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"…we can not possibly know the fullness of God if we are unable to recognize his hand at work in unlikely persons or contexts."
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| LENTEN MEDITATIONS 2007 | ||||||
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Sunday
26th February |
Monday | Shrove Tuesday | Ash Wednesday | 22 February | 23 February | 24 February |
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25 February
Lent One |
26 February | 27 February | 28 February | 1 March | 2 March | 3 March |
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4 March
Lent Two | 5 March | 6 March | 7 March | 8 March | 9 March | 10 March |
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11 March
Lent Three | 12 March | 13 March | 14 March | 15 March | 16 March | 17 March |
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18 March
Lent Four | 19 March | 20 March | 21 March | 22 March | 23 March | 24 March |
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25 March
Lent Five | 26 March | 27 March | 28 March | 29 March | 30 March | 31 March |
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1 April
Palm Sunday | 2 April | 3 April | 4 April | 5 April | 6 April | 7 April |
Archbishop Katharine Jefferts-Schori wrote before the Primate's meeting in Tanzania:
"As the primates of the Anglican Communion prepare to gather next week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I ask your prayers for all of us, and for our time together. I especially ask you to remember the mission that is our reason for being as the Anglican Communion — God's mission to heal this broken world. The primates gather for fellowship, study, and conversation at these meetings, begun less than thirty years ago. The ability to know each other and understand our various contexts is the foundation of shared mission. We cannot easily be partners with strangers.
That meeting ends just as Lent begins, and as we approach this season, I would suggest three particularly appropriate attitudes. Traditionally the season has been one in which candidates prepared for baptism through prayer, fasting, and acts of mercy. This year, we might all constructively pray for greater awareness and understanding of the strangers around us, particularly those strangers whom we are not yet ready or able to call friends. That awareness can only come with our own greater investment in discovering the image of God in those strangers. It will require an attitude of humility, recognizing that we can not possibly know the fullness of God if we are unable to recognize his hand at work in unlikely persons or contexts. We might constructively fast from a desire to make assumptions about the motives of those strangers not yet become friends. And finally, we might constructively focus our passions on those in whom Christ is most evident — the suffering, those on the margins, the forgotten, ignored, and overlooked of our world. And as we seek to serve that suffering servant made evident in our midst, we might reflect on what Jesus himself called us — friends (John 15:15)."
I saw a stranger yesterday;
I put food in the eating place,
drink in the drinking place,
music in the listening place;
and in the sacred name of the Triune God
he blessed myself and my house,
my cattle and my dear ones,
and the lark said in her song:
Oft, Oft, Oft,
goes Christ in the stranger's guise.
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78703_82182_ENG_HTM.htm
Walk well your journey
in peace and in justice.
may you be wrapped
in the shawl of God's loving
may you be cherished
may you be blessed.
Bible passages are from the New Revised Standard Version and chosen from readings for the day in "An Australian Lectionary 2007, Year C".
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