Lent begins very early this year, on Wednesday, February 6th. Here a few book suggestions and blog links to add to your Lenten journey.
The Rising: Living the Mysteries of Lent, Easter, and Pentecost by Wendy Wright. Wendy is a lay person who writes beautifully about the sacredness of ordinary experience.
Bread And Wine: Readings For Lent And Easter is a collection of 72 essays from a variety of writers like Dorothy Day, Madeleine L’Engle, C.S. Lewis, and Frederick Buechner.
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. If you’re just now exploring the Christian faith, or if you’re trying to come to a deeper understanding of the faith you already profess, you can’t go wrong with Lewis’s classic exposition of the basics of what Christians believe.
Living Lent: Meditations for These Forty Days by Barbara Cawthorne.
Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner. Semicolon review here.
Pilgrim Road: A Benedictine Journey Through Lent by Albert Holtz. A Benedictine monk travels through fifteen countries and contmplates the spiritual journey that we all undertake.
Our read aloud books for the Lenten season are Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair all by C.S. Lewis and The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare.
Fro my personal devotional reading, I’m reading the books of Ruth in the Bible for the month of February and the latter eight chapters of Mark in March. I’m also reading Peter Kreeft’s Christianity for Modern Pagans.
Blog Links for Lent:
Lenten Links collected by iMonk, Michael Spencer.
And an Anglican Family Lenten Carnival with lots more links.
Lenten Thoughts from 2005 at Semicolon.
Aside from reading, I’m observing Lent by taking a blog break. You might not notice too much difference at first because I’ve pre-posted and scheduled quite a bit of stuff for the next few weeks. Saturday review posts will appear on Saturday as usual. However, I took a Lent break last year and actually enjoyed it quite a bit, and so I’m taking off again this year. I hope to have a couple of guest bloggers come in take up the slack, but however that goes, I’ll see you all back on or about March 23rd, Resurrection Sunday.
May the Lord bless you and keep you, may He cause his face to shine upon you, and give you peace.
Thanks for these suggestions, Sherry!
Thanks for the link to the Anglican Family Lent Carnival. I just happened to be stopping by to check out your lenten book recommendations – what a nice surprise!
I just realized that you have the link up to At A Hen’s Pace’s post, but there is a whole CARNIVAL of lenten ideas:
http://theten0clockscholar.blogspot.com/2008/02/anglican-family-lent.html Maybe you could update your link so your readers could easily find the carnival?
Blessed Lent to you!
What a great set of books to look through! May your Lenten journey be fruitful.
Sherry–
I just wanted to add my thanks to Kerry’s for the link to the Anglican Family Lenten Carnival and to my post!
Sorry this is so belated–I’ve been behind on blog-reading due to preoccupation with children’s theater and health concerns. Hope you’re having a good Lenten break.
–Jeanne
Thanks for sharing a great list of books to prepare for Resurrection Sunday!
I am still amazed that there are a number of people who would argue that Jesus did not have to have a bodily resurrection or some even argue that Jesus’ death alone was enough, but we agree with Paul when he tells us that anything short of a bodily resurrection ignores the victory of God.
God does not want to just rescue people from this material world — God wants to restore all things. God CHOSE to send His son to die on the cross for OUR sins.
Jesus’ resurrection reminds us of three things
God has defeated death.
God has defeated evil.
God has begun His redemptive work.
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