Following Christ in the Footsteps of the Saints.
Guided by the story of St Winefride/Gwenffrewi.
For Lent 2022, we are pleased to offer a study from the Mission Theology & Apologetics Group (previously called the Mission Theology Advisory Group) – MTAG.
This journey through Lent, available to download below, draws upon 16 individual resources on St Winefride put together by MTAG and links to a 70-mile pilgrimage from Holywell, Wales, to Shrewsbury in April and May 2022, led by Bishop Sarah Bullock from the Anglican Diocese of Lichfield. We’ve made these extra resources available below, but they are also available from the Diocese of Lichfield website (under ‘St Winefride Pilgrim Trail’), from the MTAG page on the Church of England website or from the MTAG resources page on the CTBI website.
These extra resources will help you follow the St Winefride ‘thread’ which runs through this Lent material. The resources take you more deeply into the traditional accounts of St Winefride, whose story has many touchpoints with our modern world – sexual harassment and coercion, misuse of power, the place of faith and the right to follow Jesus, and the contemporary need for healing and hope.
However, if you don’t want to use the extra St Winefride resources, you can still use the study for groups or for your personal journey through Lent, because other options, based on the Scripture for the day, are also provided from the Revised Common Lectionary. Or you can mix and match.
Stations
Each station on the journey for Ash Wednesday and for each week in Lent starts from a piece of Scripture set for the day, and offers something to talk about together, something to reflect on, something to do and something to deepen our Christian lives as disciples as we seek to follow Jesus Christ more faithfully. Each station on the way then concludes with prayer.
Depending on how you like to engage with Lenten material you can pick one of the sections and concentrate on that, or use some or all of them in the course of a session or even over a week.
- Station 1 – questions and conversation starters if you like to talk about a topic.
- Station 2 – food for thought – maybe something you haven’t thought about before.
- Station 3 – something to do: practical action for you to engage with your community.
- Station 4 – something to take you deeper into being a follower of Jesus.
- Station 5 – a prayer to say together or to think about after the session.
Download resources
Lent study
St Winefride – Lent Journey 2022 (PDF, 12.4MB)
St Winefride – Lent Journey 2022 (Docx, 7MB)
St Winefride Lent Journey 2022 Large Print (PDF, 8.3MB)
St Winefride Lent Journey 2022 Large Print (Docx, 6.1MB)
St Winefride Lent Journey 2022 accessible text (Docx, 35k)
St Winefride Lent Journey 2022 text only (PDF, 198k)
St Winefride Lent Journey 2022 – CYM/Welsh (PDF, 12.3MB)
St Winefride Lent Journey 2022 – CYM/Welsh (Docx, 7MB)
St Winefride Lent Journey 2022 accessible text-only – CYM/Welsh (Docx, 46k)
St Winefride Lent Journey 2022 accessible text-only – CYM/Welsh (PDF, 221k)
Extra resources
St Winefride – Myths Miracles Mysteries Mission – following the Saints (PDF, 18MB)
St Winefride – Myths Miracles Mysteries Mission – following the Saints (Docx, 15.8MB)
St Winefride – Myths Miracles Mysteries Mission – following the Saints (CYM-Welsh) (PDF, 18MB)
St Winefride – Myths Miracles Mysteries Mission – following the Saints (CYM-Welsh) (.Docx, 15.7MB)
