Lent Course 2017
Thursday afternoons at 2pm,
Finishing by 4pm in the Rectory

Returning Home – Christian
Faith in encounter with Other Faiths.

 

Thursday 9th March – A Journey into the Wilderness.

(please click the link below for pdf  resources week 1)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-1.pdf

Thursday 16th March – The Remembrance of God’s name.

(please click the link below for pdf resources week 2)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-2.pdf

Thursday 23rd March – Fasting.

(please click the link below for pdf resources week 3)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-3.pdf

Thursday 30th March – Greed, Non-attachment and Compassion

(please click on the link below for resources week 4)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-4.pdf

Thursday 6th April – The Crucified Jew.

(please click on the link below for resources week 5)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-5.pdf

The 2017 Len resource explores how Christian faith has been deepened and enriched by encounters with people of different religions. This is not a resource that necessarily emphasises common ground or that is about dialogue, but how Christian faith has burned brightly following an encounter with the religious other. You will find familiar Lenten themes in this material but with, what we hope, is a different approach.
The theologian John Cobb described his deep encounter with Buddhism in terms of a journey to another land and culture: the newness, sometimes strangeness of the other, can be an enriching experience. However when we return to the familiar, home is viewed with different eyes and a deeper, perhaps more profound, appreciation. This is why we have called this resource “Returning Home”
Christians who have lived alongside, and worked with, people of other faiths, often express their surprise and appreciation that their own Christian faith has been enriched by these encounters. How is this the case? Sometimes a practice such as fasting by Muslims in Ramadan has let Christians to think again about the ancient Christian practice of fasting, or the understanding of a concept such as suffering in an Indic faith has prompted Christians to interrogate Christian understanding of redemptive suffering.

Course provided by Churches Together in Britain & Ireland.

World Day of Prayer

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Friday 3rd March 2017

Picture and text taken from  World Day or Prayer website http://www.wdpscotland.org.uk

Rowena “Apol” Laxamana-Sta.Rosa is 32 years old, a full time mother and housewife, and a freelance illustrator. The title of her art piece is A Glimpse of the Philippine Situation. God gave the Philippines abundant resources, both human and material. God is the great provider and provision is for all of creation. This is God’s display of economic justice in contrast to the economy where the strong and powerful take God’s resources for themselves and their families. The kingdom of God provides for all, even for those who do not acknowledge it. The church continues to remind people that all are welcome in the kingdom, as the open long table with food symbolises access to God’s provisions. Jesus said ‘I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.’ (John 10:10)
WDP Scottish Committee – Scottish Charity No: SC 020446

World Day of Prayer is an international, ecumenical, prayer movement initiated and carried out by Christian women in more than 180 countries and over 1000 languages. Every year Christians of many traditions and all ages, celebrate a common day of prayer on the first Friday in March.
World Day of Prayer services are held all around the world, beginning in Tonga and New Zealand in the east and continuing throughout the day to Samoa and Alaska in the west. We bring the needs of the world, and of the writing country in particular, before Almighty God knowing that He will hear and answer us, as we pray in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.
God invites us to have a prayer relationship with Himself, but He also expects us to have concerned relationships with our neighbours, throughout the world. Prayer must be accompanied by action, as God moves our hearts and directs our thoughts.
Friday, 3rd March 2017

The service comes from The Philippines and the theme is:
“Am I being unfair to you?”