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Week 23 · 1–5 March 2027 · Lent
The valley and the furnace
Unit 7 · The New Heart: I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and a new heart I will give you. Read it, then Romans 6, then stop talking.
Session A · the reading
About 55 minutes. Open and read aloud before any framing: no introduction, no “today we’re looking at”. Scripture first, then the Father.
- Ezekiel 37:1–14; Daniel 3, with the Song of the Three Young Men
Session B · the argument
About 35 minutes, on another day. Never both in one sitting.
Read with parts. Daniel 3, with the king, the three, and a chorus for the song.
Unanswerable. Can a heart be given, or only grown?
Video. Holy Spirit
The Tile Board
Add a card: The fourth in the fire, with the passage and today’s date. Pencil a line to another card only if the child sees one.
Books this week
Optional: one piece of media
Chariots of Fire (1981). Watched together, with nothing said about why it was chosen; how the list was made.
Ring the parish now if you haven’t: how many readings at the Vigil?
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