Welcome to a Lent daybook for these 40+ days of prayerful repentance.
Look: Issue of Blood, Brian Kershisnik - Source
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Listen: Corner Girl, Abigail Washburn - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 80; Genesis 44:18-34; 1 Corinthians 7:25-31; Mark 5:21-43
Pray & Do: The Lord's Prayer - Adapted from this source.
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Look: Moses with the Burning Bush, Marc Chagall - Source
Listen: Comfort ye, my people, Handel’s Messiah, The Sixteen - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Exodus 3:1-15; Psalm 103:1-12; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9
Pray: Collect for the Third Sunday in Lent
Do: On Sundays during Lent, we break our fast (at least partially) and feast on poetry.
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Look: Joseph Revealing Himself to his Brothers, Gerard de Lairesse - Source
Listen: I Am Sure I Shall See the Goodness of the Lord, Taizé - Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 75-76; Psalm 23, 27; Genesis 43:16-34; 1 Corinthians 7:10-24; Mark 5:1-20
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: Ecce Homo, Joel Briggs - Source | H/T
Listen: Wake Up, Jesus, The Porter’s Gate, feat. Liz Vice - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 95; Psalm 69, 73; Genesis 43:1-15; 1 Corinthians 7:1-9; Mark 4:35-41
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 unarticulated anger that need God’s healing attention.
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Look: Beloved, Tim Lowly - Source
Listen: Come Healing (Leonard Cohen cover), Elayna Boynton - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 70-71, 74; Genesis 42:29-38; 1 Corinthians 6:12-20; Mark 4:21-34
Pray& Do: Read out loud as a prayer Malcolm Guite’s sonnet in your meditation on Psalm 71.
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Look: A line of children’s clothing signifying the children who died at a residential school, one of many where the Canadian government forcibly enrolled at least 150,000 Indigenous children to assimilate them into Western ways. (Kamloops, British Columbia, June 19, 2021), Amber Bracken for The New York Times - Source
Listen: - Death Song Lament, R. Carlos Nakai - Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 72; Psalm 119:73-96; Genesis 42:18-28; 1 Corinthians 5:9-6:8; Mark 4:1-20
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: Judas Iskariot, Eilif Peterssen - Source
Listen: Forgive Them Father, Ms. Lauryn Hill - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 61-62; Psalm 68:1-20, 24-36; Genesis 42:1-17; 1 Corinthians 5:1-8; Mark 3:19b-35
Pray: Prayer for honesty about any feelings of anger I’m carrying with me this week.
Do: Spend some time journaling in response to today’s meditation.
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Look: Rainbow - VM, Adrie Bos - Source
Listen: Nothing to Fear, The Porter's Gate - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 56-58; Psalm 64-65; Genesis 41:14-57; 1 Corinthians 4:8-21; Mark 3:7-19a
Pray & Do: The Lord's Prayer - Adapted from this source.
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Look: Man of Sorrows, James B. Janknegt - Source
Listen: When Jesus Wept, Jan Garbarek, William Billings, Hilliard Ensemble - Lyrics | Spotify
Read: Genesis 15:1-8; Psalm 27:9-17; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35
Pray: Collect for the Second Sunday in Lent
On Sundays during Lent, we break our fast (at least partially). We also feast on poetry! Read this week’s poem, “The Weeping” by Federico Garcia Lorca, and spend a few moments preparing for the second full week of Lent.
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Look: Clearing the Way for a Photo Op (St. John’s Cathedral, Washington, D.C.), Jeff Wheeler - Source
Listen: Sinners, Saints and Fools, Brandi Carlile - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 55; Psalm 138 - 139; Genesis 41:1-13; 1 Corinthians 4:1-7; Mark 2:23-3:6
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: Feet of an Apostle, Albrecht Durer - Source
Listen: Send Out Your Light (Canyon Sessions), Sandra McCracken, feat. Ashley Cleveland - Bandcamp w/ lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 95, 40, 43; Psalm 51; Genesis 40:1-23; 1 Corinthians 3:16-23; Mark 2:13-22
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, paying special attention to areas of numbness, disconnect, or denial that need God’s healing attention.
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Look: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, Guido Reni - Source
Listen: My Silver Lining, First Aid Kit- Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 50; Psalm 46; Genesis 39:1-23; 1 Corinthians 2:14-3:15; Mark 2:1-12
Pray & Do: Read out loud as a prayer Malcolm Guite’s sonnet in your meditation on Psalm 46. (Or click the title link to hear the author read it himself.)
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Look: In this elevated view, people are seen walking through the flags of the "In America: Remember" public-art installation near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., on September 19, 2021. The installation commemorates all the Americans who have died of COVID-19. It is based on a concept by the artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg and includes more than 650,000 small plastic flags, some with personal messages to those who have died, planted in 20 acres of the National Mall, Al Drago / Getty - Source
Listen: Keening of the Three Marys, William Coulter - Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 119:49-72; Psalm 49; Genesis 37:25-36; 1 Corinthians 2:1-13; Mark 1:29-45
Pray: On Wednesdays, we'll pray the Confession and Litany of Penitence from the Ash Wednesday service in the Book of Common Prayer. Include the specific names of people and places that come to mind as you pray.
Do: On Wednesdays through Lent, consider fasting from spending money, and feast on giving alms instead.
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Look: Breeze Rustling Through Fall Flowers, 1968, Alma W. Thomas | Photo: Victoria Emily Jones - Source
Listen: Dust Cain’t Kill Me, Secret Sisters - Spotify | YouTube w/ lyrics
Read: Psalm 45; Psalm 47-48; Genesis 37:12-24; 1 Corinthians 1:20-31; Mark 1:14-28
Pray: Prayer for honesty
Do: Spend some time journaling in response to today’s meditation.
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Look: Carved Conversations, SaraNoa Mark - Source
Listen: Psalm 44, Streetlights - Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 41, 52; Psalm 44; Genesis 37:1-11; 1 Corinthians 1:1-19; Mark 1:1-13
Pray & Do: The Lord's Prayer - Adapted from this source.
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Look: Christ in the Wildnerness, Ivan Kramskoy - Source
Listen: There Is a Solitude, Luke Howard, Voces8 - Spotify | YouTube
Read: Deuteronomy 26:5-11; Psalm 91:9-16; Romans 10:4-13; Luke 4:1-13
Pray: Collect for the First Sunday in Lent
Do: On Sundays during Lent, we break our fast (at least partially) and feast on poetry.
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Look: Making A Red Cross, Stanley Spencer - Source
Listen: Dead Man (Carry Me), Jars of Clay - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 30, 32; Psalm 42-43; Ezekiel 39:21-29; Philippians 4:10-20; John 17:20-26
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 Prodigal Son, Letterio Calapai - Source
Listen: Abba (Live), The Worship Initiative, feat. Davy Flowers - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 95; Psalm 31; Psalm 35; Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32; Philippians 4:1-9; John 17:9-19Pray: 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, paying special attention to areas of numbness, disconnect, or denial that need God’s healing attention.
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Look: Prayers of the People I, Meena Matocha - Source | IG
Listen: Amulet / The Jesus Prayer, Jeff Johnson & Janet Marie Chvatal - Bandcamp w/ lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Psalm 37; Habakkuk 3; Philippians 3:12-21; John 17:1-8
Pray & Do: Sit in silence for 5 minutes, praying only the ‘Jesus Prayer’.
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Look: A house sits covered by a deep blanket of ash from a volcano erupting on La Palma, in Spain's Canary Islands, on October 30. After 85 days and eight hours of destruction, the Cumbre Vieja volcano in Spain's Canary Islands finally finished erupting on December 13, 2021. The volcanic eruption - sending lava into neighborhoods and raining ash downwind - was the island of La Palma's longest active eruption on record, according to Canary Island government officials. Emilio Morenatti / AP - Source
Listen: From the Dust, Paul Zach - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
Read: Isaiah 58:1-12; Psalm 103; 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:10; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for Ash Wednesday
Do: Attend an Ash Wednesday service
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