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Lent 2020: A Call to Prayer, Fasting, and Repentance Leading to Action

Lent 2020: A Call to Prayer, Fasting, and Repentance Leading to Action An Invitation from Presiding Bishop Curry to Turn and Pray on Behalf of our Nation [February 11, 2020] As the season of Lent approaches, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop...

Presiding Bishop's Message for Lent 2016

Message for Lent 2016  Clarence Jorden of the Koinonia Movement many years ago wrote this: Jesus founded the most revolutionary movement in human history, a movement built on the unconditional love of God for the world, and the mandate...

Carbon Fast for Lent

Episcopal News Service reports on world wide efforts to help protect the environment by beginning in Lent this year: For Anglicans, Catholics and many others, Lent is the time when we remember the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness...

Lent Message 2015 from The Presiding Bishop

The Presiding Bishop’s Lent Message 2015   Lent is about to begin. That word in English comes from an Old English word that means “to lengthen,” and it’s a reminder of the days getting longer as we move toward...

Lent Message 2014 from the Presiding Bishop

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori Lent Message 2014   “So as you enter Lent, consider how you will live in solidarity with those who are hungry, or broken, or ill in one way or another.”   [February 28, 2014]...