The Season of Lent

What is Lent?

Lent is a forty-day season (excluding Sundays) of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, this season recalls our Lord’s very own fasting and temptation in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11). The Early Church crafted Lent as a season of preparation for those preparing for baptism at the Great Vigil of Easter.

In the Gospels, Jesus expects his followers to engage in spiritual disciplines, especially prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. (Matthew 6:1, 5, 16) We encourage everyone at Christ Church to live into these disciplines in the following ways:

One of the simplest ways to engage in prayer during Lent is through praying the Daily Office. Our prayerbook offers a daily morning and evening prayer liturgy saturated in Holy Scriptures; a very straightforward discipline to start in this season of penitence.
 

If you need help learning how to pray morning and evening prayer, please check out the Daily Office 2019 app (or the webpage), and use the Daily Office Podcast to follow along.

This Lent, we encourage everyone to fast from all food on Fridays (if physically able) beginning Thursdays after dinner and the breaking fast with dinner on Fridays. If you already do this, we would encourage you to join in on Wednesdays as well.

If you have questions about the why and how of fasting, please read this article for more information.

This Lent, Christ Church is partnering with Fostering Families Resource Center. More info to come! 

For more questions on Almsgiving, please read the following article at Anglican Compass.

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Weekly Lenten Schedule

Tue - Fri | Morning Prayer
Tue - Fri | Morning Prayer

8:30am – 9:00am in the Chapel Tuesday - Friday.

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Wednesdays | Mid-Day Communion
Wednesdays | Mid-Day Communion

12:00pm – 12:45pm in the Chapel | A spoken Holy Communion service.

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Fridays | Stations of the Cross
Fridays | Stations of the Cross

6:00pm – 6:30pm in the Sanctuary | Prayerfully walk the 14 Stations of the Cross to meditate on Christ’s via dolorosa in Jerusalem.

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Saturdays | Drop-in Confession
Saturdays | Drop-in Confession

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