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To "take up the cross" as our Lord commands and to carry it through to the final victory is no easy task. The burden is great and it is all to easy to let it slide off our complaining shoulders. Completing this act of faith requires discipline. Commitment to the task, preparation for the undertaking, sustenance along the way and stamina to labor on are all necessary for success. To arrive at Easter joy we commit to a daily discipline, prepare our hearts and refreshing ourselves with Word and Sacrament, ever praying for the strength to labor on, shouldering the cross on our Lenten journey. The information on this site can help shape and offer direction for your daily progress. Take up the cross in acts of Lenten discipline. During these 40 days, with personal discipline and encouragement from fellow members, we will, with our Lord, pass through the hour of death to the glorious promise of life. |
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LENTEN WORSHIP 2010
Morning and evening weekday services complement the regular Sunday morning services during Lent.
Holy Week offers a variety of daily services of Holy Communion and special services of quiet and meditation.
On Easter Day the Lord's name is praised from the rising of the sun until its setting.
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We must become, and keep, spiritually fit. We shall, of course, tend to do this feeding and this training in many different ways. No one soul can hope to assimilate all that is offered to us by the richness of Reality. Thus some temperaments are most deeply drawn to adoration by a quiet dwelling upon the spaceless and changeless Presence of God; some, by looking at Christ, or by meditating in a simple way on His acts and words as recorded in the Gospels, lose themselves in loving communion with Him. Some learn adoration best through the sacramental life. We cannot all feel all these things in their fullness; our spiritual span is not wide enought for that. Therefore we ought to practice humbly and with simplicity those forms of reflective meditation and mental prayer that help us most; and to which, in times of tranquility, we find ourselves most steadily drawn. We grow by feeding, not by forcing; and should be content in the main to nourish ourselves on the food that we can digest, and quietly leave the other kinds for those to whom they appeal. In doing this, however, we shall be wise if we do not wholly neglect even those types of spirituality which attract us least...It is well to keep in mind some sense of the rich totality out of which our little souls are being fed. Evelyn Underhill . |