The living Spirit and liturgical calendar
When I am tempted to focus on Lent as an individual journey, the prophet Joel sets me straight right away (Joel 2:15-16). It’s about us, God’s people, returning to him.
When I am tempted to focus on Lent as an individual journey, the prophet Joel sets me straight right away (Joel 2:15-16). It’s about us, God’s people, returning to him. A description of the beginning of Lent in a 1947 seventh-grade religion textbook makes the same point: “Thousands and thousands of people upon the stage of life are adjusting themselves to their roles in this drama – this drama which is real life … From all parts of the world they come and from all walks of life – kings and queens, merchants and labourers, teachers and students, bankers and beggars … All are quietly taking their places, for all are actors in the sublime mystery drama of our redemption.” Every one of us journeying through the season, together.
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