Lent Digital Quiet Day
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 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 Abide with Me
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14. Pray the Final Examen
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 Abide with Me
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11. Pray the Final Examen
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.
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
Play video
Spend some time in prayer
Play video
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.
Play video
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Kingsfold) - Vaughn Williams
I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“Come unto Me and rest;
Lay down, O weary one, lay down
Thy head upon My breast.”
I came to Jesus as I was,
Weary, and worn, and sad;
I found in him a resting-place,
And he has made me glad.
Play video
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
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
At different times of the day, or in different seasons, the light falling in the Abbey will light up something that you have walked past a million times and never seen before.
