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Spreading Love & Hope...
Greetings. These Lenten resources have been gathered for your use at home as we continue in physical social distancing and virtual social connection. May the shared words and music help you stay connected to God and the wider community.
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During the Lenten season, join in our weekly Lent Study Group on Tuesday afternoons and our weekly Lent Communion Service on Wednesday afternoons. Here's the Zoom link for both gatherings (same each week): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89190316526
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May your journey through Lent be a time of discernment for you -- of joys, challenges. Lent offers each of us a sacred time in which to discover areas of excess and enough, and to identify places to cut back and opportunities to step forward. Thanks to Leslie for the photos from her walk in Broad Chalke.
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Journey through Lent
Through the Eyes of Mark, for weekly fellowship & a study of Mark’s Gospel
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Wednesday Communion service
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To keep things simple, we’ll use the same Zoom link, our regular Sunday morning link, for all Lent events. More detailed information for each activity is available on the Salisbury URC website at https://salisburyurc.co.uk/
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'This is my body: 2021 words for communion'
by Jim Burklo
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‘This is my body…’
This is the body of Christ.
This body knows what it is like to long for a hug, but not be able to get one when it needs it the most.
This body knows how to feel a hug through a window or a screen.
This body knows what it is like to be afraid.
This body knows what it is like to be loved out of its fear.
This body knows what it is like to be hungry, but not able to go to the store to get food.
This body knows the sadness of having enough food but feeling the hunger of others.
This body feels helpless in the face of injustice.
This body is energized for activism to change the unjust structures of society.
This body knows what it is like to lose its job when it needs it the most.
This body knows what it is like to work in a hospital without enough protection.
This body knows what it is like to be alone in a hospital bed, unable to have visitors.
This body knows the joy of getting a phone call from – anybody.
This body knows what it is like to wake up in the middle of the night, worrying.
This body knows what it is like to fall back asleep and dream sweetly, oblivious to the cares of the world.
This body knows life in all its sorrow and pleasure, fulness and emptiness, eagerness and trepidation.
This is your body.
This is the body of Christ.
Take, and eat….
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Musical Inspiration
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Remembering Chris Barber
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Jazz trombonist who died 3 March
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A Closer Walk with Thee...
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Chant - something different
Words by Fr James; Music by Father Paul
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I have come to your refuge, to your shelter;
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you are the Lord and I am your servant
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You might accompany this chant with movement on your Finger Labyrinth.
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Patient dawn
by Sam Goodman
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The next time it gets light
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And tonight as it gets dark
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The next time it grows light
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The next time morning comes
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The next time it grows dark
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The darkness does not extinguish
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The next time I am afraid
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The next time darkness comes
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That light is simply waiting
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The next time morning comes
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That your love lifts light
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LENT
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Praying for justice, peace and healing for our world this Season of Lent.
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Our church children have challenged us to change our behaviours to better care for our world. What will you give up or take on for Lent that impacts the future of this planet?
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Andover & Salisbury congregations
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of the United Reformed Church gather on Zoom for united worship service.
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