Lent and Easter 2025
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Since early days Christians have observed Holy Week, Good Friday and Easter Day with great devotion. Lent lasts for forty days (not including Sundays), it is a time when Christians reflect and prepare for the celebrations of Easter. Some people fast, eat frugally or give up treats following the example of Jesus, who fasted for forty days in the wilderness. Others give to charity, set aside time to study the Bible or to meet together for fellowship.
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Lent 2025
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During lent we are running a benefice lent course using material from Green Christian, “Calling a Wounded Planet Home”, it asks “What kind of people might we need to be to face the challenges of climate change?”. This is a five-week series starting on Wednesday 12th March at 7.30 pm to 9.00 pm in Good Easter village hall and continuing for five consecutive Wednesdays.
If you are not part of one of the existing Home Groups and would like to join in with this study during lent please get in touch.
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Or you can sign up to the Church of England 'Living Hope' lent campaign, see this link
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Lent Lunches every Friday in lent in Good Easter Village Hall. Drop in any time between 12.30 pm and 2 pm where you will be served soup and be able to chat and socialise with others, or simply listen to the conversations. There is no charge for lunch, however if you are able you are welcome to leave a donation for the Bishop of Chelmsford's Lent Appeal.
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Easter Services 2025
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Wednesday 16th April
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Stations of the Cross walk at High Roding, meet at central village car park at 6 pm
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Maundy Thursday 17th April
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7.00 pm Common Worship Holy Communion, Abbess Roding
Good Friday 18th April
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11.00 am Family service, Good Easter
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2.00 pm Hour at the Cross. Beauchamp Roding
Easter Eve Saturday 19th April
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7.30 pm Easter Vigil, High Roding
Easter Sunday 20th April
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6.00 am Sunrise Service, Aythorpe Roding
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9.30 am Easter communion, Margaret Roding
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9.30 am Easter communion, Great Canfield
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11.00 am Easter communion, High Easter
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11.00 am Easter communion, Leaden Roding
Mark Chapter 16
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"When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been saying to one another, ‘Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?’ When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. But he said to them, ‘Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him, just as he told you.’ So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid."