Resources for your spiritual life

LENT RESOURCES

• COME AND SEE: UNDERSTANDING BAPTISM is the Diocesan Lent course for this year. Find out more and sign up for daily emails and weekly videos on the Diocesan website. This year there are also resources specifically for primary and secondary age children and young people.
• The Living Hope resources from the Church of England
• Pray as you Go weekly meditation
• Book on to a Holy Week Quiet Day at Parmoor (near High Wycombe)
• Lent book recommendations from the Church Times

Other Spiritual Resources

...grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 3:18

We have put together a few resources below that you may find useful to enlarge your spiritual life.

Group meetings for study and prayer please contact administrator@wantageparish.com for details

• Home group: Monday evenings at Andrew & Caroline Haines' home.
• Old Testament study group: Tuesday mornings in people’s homes, co-ordinated by Sheenagh Dernie. 
• Bible Reading Book Club: Tuesdays 5.45 pm in Holy Trinity Church, co-ordinated by James Clarke
• 'Fully Booked' Book Group: Wednesday evenings (monthly) in The Bear Hotel, Wantage Market Place
• There is also a Lent Group meeting on Thursdays at 7.30pm to discuss poetry and psalms. Email curate@wantageparish.com

Personal Discipleship Plan

To engage with the ‘Personal Discipleship Plan’ scheme, and maybe take up the offer of meeting with one of our team of Encouragers, contact Susie at PDP@wantageparish.com if you are interested in this. You can find out more on the Oxford diocese web page. 

Gifts for Everyday Faith can be used on its own, or as the first step in a Personal Discipleship Plan. The answers you provide to the series of simple statements in the document will help you to think through where your gifts are strongest. It's a surprisingly insightful tool! Follow the Gifts for Everyday Faith link to discover your gifts.

Apps

Church of England Everyday Faith App is a daily devotional app from the Church of England designed to inspire, equip and encourage you in your faith every day of the week, not just on Sundays.

‘Pray as you go’ offers daily scripture, led meditation and music through the year, as well as teaching about spiritual practices such as Lectio Divina and the Ignatian Examen. You can opt in to their extra Lent materials as a ‘Lent retreat’. It is available via website and phone app (all free).

Church House Publishing (the official publisher of the Church of England) has various Apps available. Some apps offer a free introductory period followed by a subscription rate which can be read in the T&C's.

Sign up for Daily meditations from Richard Rohr throughout the year via the Centre for Action and Contemplation  

Other resources

The above are just a few examples. There are many more resources, suitable for any time of year, on the Oxford Diocese website: see here for  discipleship and for prayer and scripture.

Confession: Please contact the vicar at vicar@wantageparish.com to arrange this.