Lent 2023

Lent & Holy Week Schedule

Shrove Tuesday
Pancake Breakfast – February 19, 9 am
Firepit- February 21, 7 pm

Ash Wednesday– February 22
7 am – 9, Holy Ashes To-Go at White Luttrell Parking Lot
12 pm service *livestreamed
7 pm service *livestreamed

Lenten Wednesdays
March 1-29, 6:30- 8 pm

Palm Sunday– April 2
Eucharist 8am, 10:15am (livestreamed)

Shadows–
Tenebrae resources for self-directed time

Maundy Thursday- April 6
Simple Dinner Church, 6pm
At-Home Aape Dinner

Good Friday– April 7
Noon, Stations of the Cross outdoors at Ridley Park Lake
Traditional Liturgy, 7pm *livestreamed

Gardenwatch- April 7 beginning after the Good Friday service
Praying through the night

Easter Vigil– April 8
Eucharist service outdoors, 7pm

Easter Sunday– April 9
Eucharist 8 am, 10:15 am *livestreamed

*Livestreamed services are also in-person

Lenten Study

Wednesday Evening Lenten Series
Lent Supper, Study, and Compline
The learning and discussion part of the evening will be hybrid (zoom accessible)

Sunday Adult Forum
Nooma video series by Rob Bell
March 5-26, 9:15-10 am in the Deppich Room

At Home- On your own

What is Lent?

Early Christians observed “a season of penitence and fasting” in preparation for the Paschal feast, or Pascha (BCP, pp. 264-265). The season is now known as Lent (from an Old English word meaning “spring,” the time of lengthening days) has a long history. Originally, in places where Pascha was celebrated on a Sunday, the Paschal feast followed a fast of up to two days. In the third century this fast was lengthened to six days. Eventually, this fast became attached to or overlapped, another fast of forty days, in imitation of Christ’s fasting in the wilderness. The forty-day fast was especially important for converts to the faith who were preparing for baptism, and for those guilty of notorious sins who were being restored to the Christian assembly. In the western church the forty days of Lent extend from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday, omitting Sundays. The last three days of Lent are the sacred Triduum of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. Today Lent has reacquired its significance as the final preparation of adult candidates for baptism. Joining with them, all Christians are invited “to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word” (BCP, p. 265). – Episcopal Dictionary of the Church