ted Lankester in 2004, Co-Founder and Custodian, while working and living in the Indian Himalayas. Ted saw the need to bring small organisations together to collaborate effectively and he set up the Cluster approach. Clusters work together to empower communities and local organisations to work together in friendship and collaboration to help solve problems and improve local services and the lives of others. Each Cluster identifies its own priorities and the Arukah Network works alongside them and advises on coaching, training, information, social media, podcasts, blogs etc.
This year’s Lent Appeal – donations will be used for:

  1. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as many people are in desperate need of emergency disaster/survival funds. The Arukah Network already have one Cluster group and are forming a second. The emergency supplies are the basics to help people survive, basic food, shelter, clothing.
  2. Seed Fund: Available to Clusters in any of the countries that the charity works with. Primarily they do the training first and the Cluster can apply for financial help, funding to help people get started e.g. chicken or pig farm.

For donations: a) White Lent Appeal envelopes will be available in the pews (Gift Aid if you are eligible).
b) For any contactless payments on the card machine in Upper Vestibule, please also complete a white Lent Appeal envelope, giving your details (+ gift aid if eligible) and make a note on the envelope that you have made a contactless payment for £…..amount. We can then link the payment specifically to the Lent Appeal.
c) For bank transfers direct to the St. Columba’s Church bank account, please use the payment reference as Lent Appeal. Any cheques sent by post via Church Office, cheque made payable to St. Columba’s Church but please add a note on it saying Lent Appeal.

Prayer for Lent

God of all seasons,
in your pattern of things
there is a time for keeping
and a time for losing,
a time for building up
and a time for pulling down.
In this holy season of Lent,
as we journey with our Lord
to the cross,
help us to discern in our lives
what we must lay down
and what we must take up;
what we must end
and what we must begin.
Give us grace
to lead a disciplined life,
in glad obedience
and with the joy which comes
from a closer walk with Christ.
Amen.

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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.

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!