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Click here to download the Trinity Trumpet Lenten Companion in PDF format.My dear people of Holy Trinity,
I hope that you will enjoy this Lenten Companion—a special Trumpet edition that focuses on Prayer: Praying with Jesus through Lent. In this issue, you will find:
- reflections upon prayer and its importance to our lives;
- quotes and interesting tidbits about various practices of prayer; and
- a schedule of Holy Trinity’s Lenten offerings.
We hope, too, that you will take advantage of the channels we have created for you to respond. In addition, on Sunday, March 27, join us in Tisdale Hall at 9:10 a.m., for a Sacred Conversation on the topic of prayer. During Lent, take a few moments each day to read, reflect, and, by all means, respond! Listening and sharing is part of what it means to be a community of faith.
Faithfully,
The Rev’d Joan Pritcher
The Season of Lent
Keeping Time with Jesus
When do we pray? Don Saliers reminds us that some in the early church believed that “the life of the Christian is one long continual prayer.” During this season, Dr. Saliers invites us to consider the Church’s Lenten journey as a double journey “into the mystery of God’s unfathomable grace and into the depths of our humanity.” Read more…
Praying with the Labyrinth
How do we pray? Pamela Cooper-White, in sharing her experience of the labyrinth and its roots, describes a fully embodied form of prayer. Read more here about this form of prayer that many of you have shared at Holy Trinity. Read more…
Some Thoughts on Prayer
Why do we pray? Lynnsay Buehler writes from her perspective as a spiritual director, offering these thoughts about praying with God, aware that “God is already on the scene, already within, moving to bring comfort and healing… Read more…
Prayer: A Doorway to Thanks
I hope you’ve found some nourishment for your prayer life in these stories. I’d like to leave you with a few lines from Mary Oliver, who manages in her elegant economy to say something important about prayer. Read more…