03.02.2016
‘Give Us Grace’ and ‘Cathedral Nights’ – Lent at Christ Church Cathedral
Christ Church Cathedral will be hosting a creative project entitled ‘Give Us Grace’ during Lent 2016. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, February 10, the project will be exploring the Lenten themes of journey, temptation, challenge and reliance on God’s grace through a variety of creative activities and experiential prayer.
Throughout the day on Ash Wednesday, a team of designers led by locally based artist Laura Petit will be preparing a large labyrinth on canvas in one of the cathedral’s side chapels. Visitors to the cathedral that day will be invited to participate in the project as well, and with the direction of the artists will have the opportunity to join in the painting, concluding their work just before the Ash Wednesday service that evening at 6.00 pm. Once the labyrinth creation has fully dried, it will remain installed in the cathedral until Easter for any who would like to walk the labyrinth as an aid to prayer.
Tuesday evenings in Lent will feature ‘Cathedral Nights’, during which the cathedral will be open from 7.00 until 9.30 pm. In this time there will be space for individual prayer, walking the labyrinth, a quiet cup or tea or coffee and also a variety of directed, reflective activities including:
Tuesday February 16 Lectio Divina, meditative reading of scripture – 7.30 and 9.00 pm, led by the Revd Garth Bunting
Tuesday February 23 Look Within – 8.00 and 9.00 pm, contemplative dance meditation created by Maria Nilsson Waller, Lucia Kickham and Dagmara Jerzak. When did you last look inwardly? When in the desert, what do you encounter? What are your temptations, the things that bind you? What voices do you here in the wind?
Tuesday March 1 Taizé prayer service – 7.30 to 8.15 pm
Tuesday March 8 Prayer through creative expression – 7.30 pm and 9.00 pm, led by Carol Casey
Tuesday March 15 Lectio Divina, meditative reading of scripture – 7.30 and 9.00 pm, led by the Revd Garth Bunting
For further information, please contact the Rev. Abigail Sines, abigail@christchurch.ie.