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Is your child aged between two-and-a-half and school age? St Chad’s Preschool St Chad’s Pre-school St Chad’s Pre-school Opposite Abbey Lane School 56 Abbey Lane, Woodseats S8 0BP Monday & Tuesday: 8.45-11.45am Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: 8.45am-3.15pm WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY FULL DAY SESSIONS Monday/Tuesday/Friday 8:45 - 11:45 Wednesdays and Thursdays 8:45 - 3:15 • A fun and exciting environment for your child • Experienced and qualified staff • Learning through play to help your child reach their potential • Free early learning funding for eligible children Every Wednesday from 9.30-11.30am Pop in for an info pack or call 07526 100755. We would love to see you! St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Page 10 email: offi ce@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
Sackcloth comes up a fair amount in the Bible. Usually made of goat’s hair, it is a coarse fabric which is (I would imagine) extremely uncomfortable to wear. Sackcloth is not fine clothing (Isaiah 3:24). Often in the Bible ashes appear alongside sackcloth: someone would put the ashes of burnt wood on their head, as well as wearing sackcloth. There are a variety of reasons in the Bible that people put on sackcloth (and often ashes, too). When Jacob, the father of the multi-coloured coat wearing dreamer Joseph, sees evidence pointing to the death of his favourite son, he tears his clothes and puts on sackcloth as a sign of mourning (Genesis 37:33-34). Sackcloth and ashes are also worn as a sign of morning for personal or national disaster. For example, Job, when he loses family, business and good health (Job 16:15), and Mordecai, when he learns of a plot to annihilate his people (Esther 4:1). These were the traditions of the past, just as our signs of mourning are wearing black at funerals, or leaving flowers at a crash site or outside a building. Daniel (rescued from the lions’ den) wears sackcloth and ashes, as well as fasting, in a time of prayer for the deliverance of Jerusalem (Daniel 9:3). But probably the most common occurrence of sackcloth in the Bible is its sign for repentance of sin. ‘Repentance’ and ‘sin’ are both loaded words, but essentially it is about turning away from something and turning back to God. In the story of Jonah (who gets swallowed by a fish), the Ninevites and their king fast, and (along with even their animals!) wear sackcloth as a sign of their repentance from their evil ways (Jonah 3:5-9). Repentance, along with self-examination, study and fasting, are traditional elements of the Christian season of Lent. On the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday, it has been customary since the Middle Ages for Christians to be marked with ash in a cross shape, because of ash being a sign of repentance. However, it is uncommon for Christians to wear sackcloth today. Lent is the season of preparation before the greatest of the Christian festivals, Easter, where we remember the death and resurrection of Jesus. In this busy world we all need time and space to reflect on who we are and the things we do, to take a pause and rest from the things that consume us, and perhaps to take up something healthier. Lent is the annual Christian season that puts all these things on the agenda. Rev James Norris Sackcloth, Ashes and Lent St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Page 11 email: office@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
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