Lent Digital Quiet Day
Spend time with God this Lent and explore what it means to repent, through conversation, music, Scripture and poetry.
How to navigate the Digital Quiet Day
Here are two ways you might explore the content and your time of reflection and prayer. Or, create your own journey as you explore repentance this Lent.
Exploring Repentance
This longer pathway focusses on the topic of repentance, with all the videos from our contributors, as well as some music and Abbey experiences to guide your reflections and prayer.
1. Introduction and Lent
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2. What is temptation?
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3. What is repentance?
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4. What does a season of repentance look like?
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5. What value does repentance bring to our spiritual life?
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6. Listen to Teach Me, O Lord
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7. What does a state of repentance feel like? What does it do to us?
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8. What are some resources that might help us better observe Lent?
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9. Read poems by Denise Levertov, John Donne, and DH Lawrence
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10. Are there places within the fabric of the Abbey that teach us more about repentance?
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11. Take a walk through the Cloisters
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12. Say a prayer in St Faith's Chapel
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13. Listen to I heard the voice of Jesus say
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14. Pray the Final Prayer
God at the Abbey
This shorter pathway focusses on music and experiencing the Abbey, with a few videos on repentance to guide your reflections and prayer.
1. Listen to I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
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2. Introduction and Lent
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3. What is repentance?
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4. Listen to Teach Me, O Lord
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5. What does a season of repentance look like?
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6. Take a walk through the Cloisters
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7. What are some resources that might help us better observe Lent?
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8. Say a prayer in St Faith's Chapel
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9. Are there places within the fabric of the Abbey that teach us more about repentance?
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10. Listen to The Lord's My Shepherd
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11. Pray the Final Prayer
Videos Exploring Repentance
The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle and The Reverend Catherine Williams in conversation about what repentance is, and why it matters for our spiritual lives.
An Introduction to Lent & Repentance
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What is temptation?
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What is repentance?
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What does a season of repentance look like?
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What value does repentance bring to our spiritual life?
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What does a state of repentance feel like? What does it do to us?
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What are some resources that might help us better observe a ‘Holy Lent’?
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Are there places within the fabric of the Abbey that teach us more about repentance?
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Take Time to Reflect
Explore the Abbey in a different way through these videos. Walk the Cloisters in the early morning, accompanied by the sounds of nature, or spend time in prayer in the medieval St Faith's chapel.
Walk in the footsteps of monks
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Spend some time in prayer
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Music for Reflection
Teach Me, O Lord - William Byrd
Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes : and I shall keep it unto the end.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law : yea, I shall keep it with my whole heart.
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I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Kingsfold) - Vaughan Williams
I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“Come unto Me and rest;
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The Lord's My Shepherd - Crimond - Jessie Irvine
The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want.
He makes me down to lie
In pastures green: he leadeth me
the quiet waters by.
Play video
Scripture and Poetry
Jesus in the Wilderness
Read the story of Jesus' temptation in the desert on BibleGateway
A Hymn to God the Father - John Donne
Read this poem on the Abbey website.
The Lizard - DH Lawrence
Read this poem on the Abbey website.
Primary Wonder - Denise Levertov
Read this poem on the St James Cathedral website.
Conclude your Quiet Day with prayer
Say or read these sentences.
During this Lenten Quiet Day I’ve engaged with thoughts about repentance.
Sitting in stillness, I allow the Spirit to bring to mind what God most wants me to remember.
Ask yourself these questions.
What has spoken to me most deeply?
What has surprised or disturbed me?
Where has Christ been revealed to me in a new or fresh way?
What do I sense God is asking me to do next?
Say or read this sentence, and the Grace.
I finish this Quiet Day with the words of the Grace:
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all, evermore. Amen
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