This year’s World Day of Prayer is on Friday 3rd March. There will be a service at St Stephen’s welcoming people from across Canterbury at 11.00am, followed by a soup lunch in the church hall. It would be lovely to have a good number from St Stephen’s joining us if you’re able to.
For Lent 2022 we are planning Deanery wide groups to enable us to come together and explore the resources provided by the national church.
Living in Love and Faith sets out to inspire people to think more deeply both about what it means to be human, and to live in love and faith with one another.
It tackles the tough questions and the divisions among Christians about what it means to be holy in a society in which understandings and practices of gender, sexuality and marriage continue to change.
The material includes encounters with real, contemporary disciples of Christ whose stories raise questions which ask us to discern where God is active in human lives.
There will be five weekly sessions in the weeks beginning March 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, April 4th .
Please book to join a group, even if you have had some discussion in your own parish, so that we can share together across our Christian families in thinking through the response of faith to these important issues.
email or phone Rosemary Walters who is co-ordinating and organising the groups
ra.walters@btinternet.com or 01227 768891 and include
· Your name and parish
· Your preferred option, live or Zoom
· Your preferred day of the week (Mon-Fri) and am or pm
emails need to be sent by Friday Feb 18th
On Thursday 9th September, Bishop Rose will be visiting the Canterbury Deanery. She has a full programme of visits to various activities in the Deanery that day ending with an open meeting in the Chapel of Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, CT1 1QU at 7:30pm at which she will be answering questions from participants about the life of the Diocese and Deanery.