First Sunday in Lent
8.00 am. Holy Communion
11.00 am. Matins – Psalm 32, prayer book page 382
Hymns: 95, 385, 416, 538.
Next Sunday, 1st March – Second Sunday of Lent – 11.00 am. Family Communion
A Messy Vintage Service – a service for older people and those with dementia and special needs, and their carers, will be held at Holy Trinity Church, Malvern Link, on Thursday 5th March at 2.00 pm. The theme will be ‘Celebrating Springtime.’ Parking available directly outside the church door. Light Refreshments will be served.
World Day of Prayer – Friday 6th March. This year’s theme is prepared by Christian women from Nigeria – ‘I will give you rest; come!” Services at Lansdown Methodist Church at 2.00 pm and 7.00 pm. A cash collection will be taken. Pauline Cross is the Chairperson of the Malvern WDP committee, and would be pleased to give you more information, and to have your support on the day.
On Sunday 22nd March, at Little Malvern Priory, there will be a rendering of the Passion Cantata ‘Sacrifice Triumphant’, music by Basil Harwood (1859-1949). The music is interspersed with readings from the bible and congregational hymns. This act of worship will be a fitting way of marking our entry into Passiontide and Holy Week.
A Lenten thought from Thomas Merton (1915-1968) – ‘The Wisdom of the Desert’:
Abbot Pastor said that Abbot John the Dwarf had prayed to the Lord, and the Lord had taken away all his passions, so that he became impossible. And in this condition he went to one of the elders and said, ‘You see before you a man who is completely at rest and has no more temptations.’ The elder said, “Go and pray to the Lord to command some struggles to be stirred up in you, for the soul is matured only in battles. And when the temptations started up again he did not pray that the struggle be taken away from him, but only said, “Lord, give me strength to get through the fight.”