Lent 2025
Lent is a season of 40 days, beginning on Ash Wednesday and concluding on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. When we gather on March 5th for Ash Wednesday, we will be invited to keep a holy Lent with a focus on specific practices. Be prayerful about what the Lord might be calling you to this Lent.
Self-Examination and Repentance: Lent encourages deep introspection and a commitment to spiritual growth and renewal through acknowledging our sins, and seeking forgiveness.
Prayer: Lent encourages us to increase our disciplines of prayer, incorporating specific Lenten prayers or devotions, new rhythms or patterns.
Fasting: Lent encourages us to consider our dependencies through fasting and abstaining, mirroring Jesus' 40 days of fasting in the wilderness. This can involve giving up certain foods or meals, but can also include pleasures or habits.
Almsgiving: Lent encourages us to consider our relationship with our treasure and time by inviting us to acts of generosity and helping those in need.
Reading and Meditating on God’s Holy Word: Lent encourages engagement with Holy Scripture. We are encouraged to read and meditate on God’s Word, in order to hear from Him, that our lives might be formed in new and deeper ways.
Lenten disciplines are invitations from the Lord to ask ourselves important questions:
Where have I wandered off, checked out, forgotten the Lord?
How am living in a way that is hurtful to those closest to me?
Where am I putting my hope in other things?
How can I use what has been given to me to bless others,
not simply to fortify my sense of security?
Lenten disciplines are meant to serve us by helping us respond to questions like these.
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