Category Archives: Lent

Ash Wednesday at St Mary’s

Ash Wednesday is on 17th February this year and it marks the start of the 40 day season of Lent.

Just like our weekend pattern at the moment, we will have both an online service for those who are shielding and a service in church for those who are able to come in person.

The online service will go out via our YouTube channel at 11.30am and will be available to watch then, or at anytime later:


The evening service will be at 7.30pm in church and all are welcome.

Both services will include a short sermon by the Vicar, The Revd Will Gibbs, as we enter this important season of study, prayer and preparation together for Holy Week and Easter.

Details about this and other opportunities for study and worship in Lent can be found via the homepage.

Lent Course 2021: Holy Habits

Although we are unable to meet together in the usual ways during Lent, The Revd Will Gibbs and The Revd Stuart Dyer warmly invite you to a Lent course via Zoom.

Churches Together in Redbourn are encouraging congregations to use the BRF’s ‘Holy Habits’ resources and are holding weekly evening discussion groups online, based on the Holy Habits materials every Thursday during Lent.

The Zoom group will meet weekly from 25th February to 25th March, and hosting will be shared between Will and Stuart.

The meetings begin on Thursday 25th February at 7.30pm (for about an hour)

If you would like to join this course, please e-mail Will to obtain the Zoom link.

All are welcome – do join us.

What you will need for the All-Age Worship on Good Friday

For those planning to tune in to our All-Age Worship on Good Friday at 10.00am, we would like people to prepare, if at all possible, a few resources to use in the service:

Prepare an Easter tree by either:

  • Cutting some branches from a bush in your garden and put in a large vase
  • Collecting some twigs from your daily walk and arranging in a vase
  • Using a house plant

We will decorate the tree during the service

To make the decorations for the tree: