The Gift of Lent 2021 Devotional
Hello Friends,
Welcome to our Resurrection Church 2021 Lenten Devotional! (see below) 2020 and 2021 have certainly been a “year of Lent.” All the losses, deaths, separations, pains, anxieties and turmoils of the past year are powerfully summed up in the death, sorrow and self-denial of this season we call Lent. My hope and prayer for us is that this Lent, more than any other in our life time, will be a time we can dig deeply into the “sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow” because of the extraordinary once-in-a-century difficulties we have faced this year. As Kagan Bigler writes on March 26, though we may not understand these hardships, in Christ they do have a purpose—to transform us and bring us into deeper communion with Jesus.
This year’s Lenten Devotional does not include Sundays, which are traditional feast days, in the season of Lent. It also does not include Holy Week, when we will gather to observe, the events which took place in the last week of Jesus’ life. I invite you to read through this devotional as part of your observation of “a Holy Lent.” Thank you to each person who contributed a devotional this year. I look forward to “drawing near to God” and celebrating this season of Lent with you.
Grace & Peace, Rev. Elijah Lovejoy
Welcome to our Resurrection Church 2021 Lenten Devotional! (see below) 2020 and 2021 have certainly been a “year of Lent.” All the losses, deaths, separations, pains, anxieties and turmoils of the past year are powerfully summed up in the death, sorrow and self-denial of this season we call Lent. My hope and prayer for us is that this Lent, more than any other in our life time, will be a time we can dig deeply into the “sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow” because of the extraordinary once-in-a-century difficulties we have faced this year. As Kagan Bigler writes on March 26, though we may not understand these hardships, in Christ they do have a purpose—to transform us and bring us into deeper communion with Jesus.
This year’s Lenten Devotional does not include Sundays, which are traditional feast days, in the season of Lent. It also does not include Holy Week, when we will gather to observe, the events which took place in the last week of Jesus’ life. I invite you to read through this devotional as part of your observation of “a Holy Lent.” Thank you to each person who contributed a devotional this year. I look forward to “drawing near to God” and celebrating this season of Lent with you.
Grace & Peace, Rev. Elijah Lovejoy
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