Lent at Guildford Cathedral

Each year, the Church invites us to make a journey. Lent is that journey—a pilgrimage of forty days leading us through the wilderness to the joy of Easter. It is a season of preparation, of stripping away, of honest self-examination, and of drawing closer to God.

The word ‘Lent’ comes from the Old English for ‘spring’—a reminder that this is a season not of mere privation but of new growth. Just as the earth prepares to burst into life, so we prepare our hearts to receive afresh the resurrection hope that transforms everything.

This year at Guildford Cathedral, we have prepared a rich programme of worship and study to help you make the most of these holy days. You are warmly encouraged to commit to joining us for our Lent Talks after the Sunday Eucharist, and to walk the Stations of the Cross with us during the week. These are not obligations but invitations—opportunities to go deeper, to pray more intentionally, and to walk together as a cathedral community towards the Cross and beyond it to the empty tomb.

May this Lent be for you a time of grace, renewal and deepening faith.

Read our Holy Lent booklet here