Keeping a Holy Lent

A few thoughts on having a Lenten Discipline. 

Why have a Lenten Discipline? https://buildfaith.org/lenten-disciplines/

Guiding Teenagers in Lent: Giving Up on Giving Up? https://buildfaith.org/guiding-teenagers-lent-give-giving/

Preparing Children for Lent: https://buildfaith.org/4-things-i-tell-children-the-sunday-before-lent/

 More suggestions for a Lenten Discipline

• Beyond giving up chocolate, fasting from:
  • An electronic device (perhaps fasting entirely, or during certain times of day)
  • Carbon (perhaps fasting entirely, or from certain emitters: take public transit or bike instead of driving; hang your laundry instead of using the dryer; etc.)
  • A personal vice, even if it’s just raising your personal awareness of it (such as assuming the worst of others’ actions, gossiping, speeding, jealousy, worrying excessively, etc.)
• Taking on instead of giving up:
  • A Christian virtue you’d like to develop (see Galatians 5:22-23 and 1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
  • If you have 5-10 minutes a day
    • Episcopal Relief and Development Lenten Meditations https://www.episcopalrelief.org/church-in-action/lent/
    • Lent Madness: https://www.lentmadness.org/
    • Pray As You Go: https://www.pray-as-you-go.org/
  • If you have 20-30 minutes a day
    • The Daily Office (Morning and Evening Prayer) from Mission St. Clare: http://www.missionstclare.com/english/index.html
    • Videos from the Bible Project: https://thebibleproject.com/explore/shema-listen/
  • If you have 1 hour a week
    • Worship every Sunday morning at St. James’s (or online: https://doers.org/live/)
  • If you have 10 minutes a week:
    • Be Ye Hearers, St. James’s podcast (available wherever you download podcasts, including Spotify and Apple Podcasts)