Bulletin Insert: Week 1 – Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent – March 6, 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, […]
Sin, Like Ashes in Our Eyes, Lent 1 (C) – 2013
[…] our foreheads – but their darkness still stains our thoughts and spirits as we begin Lent once again. Tiny grains of ash, like the darkness of sin, may have fallen […]
Laetare Sunday
The fourth Sunday of Lent in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar. The term is derived from the opening words of the Latin Mass, “Rejoice (Laetare) Jerusalem” (Is 66:10). The church […]
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 […]
Bulletin Insert: Week 6 – Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent – April 10, 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, […]
The Wilderness, Lent 1 (B) – 2021
[…] 25:1-9; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:9-15 Wilderness, we have arrived. On this first Sunday of Lent, the texts thrust us quite suddenly into the wilderness. To start, there’s the story […]
Bulletin Insert: Week 4 – Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent – March 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, […]
Bulletin Insert: Week 3 – Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent – March 20, 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, […]
Bulletin Insert: Week 2 – Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent – March 13, 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, […]
Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent and Easter; Visit Lenten Resources 2019 for this and other seasonal resources
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, […]
Bible Study: Lent 1 (A) – 2017
[…] 3:1-7 On Ash Wednesday, God’s people were exhorted to begin the observance of a Holy Lent. The discipline of Lent is to be more than merely giving up a favorite […]
Tract
[…] Historically, the Tract took the place of the Alleluia during the penitential seasons of Pre- Lent and Lent and at Masses for the dead. The festal character of Easter was […]
Marking Ash Wednesday and Lent
Ash Wednesday, March 5, is the day that Lent begins. It is a day of reflection for us to stop, pause, and examine our lives. What is it we want […]
Are you traveling light on the earth? Presiding bishop's message for Lent
The Episcopal Church observes Lent in solidarity with Christians throughout the ages. Lent has anciently been understood as a time of solidarity with those who are to be baptized at […]
Grateful Lent
[…] Heather L. Melton, staff officer for the United Thank Offering As we were preparing for Lent around the UTO office, I thought a lot about Advent. The two liturgical seasons […]
More Resources for Adult Ed during Lent
Just today I received an update from Leader Resources on additional resources available for Lent. I’m trying to pass them along as I receive them in hopes they will be […]
Message for Lent 2016
[…] world, and the mandate to those who follow to live that love. The season of Lent is upon us. It is a season of making a renewed commitment to participate […]
Fifth Sunday in Lent
How’s your Lent been this year? Some people think you’re supposed to give up all frivolity, laughter, and joy, and just act depressed, because – you know – this is […]
Let the Madness begin!
Fun during Lent? It’s Madness, actually, and it all begins today: Did you ever think you’d utter the phrase “Thank God It’s Lent?” Well, thanks to today’s kick-off of Lent […]
After a Chocolate-Free Lent: Lenten Meditation, 2/13/2013
[…] Catherine Young Self-denial is probably the most common practice associated with the six-week season of Lent that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Day. Giving up sweets and […]