Devotion

Ash Wednesday

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Ash Wednesday: Lent begins this year on Wednesday, 18th February. Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence. The blessing and imposition of ashes will be at 6.30pm, followed by the Mass.

40 Hours Devotion – Quarant’Ore

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The Forty Hours Devotion (Quarant’Ore) is one of the most beautiful and contemplative traditions in Catholic spirituality. It is a devotion that speaks deeply to anyone who values reverence, safeguarding of the sacred, and the quiet strengthening of a community’s spiritual life. The Forty Hours Devotion is a period of continuous Eucharistic adoration lasting (as the name suggests) around forty hours. During this time, the Blessed Sacrament is exposed on the altar, and the faithful keep watch in prayer, silence, and reflection.

It is a communal act of love and reparation, but also a profoundly personal encounter with Christ present in the Eucharist.

Why “Forty Hours”?

The number forty carries deep biblical symbolism:

  • 40 hours traditionally recalls the time Jesus lay in the tomb.
  • 40 days of the Flood
  • 40 years in the desert
  • 40 days of Jesus’ fasting before His public ministry

In Scripture, forty is a number of testing, purification, and preparation — and the devotion mirrors that rhythm.

On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (15th – 17th February), Adoration will be from 4pm to 6pm each day.

Via Crucis

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The Via Crucis is a devotional journey that follows Our Lords’ path from his condemnation to his burial. It consists of 14 stations, each recalling a moment from the Passion. It is prayed especially during Lent and Holy Week, but can be prayed the year‑round. At its heart, it is about walking with Christ in his suffering and allowing that journey to help us prepare fpr Holy Week.

Each Friday during Lent at 5.30pm, we pray the Stations of the Cross (in place of Adoration).

Via Crucis

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5.30pm every Friday of Lent

Walk with our blessed Lord and retrace the steps of His sorrowful Passion in reparation for our sins, for which He was crucified.

“If anyone will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” (Matthew 16. 24)

Virtual Retreat for Lent

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Mary’s Mantle Consecration: You are invited to join the WhatsApp group for daily recorded meditations. Please speak to Tasha for more info or a Canon.

  • Communal prayer intention chosen by Canon Montjean: for the unity of the Church.
  • Individual prayer intention: can be private if you don’t want to reveal to the group.
  • Culminates in Total Consecration to Our Lady at The Dome with the Canons on Holy Saturday.
  • Requirements: pray daily rosary for the 46 days of Lent; listen/read the daily meditation on a different virtue every day; fast for one allocated day when the rest of the group offers their rosary for your intention.

Brown Scapular enrolment

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According to the century old Carmelite tradition, the brown scapular of the Carmelites was given by the Blessed Virgin to St. Simon Stock on July 16th in the year 1251. Pope Sixtus V approved a feast in 1587 that commemorates this important private revelation to the English man and crusader, St. Simon Stock in the South of England. If you wish to be enrolled in the confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel by receiving the brown scapular, please  speak to a Canon.