Lent at All Souls’

Christ for Us: A Common Lent

During the Lenten season, the Church prepares to commemorate the passion and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. We are called to observe a holy Lent by devoting ourselves to the disciplines of fasting, self-denial, reading and meditating on God's holy Word, prayer, self-examination, and repentance.

Our theme this Lent is—as it is in all seasons—Christ Jesus. This season, however, we will pay special attention to the ways in which our Lord has taken on our nature for our redemption. In various ways, we will attend to how Christ our God has taken upon himself our creatureliness and our mortality that he might make us new. Throughout this season, we will take as our theme the words of a 15th-century Latin hymn:

O love, how deep, how broad, how high,

How passing thought and fantasy,

That God, the Son of God, should take

Our mortal form for mortal’s sake.

Copies of our Lenten Devotional booklets will available in print at the Church, or online here.

Ash Wednesday

**February 18**
**7am, Noon*, and 6pm***
Holy Communion with the Imposition of Ashes in the Church.
**Nursery available*.

Lenten Offerings

Lenten Dinner & Speaker Series (Wednesdays at 6:00 pm, Parish Hall):

Beginning February 25, we gather on Wednesday evenings in Lent at 6:00 pm for a meal of soup and salad prepared by members of the parish, followed by a presentation at 6:30 pm by a guest speaker. Speakers this year will reflect on the Last Words of our Savior from the Cross. Activities provided for children during the speaker’s talk.

Our Lenten Dinner Speaker Series is underwritten by a generous grant from the All Souls’ Anglican Foundation.

Lenten Quiet Day (Saturday, February 28, 8:30 — 3:30*):

Our guest speaker is Amber Noel, the program director at The Living Church. She will be speaking on the theme “Christ in the Wild: Learning from Animals in Lent.” (See below for full details.)

Our Lenten Quiet Day is underwritten by a generous grant from the All Souls’ Anglican Foundation.

Stations of the Cross (Fridays in Lent, at Noon and 5:30 p.m., Church):

Follow after our Lord in his Passion, making fourteen Stations of prayer and scripture readings in the Church. Approximately 30 minutes long.

Passion Sunday Stations of the Cross (Sunday, March 22 at 5:00 pm):

For Passion Sunday, we will offer the Stations of the Cross with visual art and a choral setting of the Stabat Mater by Giuseppe Tartini. A reception follows.

Saint Mark’s Gospel (Thursday, March 26 at 6:30 pm):

In Passiontide, members of the parish will read the entirety of the Gospel according to Saint Mark, which has been called “a passion narrative with an extended introduction.”

Confession:

The penitential season of Lent is an especially fitting time to make your confession. The Book of Common Prayer provides for the Reconciliation of a Penitent. To prepare for confessions, the clergy recommend “A Guide to Making your Confession”. Confessions can be made by appointment with one of the clergy.