Mar 03 2006

Lenten Prayer on Ash Wednesday

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 22:43

Might that I accept the
forgiveness of my sins,
the forgiveness that You’ve
promised to me,
secured for me,
and
given to me through
Your Son Jesus’
death on my behalf.

Might that I come to forgive
myself
and live in Your grace and love.

Thus, even though I
(even though we)
tend to think that
my sins
(our sins)
are bigger and greater
than Jesus’ sinless sacrifice on the Cross,

Might that we,
as a community,
spend these 40 days
reflecting on Your actions,
listening to Your words,
and
loving You for all You’ve done.

Might that we remember
that we are dust
and to dust we shall return.

Amen.
Hallelujah.
Amen.

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Copyright 03/01/2006

Mar 03 2006

First Sunday of Lent

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 22:35

First Sunday of Lent:
March 5th, 2006

Genesis 9:8-17
Psalm 51:1-17

More than anything else during this Season of Lent, I wish to impress upon adults and children how sacred this time is in the life of individual Christians and in the long spiritual history that is the Christian faith. The journey thought Season of Lent should be the defining experience in what it actually means to be a Christian. During Lent, the Church allows itself to reflect, meditate, and focus upon why Jesus came to this world, what He accomplished, and how His Birth, Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection have changed the direction of the world in its entirety. Thus, for the children and adults that we both teach and impact by our lives in general, I feel that it is our responsibility to truly embody all that this Season entails.

I approach the task of writing the lessons for this Season, having really only celebrated Lent for the second time in my whole life. Oh, by going to Church with my Roman Catholic father for the first 15 years of my life, I attended many services during Lent, with many Palm Sunday being of noticeable memory. However, since I was not a Catholic myself (as a child, my father never pressed my mother to send me to Catholic Sunday School, i.e. CCE), I did not have any appreciation for the confessional voyage that Catholics, Orthodox, and “high” Protestants undertake during Lent, or any season for that matter. And while I have no regrets over the events comprising my past, as they make me who I am today, I do wish that I could have grown up experiencing community in a liturgical fashion.
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