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Services and Calendar |
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St Nicholas Church, Thames Ditton |
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Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent and occurs forty-six days before Easter. It falls on a different date each year, being dependent on the date of Easter. Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of the faithful as a sign of repentance. The ashes used are gathered after the Palm Crosses from the previous year's Palm Sunday are burned.
Lent is season of fasting and prayer before Easter. The forty days represent the time Jesus spent in the desert, where he endured temptation by Satan. The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer—through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial—for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, culminating in Easter. Lent is marked by fasting, both from foods and festivities, and by other acts of penance. Today, some people give up a vice of theirs, add something that will bring them closer to God, and often give the time or money spent doing that to charitable purposes or organizations. If you have resolved to give up, say, chocolate, you may be relieved to know that some people consider that technically the Sundays between Ash Wednesday and Easter are not Lent days and therefore you might feel able to have chocolate on Sunday. However many, in all conscience, don’t make use of this cop-out and others think it less painful to give up altogether during lent! |
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This week’s Sunday services are
Sunday February 26, First Sunday in Lent
8.00 a.m. Holy Communion 10.00 a.m. Parish Communion 6.30 p.m. Evening Prayer
Set out at the bottom of this page is the normal regular pattern of service but please check out actual scheduled mid-week and other services, and other events in the Google Calendar below. The tab “Parish News and Events has more information on events. Any comments on the calendar, please email calendar@stnicholaschurch.org.uk |
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Normal schedule of Services Sunday Services Regular services are: 8.00am Holy Communion quiet traditional service (1662 BCP*) 10.00am Parish Communion– see below for variations Morning Prayer, CW* Crèche available and children's groups 6.30pm Evening Service said evensong (1662 BCP*) Variations: 1st Sunday of the month: 10.00 am Morning Service is a Family service 11.15 Matins 6.30 p.m. Parish Communion – CW* 3rd Sunday of the month: 6.30 p.m. Choral Evensong 5th Sunday of the month: 6.30 p.m. Songs of Praise
Plus: please check the coming week's notices above for further variations or special events Please note that during the 10:00am Parish Communion Service, children who would not enjoy staying for the whole service are invited to attend Crèche or Sunday School in the Church Hall.
Mid-Week Services Tuesday, 10:30am Prayers for Healing Wednesday, 11:00am Holy Communion (BCP*)
*BCP: The Book of Common Prayer from 1662 as amended in 1928
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