Welcome to a Lent daybook for these 40+ days of prayerful repentance.
Look: Confederate Truce Flag, Sonya Clark - Source & Monumental Cloth: The Flag We Should Know, Sonya Clark Source
Read about the unassuming white dishtowel used at the end of the Civil War: "The historic object is utterly unassuming, a fringed white linen dishtowel yellowed with age, with three skinny red stripes along its border. And despite the important role it played in ending the bloodiest conflict in our nation’s history, hardly anyone knows it exists.
In comparison, the Confederate battle flag has been slapped on countless commercial goods—one of Clark’s pieces at the Fabric Workshop, Propaganda, offers a written list of 200 items decorated with the Stars and Bars that are available for purchase, including bikinis, bumper stickers, and yoga mats.
That the truce flag has been forgotten while the battle flag has been memorialized—defended as a symbol of Southern heritage, rather than denounced as one of a violent conflict fought in defense of slavery—seemed to Clark an historical imbalance that she could help correct."
Listen: Stand Up (from Harriet, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Cynthia Erivo - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 137, 144; Psalm 42-43; Exodus 10:21-11:8; 2 Corinthians 4:13-18; Mark 10:46-52
Pray & Do: On Saturdays during Lent, we’ll spend about 15 minutes practicing a devotional exercise known as an examen.
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Welcome to a Lent daybook for these 40+ days of prayerful repentance.
Look: The locust invasion is the biggest in Ethiopia and Somalia in 25 years, and the biggest in Kenya in 70 years, according to the FAO, Ben Curtis/AP - Source
Listen: Deus, Deus meus, respice in me (Psalm 22), Chanticleer (Andrea Gabrieli) - Text & Translation | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 95; Psalm 22; Psalm 141, 143; Exodus 9:13-35; 2 Corinthians 4:1-12; Mark 10:32-45
Pray: On Fridays during Lent, we will pray the traditionally-read prayers of the daily office that draw us into Psalm 95, known in Latin as the Invitatory and the Venite.
Do: Fast from one kind of food, one meal, or one whole day of eating today.
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Look: ‘For he had great possessions’, 1894, George Frederic Watts - Source | Commentary
Listen: Silver and Gold, Sufjan Stevens - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 131-132; Psalm 140, 142; Exodus 7:25-8:19; 2 Corinthians 3:17-18; Mark 10:17-31
Pray & Do: Read out loud as a prayer Malcolm Guite’s sonnet in your meditation on Mark 10:17-31. (
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Look: Telling Anjanette Young’s Story, NYT Op-Ed and photo by Esau McCaulley - Source
Listen: Go Down, Moses, Marian Anderson - Text | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 119:145-176; Psalm 128-130; Exodus 7:8-24; 2 Corinthians 2:14-3:16; Mark 10:1-16
Pray: On Wednesdays, we'll pray the Confession and Litany of Penitence from the Ash Wednesday service in the Book of Common Prayer.
Do: On Wednesdays through Lent, conside
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Look: Cabeza de Cristo, Paulo Medina - Source
Listen: Psalm 126, Bifrost Arts, feat. Molly Parden - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 121-126; Exodus 5:1-6:1; 1 Corinthians 14:20-33a, 39-40; Mark 9:42-50
Pray: A prayer for honesty about my acceptance of grief.
Do: Spend some time journaling in response to today’s meditation.
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Look: Late May, Deidre Scherer - Source | H/T
Listen: How Long, How Long, Bill Fay - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 31; Psalm 35; Exodus 3:16-4:31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-19; Mark 9:30-41
Pray & Do: The Lord's Prayer - Adapted from this source and sign up to receive the free Holy Week blog series and a Zoom link for exclusive access to a conversation with this year’s guest storytellers.
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Look: Latorlépés, (Thief Step), Faludi Galéria, Párbeszéd Háza, Budapest, 2021 - Source
Listen: O Sacred Head, Surrounded, Benedictines of Mary - Text | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:7-16; Luke 20:9-19
Pray: The Collect for the Fifth Sunday in Lent
Do: On Sundays during Lent, we break our fast (at least partially) and feast on poetry!
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Look: Early in the Morning (from the CIVA exhibit “Again and Again”), Barry Sherbeck - Source
Listen: Nothing Left to Prove, Maverick City, feat. Israel Houghton & Naomi Raine - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 107:33-43; Psalm 108:1-6, 33; Exodus 2:23-3:15; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Mark 9:14-29
Pray & Do: On Saturdays during Lent, we’ll spend about 15 minutes practicing a devotional exercise known as an examen.
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Look: The Ninth Wave, Ivan Aivazovsky - Source
Listen: O Nata Lux, Lauridsen, Voces8 - Text& Translation | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 95; Psalm 102; Psalm 107:1-32; Exodus 2:1-22; 1 Corinthians 12:27-13:3; Mark 9:2-13
Pray: Pray: On Fridays during Lent, we will pray the traditionally-read prayers of the daily office that draw us into Psalm 95, known in Latin as the Invitatory and the Venite.
Do: Fast from one kind of food, one meal, or one whole day of eating today.
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Look: Women Fighting Demons, Caitlin Connolly - Source | H/T
Listen: Torches, The Oh Hellos - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 69; Psalm 73; Exodus 1:6-22; 1 Corinthians 12:12-26; Mark 8:27-9:1
Pray & Do: Read out loud as a prayer Malcolm Guite’s sonnet in your meditation on Psalm 73.
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Look: A child cries while waiting for rice being distributed to residents in Les Cayes, Haiti, on Aug. 16, days after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern part of the hemisphere's poorest nation, killing more than 2,200 people, Joseph Odelyn—AP - Source
Listen: The Ash is In Our Clothes - Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 101; Psalm 109; Psalm 119: 121-144; Genesis 50:15-26; 1 Corinthians 12:1-11; Mark 8:11-26
Pray: On Wednesdays, we'll pray the Confession and Litany of Penitence from the Ash Wednesday service in the Book of Common Prayer.
Do: On Wednesdays through Lent, consider fasting from spending money, and feast on giving alms instead.
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Look: Thankful, Henry Ossawa Tanner - Source
Listen: Gospel Medley, Destiny’s Child - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 97, 99; Psalm 94; Genesis 49:29-50:14; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34; Mark 8:1-10
Pray: A prayer for honesty about my doubts and unaswered questions.
Do: Spend some time journaling in response to today’s meditation
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Look: Eucaristía, Nguyen Dinh Dang - Source
Listen: Prayer of Humble Access, Liturgical Folk - Bandcamp w/ lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 89; Genesis 48:8-49:28; 1 Corinthians 10:14-11:1; Mark 7:24-37
Pray & Do: The Lord's Prayer - Adapted from this source.
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Look: Prodigal Son, 1888, John M. Swan -Source
Listen: The Road Home, Stephen Paulus, Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Joshua 5:1, 9-12; Psalm 34:1-8; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Luke 15:11-32
Pray: The Collect for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
Do: On Sundays during Lent, we break our fast (at least partially) and feast on poetry!
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Look: Damn, Corita Kent - Source
Listen: Blood, Kendrick Lamar - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 87, 90; Psalm 136; Genesis 47:27-48; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Mark 7:1-23
Pray & Do: On Saturdays during Lent, we’ll spend about 15 minutes practicing a devotional exercise known as an examen.
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Look: Days of Rain: Installation, Paul Roorda - Source
Listen: Come Ye Disconsolate, Roberta Flack, feat. Donny Hathaway - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 95; Psalm 88; Psalm 91-92; Genesis 47:1-26; 1 Corinthians 9:16-27; Mark 6:47-56
Pray: On Fridays during Lent, we will pray the traditionally-read prayers of the daily office that draw us into Psalm 95, known in Latin as the Invitatory and the Venite.
Do: Fast from one kind of food, one meal, or one whole day of eating today. Let your hunger prompt simple dependence and prayer, noticing areas of unmet hopes and desires that need God’s healing attention.
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Look: Allegory of Justice and Peace, Palma il Giovane - Source | H/T
Listen: Psalm 85, Poor Bishop Hooper - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 42-43; Psalm 85-86; Genesis 46:1-7, 28-34; 1 Corinthians 9:1-15; Mark 6:30-46
Pray & Do: Read out loud as a prayer Psalm 85 and Malcolm Guite’s sonnet.
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Look: Bertha (from the 1990 series Nomads), Andrew Serrano - Source
Listen: Skuggor (Shadows), Luchs - Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 119:97-120; Psalm 81-82; Genesis 45:16-28; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13; Mark 6:13-29
Pray: On Wednesdays, we'll pray the Confession and Litany of Penitence from the Ash Wednesday service in the Book of Common Prayer.
Do: On Wednesdays through Lent, consider fasting from spending money, and feast on giving alms instead.
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Welcome to a Lent daybook for these 40+ days of prayerful repentance.
Look: Adoration of the Golden Calf, Alexander Ivanov - Source
Listen: Restore Us Again, Paul Zach, feat. Liz Vice - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 78; Genesis 45:1-15; 1 Corinthians 7:32-40; Mark 6:1-13
Pray: Prayer for honesty about my desire
Do: Spend some time journaling in response to today’s meditation.
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