Dear Friends,
What is your experience of the season of Lent this year? Is it passing by almost unnoticed, or do you find yourself forgetting the discipline you had intended to undertake for the season? Is the season overrun by the ongoing stresses and responsibilities that form the picture of your daily life?
The questions raised above are probably and unfortunately the most likely experience of the average American Christian here in the 21st-century. It takes a definite and ongoing intentionality in order to experience Lent truly in our time. One key to maintaining and growing a sense of the season may be found in the liturgy of Lent. Praying the morning or evening prayer of the season, taking time at the beginning or conclusion of your day to read and pray over the Scripture readings for Eucharist each day: these simple commitments can radically deepen our lived sense that there is something substantial in the season, something transformative for life, something well worth grasping and allowing oneself to be grasped by as well.
You can find the Scripture readings of each day and morning and eveing prayer online. There are apps available for your smartphone that can bring meditations on the season to you daily, wheverer you are and no matter how fast you are moving.
This season is a gift to the baptized, a renewed taking to heart again who we are and who we are called to be. Take the gift and open it. It's not too late.
Check out Mercer's offerings for the season by accessing our Coming Events/Regsiter button to the left on the Mercer School homepage. And check out our lenten resources page as well.
Blessings,
John+
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