Lent daybook, 1: Return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping...

A Lent daybook for these 40 days of prayer. Join me, won't you? 

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look 

Ash Wednesday source

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read 

Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot

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Joel 2:1-2, 12-17: Return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping...

{all readings for the day: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12  • Psalm 51:1-17  • 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10  • 
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21}

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pray 

Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent:  Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (source)

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listen 

Dust We Are and Shall Return

The Brilliance

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do

Fast for one meal a week, one food item for all of Lent, one activity or technology for one part of each day.  Do this in order to make space in your life to be more dependent on God to satisfy your cravings and desires.

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