Lent Group - Broken

During Lent we will be offering a 6-week study course based on the TV series Broken. Broken was written by Jimmy McGovern, starred Sean Bean and was aired in 2017. The series focuses on the life and ministry of Father Michael Kerrigan, a Roman Catholic priest, who, despite past trauma and anxiety about his own inadequacies, attempts to bring the light of Christ into the lives of people amongst who he ministers. The series portrays gritty and unvarnished real-life situations but is also mysteriously hopeful and raises questions along the way about how Christians should live faithfully when life is hard.

The course has 6 sessions, and we will watch each episode for an hour followed by a short discussion on the episode, the issues it raises, Bible study and prayer. Broken begins on Wednesday 21st February for 6 weeks with the last session on 27th March.

The course is written by Revd Dr Paula Gooder. "Broken explores the pastoral challenges a faithful parish priest encounters in his ministry. The series reaches out to all Christians who want to know how to live and love better in the contexts where they find themselves in".  The series is moving and beautiful but does also come with something of a ‘health warning’ in that it does deal with themes of death, suicide, abuse, violence and contains lots of bad language. The series originally was given a 15 rating. Because of this there will be people available from the Pastoral Team to talk to should issues arise and also a list of numbers of organisations which relate to the issues and can offer support. However, please also note the series is extremely well done and in Revd Magdalen’s words, “is the most realistic series about what it feels like to be clergy and what ‘good church might look like that I have come across so far in my own ministry. There are some beautiful, tender and incredibly pastoral moments and the final episode moved me to tears. It is well worth watching”.

Refreshments served.