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LENT
2010 ECD Convention
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August 3-8, 2010Click
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The President's Message
Lent
Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great
devotion the days of our Lord's passion and resurrection, and
it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a
season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided
a time in which converts to the faith were prepared for Holy
Baptism. It was also a time when those who, because of
notorious sins, had been separated from the body of the faithful
were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness, and restored to
the fellowship of the Church. Thereby, the whole congregation
was put in mind of the message of pardon and absolution set
forth in the Gospel of our Savior, and of the need which all
Christians continually have to renew their repentance and faith.
I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the
observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance;
by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and
meditating on God's holy Word. And, to make a right beginning
of repentance, and as a mark of our mortal nature, let us now
kneel before the Lord, our maker and redeemer.
This prayer is found on page 265 of the 1979 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. It begins the service for Ash Wednesday. In these words the celebrant invites the congregation to participate in a service to recognize their sins, but to also recognize the grace and mercy of a loving God who is always ready to forgive.
I invite each of you who views this to observe a Holy Lent through prayer and meditation, fasting, devotional readings and showing love to your fellow travelers on this road of life.
May God grant you grace to follow the steps of Jesus through these last forty days of his life, his crucifixion and death.
May God grant you grace to walk out of the grave with him into the light of the countenance of God.
Lenten Blessings to you all,
Barbara
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