Practicing Lent - Second Week
During this year’s season of Lent, Church of the Redeemer is using a devotional from Salt Project called, “Practicing Lent.” Below you will see their suggested practices for this week, designed to deepen your journey through these 40 days of lengthening light. Practice them alone, or with a partner, friends, or family, sharing experiences and insights as you travel. If you would like to have a printed copy of these practices, you will find them in the library with our other Lenten resources.
Second Week in Lent
READ
Matthew 17:1-9
MEDITATE
But Jesus came and touched them, saying, "Get up and do not be afraid."
PRACTICE
"Live to the point of tears." - Albert Camus
This week, try letting your heart break for the world in a new way, knowing that God will transfigure and transform every valley, every sorrow, and every cross.
Read the news as a spiritual practice, praying for all of us caught up in the webs of violence, poverty, injustice, and war. Like so many of our ancestors, we can pray prayers of lamentation: “God of Moses and Elijah, come heal our world! Come mend our broken hearts! Come with your love, peace, and justice – let them flow like a mighty stream!” And we can also pray prayers of gratitude and celebration for what God is already doing to transfigure despair into hope, mourning into dancing, hate into love.
Whatever prayer practice you choose, let your goal be to deepen both your compassion for the world and your trust in God’s transforming presence all around.
