At This Particular Time, Lent 3 (C) – 1998
[…] how much God loves us and forgives us, no matter what. During this season of Lent, we remember our Baptism, the time when we were marked and sealed as Christ’s […]
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Lent
[…] preparation for the Paschal feast, or Pascha (BCP, pp. 264-265). The season now known as Lent (from an Old English word meaning “spring,” the time of lengthening days) has a […]
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori Lent Message 2015
[…] comes on our foreheads on Ash Wednesday is a reminder of the cross that’s put there at Baptism,” Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said in her Lent Message 2015.
Allowing the Lord To Lead Us Through Lent, Lent 2 (C) – 2013
[…] directly with today’s gospel and Jesus’ mission that leads to the cross. The season of Lent doesn’t mean much for us until we can view our mission as part of […]
Of Cupid, and Lent, and the Dimensions of Love
On February 14 lovers will exchange cards and flowers in celebration of St. Va lentine‘s Day. Three days later we celebrate Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. The feast […]
Lent Devotions offered by heads of Episcopal Church, Anglican Church of Canada, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
[…] the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in preparing Lent Devotions for the upcoming liturgical season. Named Set Free By Truth, the Lent Devotions […]
Lent: A Season for Dominance, Lent 1 (A) – 2020
[…] the scriptures is a far cry from these examples. Today is the first Sunday of Lent, and appropriately, the lectionary passages bring us into the wilderness. The reading from Genesis […]
Life Transformed – The Way of Love in Lent revised for 2021
New and updated Lent and Easter resources for congregations, dioceses, and communities of faith are available from The Episcopal Church, with additional offerings coming soon. Available and upcoming resources include: […]
The Voice, Lent 5 (B) – 2021
[…] with all we encounter. In the name of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Lent, a season that calls us to repentance, in which we change our vestments to […]
Everything That Is Read…, Lent 5 (C) – 2001
[…] contains, in some ways, a warning and a promise. We certainly know that all of Lent has been a preparation for the momentous events of Holy Week and Easter. But […]
It Is March, a Time…, Lent 3 (B) – 1997
[…] of late winter in many states, the promise of spring in others. And it is Lent. I wonder how many of us think of Lent as a special time in […]
Washing in the Life-Giving Water, Lent 4 (A) – 2014
Lent draws the faithful – sometimes kicking and screaming – to a period of spiritual preparation and renewal in anticipation of the coming jubilance of Eastertide. Throughout the history […]
Lent Devotions offered by heads of Episcopal Church, Anglican Church of Canada, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
[…] the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in preparing Lent Devotions for the upcoming liturgical season. Named Set Free By Truth, the Lent Devotions begin with […]
Lent 5 Selected Sermon (C) 1998
Normally we think of Lent as a somewhat somber time, a time of penitence in preparation for (our remembrance of) the Crucifixion on Good Friday, followed by the celebration of […]
Bulletin Insert: Last Sunday after Epiphany – Introduction: Life Transformed – The Way of Love in Lent – February 27, 2022
The journey through Lent into Easter is a journey with Jesus. We are baptized into his life, self-giving, and death; then, we rise in hope to life transformed. This Lent, […]
For about 1,000 Years…, Lent 4 (B) – 2000
For about 1,000 years, this Sunday, the Sunday in the middle of Lent, has been a little special. Because of the Gospel account of the miraculous feeding, today has been […]
Quadragesima
Archaic term for the forty days of Lent or the First Sunday in Lent. See Pre-Lent season.
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Pre-Lenten Season
The observance of a period of a few weeks in preparation for Lent. Septuagesima Sunday was the first Sunday of the Pre-Lenten season. It was the third Sunday before Lent […]
Bible Study: Lent 1 (C) – 2022
RCL: Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16; Romans 10:8b-13; Luke 4:1-13 The liturgical season of Lent gives us both a divine invitation and a map. It embodies the first three elements […]
Driven by the Spirit, Lent 1 (C) – 2016
It is the first Sunday in Lent and it seems as if Advent was just a few days ago. During Advent and Christmas we were confronted with the scandal of […]