Abram's Kin

20 February 2007

lent


Any thoughts on Lent out there?

What will this time mean for you?

What do you hope to get from it?

What will you sacrifice?

posted by Hannita at 10:39 AM

6 Comments:

  • Beautiful pic, hannah. I like Heidi's comment, and it makes me think that maybe my aspirations are too high! I was going to give up general indulgences (like meat and wine). But I wonder if I may be 'needing' that glass of wine or two or three after all!

    By Blogger Unknown, at 4:12 PM  

  • babies sound like so much work. :(

    thank goodness (Goodness)--we are NOT pregnant.

    Again: what Actions of Jesus does Lent mark the beginning of? or am I confused?

    JDR

    By Blogger Josh, at 5:07 PM  

  • Lent:Easter::Advent:Christmas
    Lent and Advent do not correspond directly to the Jesus-specific story; they are seasons meant to mark a time of preparation for celebration of the more concretely related events of his birth and then resurrection.

    Since Easter is about the resurrection of Jesus after his death, the Lenten season is intended to highlight, focus, and enlighten these events. On Ash Wednesday, people who receive the sign of ashes are told: 'Remember, you are dust, and to dust you shall return.' It is meant to be a sober reminder of our mortality. The big 'except' of the entire season, though, is of course 'except Christ is risen!' Indeed, the reflection is meant to remind us of our dismal state without the Christ, who has gone before us in death and resurrection. Now we have hope that one day we will follow him in immortality when he raises us from the dead.

    If I were to try to give it an association with an actual Jesus action, say, if I were writing a new lectionary, I would put the pivotal moment in Jesus' ministry there: after Peter announces his belief that Jesus is the Christ, the coming King, Jesus affirms this and then explains what it means to be Israel's king: to be handed over to the Gentiles and suffer the death of a rebel leader. At that point the gospels have Jesus beginning his trek to Jerusalem for his installation as God's kind of king on God's kind of thrown with God's kind of glory!

    By Blogger Unknown, at 8:55 AM  

  • Just FYI - not my picture. Found it on Flickr and appropriated it. I think it conveys a sense of emptyness but the beauty that can come along with that emptyness due to abstention.

    By Blogger Hannita, at 11:59 AM  

  • i cannot see abstention in this picture. i see intentional beauty.

    By Blogger Josh, at 11:30 AM  

  • thanks for the clarification, eric. this helps.

    By Blogger Josh, at 11:31 AM  

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