You’re welcome here…
Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust.
This Sunday 22 February - 5pm
This Sunday we begin Lent with the ancient ritual of receiving ashes.
It's a stark moment. A priest marks your forehead with ash in the shape of a cross and says: "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
The ashes are a reminder that we're mortal. Fragile. Not who we should be.
But the cross - the shape the ashes take - means something else entirely. It means there's a God who believes in us so fully that he's making us, right now, into the people he knows we can be.
This Sunday's Gospel reading takes us into the wilderness with Jesus - forty days of fasting, forty days of testing, forty days of brutal temptation. Appetite. Idolatry. Despair. The same three tests the Children of Israel faced in their desert wanderings. The same three tests we face in ours.
Lent is not about trying harder or being better. It's about making space - through prayer, through fasting, through self-examination - for God to do in us what we cannot do for ourselves. It's about trusting that we are not alone in the wilderness.
Our readings are:
Genesis 2.15-17; 3.1-7 and Matthew 4:1-11
All are welcome!
A NEW CHAPTER HAS BEGUN!
We’re now meeting
SUNDAYS at 5PM
We are a young and growing international community committed to creating a caring and hospitable space to share life, grow in faith and serve our city in the name of Jesus.
We are also a diverse community with people from many nations and social backgrounds – students from Brno’s many universities, Masaryk, Mendel and VUT, international workers, families, and long-term residents too.
So, if you’re new to the city and looking for a spiritual home away from home, are Anglican or non-Anglican, are returning to church after a while or have questions and want to explore the Christian faith for the first time, you’d be welcome here.”
