Lent services in Castleton

St Martin’s Church in Castleton is holding special services for Lent.

Meetings will take place every Tuesday at 7.15pm, so members of the community, both regular church goers and non church goers, can come and find out more about the event.

Lent is a Christian tradition in the period leading up to Easter. For the believer, it is a time for prayer, and to resist temptation and exercise penitence.

Lent is the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Conventionally it is described as being forty days long, representing the time that, according to the Bible, Jesus spent in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, where he endured temptation by Satan.

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