While 2022 will mirror 2021 in numerous aspects - regional restrictions, mask requirements, no or limited in-person gatherings - this year many seek a more reflective Ash Wednesday. You can download our reading guide to this book below.Ash Wednesday 2022 marks another annual observance amid the COVID pandemic. A time for group discussion will be scheduled late in Lent. Highly practical, this brief devotional text supports Emmanuel’s focus on growing in Christian tools, and will also give us a window into the Orthodox Church and help us examine how individualism and self-directed choices are affecting our spiritual lives. Order it online, or ask the office to order it for you. Make Room invites children to wonder about the story, to encounter Lent with all their senses, and to experience activities in Lent as part of a life of discipleship.Įmmanuel adults can enter into the themes of this season with our Lent 2022 book, Toolkit for Spiritual Growth: Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving by Evan Armatas. This work integrates themes of hospitality and self-giving that echo Jesus’ ministry.

Each Sunday will offer a chance to engage one of the traditional Three Pillars of Lent: Fasting, Prayer, and Almsgiving, led by our Intergenerational Formation team.Īt home this year, we encourage Emmanuel kids and parents to enter into the season by using the book Make Room: A Child's Guide to Lent and Easter. This half-hour service leads us through the steps of Jesus on the way to his Crucifixion and is ideal for your lunch hour.Īs usual, we are also offering a seasonal formation focus for our parish community, but this year in an all-ages mode.

Both will include imposition of ashes.ĭuring Lent, join us in the nave for Stations of the Cross every Friday at 12:15.

We begin it together on Ash Wednesday, March 2nd this year, with a briefer liturgy of the day at 12:15 pm, or a fuller liturgy with music at 7pm. Quite soon, long-term parishioners began wishing they could also receive the benefits of this group practice, and this season expanded into a time for all Christians. Lent, the 40 day period between Ash Wednesday and Easter, began as a period of preparation for “catechumens,” those persons seeking baptism into Christ at the Great Vigil of Easter.

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