Resources for your spiritual life

Spiritual Resources

...grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 3:18

We have put together a few resources below that you may find useful to enlarge your spiritual life.

Group meetings for study and prayer please contact administrator@wantageparish.com for details

• Home group: Monday evenings at Andrew & Caroline Haines' home.
• Old Testament study group: Tuesday mornings in people’s homes, co-ordinated by Sheenagh Dernie. 
• 'Fully Booked' Book Group: Wednesday evenings (monthly) in The Bear Hotel, Wantage Market Place
• Contemplative and Intercession Prayer Groups: Thursday evenings (monthly) online, co-ordinated by Susie Lapwood.

Personal Discipleship Plan

To engage with the ‘Personal Discipleship Plan’ scheme, and maybe take up the offer of meeting with one of our team of Encouragers, contact Susie at PDP@wantageparish.com if you are interested in this. You can find out more on the Oxford diocese web page. 

Gifts for Everyday Faith can be used on its own, or as the first step in a Personal Discipleship Plan. The answers you provide to the series of simple statements in the document will help you to think through where your gifts are strongest. It's a surprisingly insightful tool! Follow the Gifts for Everyday Faith link to discover your gifts.

Apps

Church of England Everyday Faith App is a daily devotional app from the Church of England designed to inspire, equip and encourage you in your faith every day of the week, not just on Sundays.

‘Pray as you go’ offers daily scripture, led meditation and music through the year, as well as teaching about spiritual practices such as Lectio Divina and the Ignatian Examen. You can opt in to their extra Lent materials as a ‘Lent retreat’. It is available via website and phone app (all free).

Church House Publishing (the official publisher of the Church of England) has various Apps available. Some apps offer a free introductory period followed by a subscription rate which can be read in the T&C's.

Sign up for Daily meditations from Richard Rohr throughout the year via the Centre for Action and Contemplation  

Other resources

The above are just a few examples. There are many more resources, suitable for any time of year, on the Oxford Diocese website: see here for  discipleship and for prayer and scripture.

Confession: Please contact the vicar at vicar@wantageparish.com to arrange this.

Advent Spiritual Resources

ADVENT HOME GROUP

The Curate Frances Caroe and Martyn Payne are once again offering their sessions on linked passages from the Bible and from the canon of English poetry. This advent we will be looking at passages from Job with poems of Milton, Donne, Hopkins and Blake.  Sessions are every Tuesday beginning on 25th November at 7 St Michaels, Priory Road.

• Reflections via email: Sign up to our Christmas reflection emails and receive daily messages straight to your inbox. Our daily emails will offer Bible readings, short reflections and a practical challenge, as well as prayers linked to weekly themes.

• Downloadable reflections for 11-15 year olds: Following the same themes and Bible verses as our Advent reflections for adults, these bitesize daily reflections for young people written by Lucy Rycroft can be downloaded in full colouror black and white. A four week session plan for youth groups using the reflections together is also available to be downloaded.

• Daily reflections via Everyday Faith app:You can read and listen to daily Advent and Christmas reflections from 1 December through the Everyday Faith app, the daily devotional app from the Church of England, which is available to download here.

• Women of the Nativity:​​A collection of nine imagined stories told from the perspective of women, written by Paula Gooder, recreating the events of the Nativity. Listen here.

• Online services:Can't make it to church this Advent and Christmas? Watch our weekly online worship servicesfrom across the Church of England and worship with us this festive season.

AUDIO ADVENT REFLECTIONS from PRAY AS YOU GO

Pray as you Go are offering a series of audio reflections around the Advent Psalms designed to help guide you more deeply into this season of waiting and hope. This is a free resource. Some of their resources, including those from previous years, via the Pray as you Go website or app : 

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