During Lent, All Souls in Richmond, VA has installed a stunning piece of art behind the alter to encourage prayerful meditation.

In Sabbath, we remember and celebrate the Lord and what God alone can do. We remember God’s deliverance of His people from slavery and bondage. Only He can set us free from sin, addiction, and brokenness. We celebrate Jesus’s triumph over death through his cross and resurrection. Ultimately only God can give us fullness of life.

It was a remarkable day - and the worship! 850 voices exuberantly declared praise to our God who is worthy. It was otherworldly.

Churches around the Diocese hosted suppers and meaningful events on Shrove Tuesday to mark the end of the season of Epiphany and the start of Lent.

The Matthew 25 Initiative Offers 40 days of Anglican-shaped content for Lent about justice and mercy.

Wednesdays, March 1-22, 7 p.m.
Alexandria, VA

On Wednesdays during Lent this year, Christ the King, Alexandria, VA, is offering “Artful Lenten Prayers.”

Throughout the Anglican communion there are resources to help during this period. Below we are providing resources to aide you and your parish going into this season. We hope this is helpful as you prepare for the upcoming Lent.

In Holy Week, we encounter Jesus’ suffering and death, and we experience anew his great love. We do not go through Holy Week because we are unsure of Jesus’ forgiveness, but because we must never take it for granted. We must never skip glibly from the “Hosannas” of Palm Sunday to Easter’s “Christ is risen.” We must walk the Way of the Cross.

"As followers of Jesus, we are ministers of love and compassion and healing for those who are in great pain, physically, emotionally, spiritually. But suicide is not the answer.

"I say to all of us, young people, seniors, those facing great hardship or great pain: Do not succumb to the hopelessness of the culture of death. You are precious to the Lord and to the Body of Christ."

Receive 40 days of Anglican-informed, inspiring, beautiful, and theologically-robust engagement pieces — in the vein of the church's traditional disciplines of lent: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.

As we look toward Holy Week, we speak repeatedly in our worship of our call to walk in the way of the Cross. We even dare to pray, in the Collect for Palm Sunday, “Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering.”

None of us expected to still be experiencing a quarantine during another Lent, yet so many churches have offered meaningful ways to gather and reflect together. Well done!

A year of quarantine has only increased the creativity of children, youth, and family ministries. It is amazing to see how churches in the Diocese are encouraging all ages to draw closer to the Lord during Lent, even while apart.

Holy Spirit Anglican (Lewes, DE) uses the Meager Meal weekly Lenten event as an introduction, not only to Jesus or some aspect of the Christian faith, but as an opportunity to invite people outside the church to grow in their faith.

This season of Lent is a time of self-examination and repentance. It is not 40 days for feeling guilty, as if we can’t be forgiven until Easter.

It is the tradition of the church to offer alms during Lent. The Anglian Relief & Development Fund (ARDF) wants to partner with you in this discipline by sharing the stories of those who need our prayers, our encouragement, and our help. The stories in the 2020 Lent Prayer Guide highlight the vital role the church has in providing the most basic of needs: reliable electricity and clean water, while simultaneously bringing the love and hope of Jesus!