For those of you who want direction for your private devotion, reflection, quiet time, or whatever you may call it, here is a guide for each of the weeks in Lent through Holy Week. If you’ve ever wondered what Lent and Holy Week is about, it is a period of weeks in the Church calendar in which we tell the Christian story with major Biblical themes resonating each week.  We are more familiar with this at Christmas, but the run-up to Easter is even greater.  That’s because the Church always regarded the resurrection of our Lord to be a greater event than his birth – and the incarnation was important!

Regardless of our various religious traditions, we should all be thinking and preparing for the annual remembrance of our Lord’s death – and the cause of it, our sin. I should have posted this on Ash Wednesday, but I just received this from a minister in our Diocese who presented it today in what we call a “clericus,” (that’s a meeting of the ministers for worship and teaching, not for “bidnuss”).

Here’s the table below.  The Scripture lessons are those appointed by the lectionery, which is a schedule of readings; the collect (pronounced KOL lekt)  is a prayer for which you need a prayer book (I have provided links so that you can read the collects on-line if you wish).   If you are not currently participating in a community of faith, you can experience the richness of the Anglican tradition at All Saints Church, which meets in the Marie Macdonald Chapel on the campus of New Covenant Schools each Sunday at 9 am.