Online: Lent Talk – 8 March 2023

8th March – Sr. Gemma Simmonds CJ

Lent as a Time of Hope

Sr. Gemma Simmonds is a well-known writer, broadcaster, theologian, academic, retreat giver and spiritual director. In this talk Gemma will explore how Lent can be experienced as a time of hope, in which God invites us to learn to ‘live differently’. Using the text of Spe Salvi, Pope Benedict’s encyclical on hope, and inspiration from art and scripture, Gemma Simmonds invites you to experience Lent as a time of hope in which the Gospel becomes something that ‘makes things happen and is life-changing’.