OUR LENTEN JOURNEY
Grace Episcopal Church, Oak Park, Illinois
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Contemplative Prayer Services
Thursdays at 9PM during Lent
Lenten Prayer Services
A Benedictine Experience 
Tuesday, April 1st
7:00 p.m.
St. Benedict
Join us in the Parish Hall for a Benedictine experience: a soup supper with spiritual reading, then Lectio Divina Bible study, and ending with Evening Prayer and centering prayer.
 
Learn more here.
  
Book Study Group
Wednesday, April 2nd
7:30 p.m.
The book study group organizes itself around authors who focus on living more fully from one's soul in the second half of life. The life of Christ is often used by such authors as a paradigm for this.
 
We will be learning about Tibetan Buddhism and the psychology of Carl Jung. The book we chose describes the basics of each and compares the two: The Essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism: Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart by Radmila Moacanin.
 
Learn more here.
  
A Bag for Lent
Making your own "Bag of Lent" at home is a great activity for the whole household!
A list of materials to make your own A Bag of Lent, as well as ideas for its use are at this link.

Lent in a Bag  

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop's Lenten Message for 2014
Katharine Jefferts Schori

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's Lent Message 2014 encourages us to to "think about your Lenten practice as an exercise in solidarity with all that is - with other human beings and with all of creation."    

 

The Presiding Bishop's video message is available at this link. 


Lenten Resources 
  • Episcopal Relief & Development Resources available here.   
  • Daily Prayer: A Resource of Forward Movement available here.    
  • Seven Weeks for Water - seven reflections from the Ecumenical Water Network are available here. 
Lenten Prayer Stations
Available throughout Lent in the church
There are several Lenten Prayer Stations set up in the church. We encourage you to walk them and take part in the activities or meditations offered at each station. To view full size images, click here. 

Lent is a border-walking time: Death and Life, Glory and Shame, Sin and Grace, Temptation and Repentance, all littering the Lenten landscape, all halting us in our liturgical tracks for a forty-day blink of the inner eye.  There are many ways to observe Lent.  There is no one right way. Some make behavioral or culinary changes, some fast, some pray more, some create more space for quiet or introspection.  
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