During Lent we offer an additional weekly study opportunity. Recent topics have been a course entitled “Meeting God in Mark” in 2015, the Bible Study “Journeying with Luke” in 2016, in 2017 “The Seeds of Heaven: Reading the Gospel of Matthew,” in 2018 “Meeting Jesus in the Gospel of John,” in 2019 and 2022 a series of Lenten walks,  in 2020 “Lent in a bag: Studying Lent through symbols,” and 2021 a four part course “Why Suffering?” In 2023 we studied the book “The Difficult Words of Jesus”

In 2024, starting Wednesday 21 February the Convocation is offering Praying Lent, a 5 sessions online Lenten course aimed to deepen our prayer life and spiritual development. The Convocation Canon for Spiritual Development Ali Gray, will be hosting 5 weekly sessions on zoom to help deepen our prayer lives. The sessions will be relaxed, gentle and invitational, we will practice centring prayer and journaling, the Examen, Lectio Divina, imaginative prayer and praying with art and poetry. They will last 90 minutes and will include time sharing our experiences- both struggles and joys, introduction to, and guided practice of each mode of prayer, and finish with compline.