LENT Preview – Week ONE
Posted on: February 22, 2015
Online I offer free resources for the 40 days of Lent (Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18 through Holy Saturday, April 14) that center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on Liturgical Year B (Mark). Two 40-day calendars:
and two study guides that include weekly reflections and activities:
- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter or Linked-In (see below).
This Week
2/22-First Sun. in Lent: read your 40-day guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
Mon., 2/23-Read Day 5 of your 40-day guide; read the activities for the First Sun. in Lent from the series you’ve chosen; select at least one activity to do.
Tues., 2/24-Read Day 6 of your 40-day guide; read A Meditation for Early Lent
Wed., 2/25-Read day 7 of your 40-day guide; read one or more part of John de Graaf Lenten sermon series. John’s producer and co-author of Affluenza: the All-Consuming Epidemic.
2/26-Thur.-Read day 8 of your 40-day guide; read Lent – Have you given up on giving up?
2/27-Fri.: Read day 9 of your 40-day guide; read Trophies for Tightwads
2/28-Sat.: Read day 10 of your 40-day guide; catch-up on items you may have missed during the week.
3/1-Second Sun. in Lent: Read your 40-day guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
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What’s NOW with SLW!
- LENT Preview – Week Zero // The 40 days of Lent begin Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, and end on Holy Saturday, April 14 (also called the Vigil of Easter). Sundays during the six weeks of Lent are not counted in the 40 days.Online I offer two free 40-day calendars and two free study guides that include weekly reflections and activities. For a gentle daily reminder, follow me on Twitter and Linked-In (see below). The reminders will, appropriately, center around Alternatives’ legacy resources based on L iturgical Year B (Mark). Mon., 2/16-Lent Prep – Read the Introduction to the two Mark-based 40-day guides. Choose one for the season.
Tues., 2/17-Lent Eve – Read the Introductions of both Mark-based series. Choose one for the season.
- Learning to Live by God’s Truth
2/18-Lent Day 1, Ash Wed.: read day 1 of the 40-day guide you’ve chosen; read the reflection for Ash Wed. from the series you’ve chosen.
2/19-Thur.: read day 2 of your 40-day guide; read the activities for Ash Wed. from the series you’ve chosen; select at least one activity to do.
2/20-Fri.: read day 3 of your 40-day guide; read A Different Kind of Lent
2/21-Sat.: read day 4 of your 40-day guide; catch-up on items you may have missed during the week.
2/22-First Sun. in Lent: read your 40-day guide and the reflection for this day in your chosen series.
- Who’s Risen from the Dead, Anyway? is an expanding, free collection of alternative resources for Lent/Holy/Week/Easter. This year it features ten lenten blogs by author, speaker, workshop leader Susan Vogt. Susan is also our interviewee on both episodes of SLW! Podcast this month. Get to know her in Part One. Part Two, released Feb. 15, focuses on alternative Lenten practices. Contribute to Whose Risen from the Dead, Anyway? online. | Submission Guidelines || MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Alternative Ash Wed. and Lent, Feb. 18
- MORE Free Lent/Easter Alternative Resources
- Simpler Living Alternative Daily Calendar – February
- Check out a few of SLW! thought-provoking, timely resources that might meet your personal, family or congregational/group needs. They’re all FREE. Visit Seasonal/Thematic Resource Index
What’s Coming
- Feb. SLW! Podcast – Author, speaker and blogger Susan Vogt
- Waging Peace at Tax Time
- March – Blogger, event organizer Joel Zaslofsky. Joel is the Chief Simplifier, Curator, and Founder at Value of Simple: Liberate Your Time, Money and Talent. He also hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters show, SimpleREV Conference and All Things SimpleREV Podcast; author of Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence and Simply Your Life
What’s Happened
- PEACE – Institute for Peace & Justice; more
- Previews of Simple Living Blogs, Podcasts and Sites // New Collaborators and Champions
- Recent Responses to all SLW! media, including links
What Others Are Doing
- The Common Good Podcast
Episode 56: Carol Watkins on Shared Housing - NEW three minute film: Ecology and Economics—Colleagues, Not Rivals
Conversation about The OneEarth Project and the book, Blinded by Progress: Breaking Out of the Illusion That Holds Us, by Lee Van Ham. | TheCommonGoodPodcast.com, episode 42 | Lee’s new Slide Show - Godspace for Lent 2015: Seven Tips for Creating Sacred Space for Lent || 5 Ways to Foster Creativity in Kids During Lent || Get Creative and Play Games in Lent
- Colleague Kevin Tupper’s new Christian Simplicity site is starting a new discussion using Mark Scandrette’s book, “FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most.” He welcomes anyone to join in.
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