Lenten Series: Engaging the Beloved Community
[…] engage the work of racial reconciliation and justice. As we enter the holy season of Lent on this Ash Wednesday, we invite you to turn in a new direction toward […]
For the Day of the Lord Is Coming…, Ash Wednesday – 2002
[…] September 11 and their aftermath. And here there lies both a comfort for us this Lent as well as a challenge. The comfort is that we are not alone in […]
Lenten Materials Now Available
By Isabelle Watkins, UTO Staff This Lenten season, we’re inviting you to 40 Days of Gratitude. Unlike seasons past, this year our gratitude challenge will be completely digital in the form […]
Great Fifty Days
[…] (praise the Lord) is said or sung repeatedly, which contrasts sharply with the season of Lent when the alleluia is omitted. The color of liturgical vestments and hangings is white […]
Almighty and Everlasting God…, Ash Wednesday – 1998
[…] the excitement of the empty tomb and the joy of His resurrection! The Season of Lent is not a happy time. –Some would say it is a downer. –Some throw […]
A call to peace and prayer for Ukraine
[…] world. As Christians in the western tradition, Anglicans/Episcopalians and Lutherans today enter the season of Lent, a time of repentance. In the Ash Wednesday liturgy we repent of “our blindness […]
Movable Feast
[…] in the church year after Epiphany, the dates of Ash Wednesday and the Sundays in Lent, the date of the Feast of the Ascension on a Thursday forty days after […]
A Lenten Reflection on Repentance
A Lenten Reflection on Repentance February 12, 2013 “Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desires not the death of sinners, but rather that they turn from […]
Te Deum laudamus
[…] Sarum Breviary used it after the last lesson at Sunday matins except during Advent, Pre- Lent, Lent, and certain other days. The 1549 BCP called for its use after the […]
Lenten Resources for Adult Education Ministries
From Episcopal Relief & Development: Lenten Meditation guide (in English and Spanish) helps us focus on alleviating hunger worldwide while preparing ourselves for spiritual healing. The daily readings are co-authored by a […]
EPPN Lenten Series: Supporting Peace in the Land of the Holy One
EPPN LENTEN SERIES: SUPPORTING PEACE IN THE LAND OF THE HOLY ONE An Ash Wednesday Reflection from Alexander D. Baumgarten Director of Justice and Advocacy Ministries for The Episcopal Church […]
News from Minnesota
[…] by Michael McNally, a professor at Carleton College. This overview covers the tradition of the Lenten Hymn Singing that takes place on the Sunday evenings during Lent. Each of the […]
The Episcopal Church offers a new Global Mission Digital Toolkit
[…] a personas, grupos pequeños, congregaciones, diócesis y nuestros asociados en toda la Comunión Anglicana. La lente del conjunto de útiles se enfoca en El Camino del Amor, prácticas para una […]
Native American Month and Advocacy today
[…] during Advent– spiritually, historically, psychologically – to participate in communal reflection, worship, and action during Lent, next summer and in the future. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori urges the […]
Presiding Bishop at National Workshop on Christian Unity
[…] how we have always done things! I want to tell you about another resurrection encounter. Lent began this year with a gathering of representatives of the churches involved in Churches […]
Fast
[…] from food was required before the reception of communion, and western Christians also fasted during Lent by abstaining from meat. As a spiritual discipline, fasting is an act of contrition, […]
Exposing the Doctrine of Discovery: a Journey of Healing and Hope, Part II: Advent 2011, the "Four Directions and Magnificat"
[…] the Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery.” Part three will be released for use during Lent 2012 and is a “Communal Reflection and Action in Response to the Repudiation of […]
Bible Study: Last Sunday after Epiphany (A) – 2020
[…] to wait? What did you learn from the waiting? As we approach the season of Lent, do you feel God is telling you to wait? What could that waiting suggest? […]
Bible Study: Last Sunday after Epiphany (B) – 2018
[…] the power and reach of God’s voice. “The Lord…has spoken.” “Our God…will not keep si lent.” “He calls the heavens and the earth.” We often think of prophets and teachers […]
Civil Discourse Curriculum: A program for reflection, consideration, discussion
[…] “We created the curriculum to be a five-week program so people can use it during Lent, but you can engage in it at any point throughout the year,” noted the […]