National Day of Reflection

The nation will join together on Tuesday, 23 March for a National Day of Reflection, organised by Marie Curie, and for Christians, this will be a day to both reflect and pray.

Across the country, churches are invited to be prayerful one year on from the start of the first lockdown. There will be a minute’s silence at 12 noon followed by a ringing of church bells and later a doorstep vigil at 8pm.

The National Day of Reflection looks to reflect on our collective loss, support those who have been bereaved, and hope for a brighter future. Please see the video here which you can share through your local networks.

Resources and news items will be signposted through the Churches Together in England website.  With so many ‘calls to prayer’ over the past year, these past few months has truly been a season of prayerful response, but I hope that on this day, a year since the first lockdown, there might be an opportunity to pause, reflect and pray as we stand in solidarity with people of every faith, or none, on this National Day of Remembrance.

If you would like to join this movement to pray, then it is simply a matter of making it known. There are no groups to join or sign-up to, just an encouragement for Christians everywhere to pray as the nation pauses to remember.

A CTE news item with more information can be found here: https://www.cte.org.uk/Articles/605509/Home/Coronavirus/_National_Day.aspx