Lent Course: Resurrection Journeys

This course is offered not only in our Cathedral but also as a resource in the Diocese for the 100 Days of Prayer, part of of the wider discernment within the Sustaining Ministry work which is also a Cathedral concern as the mother church of the Diocese. Its presiding scripture is the Emmaus journey (Luke 24.13-35), a road that is both a road of uncertainty and loss (those travelling it are mourning Jesus’s death) and a resurrection road (he is walking alongside them all the time). So it is both a wilderness road and a resurrection journey.

This Lent, as we discern our communal way, we also walk in a wilderness of difficult times and uncertain futures. Yet at the same time we walk towards and alongside the light and joy of Jesus’s resurrection, the one who accompanies us even when we do not know it, and who opens up the Word until our hearts burn with joy and purpose.

The scriptures offered for the course nearly all appear in the Sunday Lent lections for 2026, and each session is framed by a particular value drawn from Travelling Well Together. Reflections will offer ways of using the Travelling Well Together values as a lens upon the scriptures being studied. The Travelling Well Together values of generous collaboration and sustaining healthy rhythms are emphasised in the way the sessions are set up, facilitated and shared, rather than being themes for the scripture explored. 

Throughout Lent simple prayer stations will be placed around the Cathedral to encourage prayerful engagement with our season of pilgrimage. Each station will focus on a different aspect of the Cathedral’s ministry, viewed through the lens of Jesus’ journey to his crucifixion.

Five sessions will take place during Lent and a sixth after Easter.

For more information please visit the Diocese website.

Session times and dates: 

Daytime: Thursdays at 11.15am -12.30pm in the North Transept of the Cathedral, 
beginning on Thursday 19 February (19, 26 Feb, 5, 12, 19 March).  
The final (sixth) session will take place on Thursday 16 April. 
Evening (online only) by Zoom: dates as above, time 7.30pm.

Please contact Olivia asap for the details: olivia.maxfieldcoote@chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk

Throughout Lent simple prayer stations will be placed around the Cathedral to encourage prayerful engagement with our season of pilgrimage. Each station will focus on a different aspect of the Cathedral’s ministry, viewed through the lens of Jesus’ journey to his crucifixion.