It might surprise you, but Sundays are not part of Lent. There are "Sundays in Lent" not "Sundays of Lent". The reason for this is that EVERY Sunday is a joyful celebration of the resurrection of Jesus the Christ. Sundays during Lent should be even more special and celebratory because Sundays are "Feast Days" when fasts are to be broken. In other words, if you give something up for Lent, it technically shouldn't affect Sunday, since every Sunday, we celebrate the fact that we know the tomb is empty!
How you choose to observe the Sundays in Lent is up to you. Remember that the purpose of Lenten fasting is to help us grow closer God.
Anyway, my Lenten devotions won't appear in the same way on the Sundays in Lent. Instead, I'll just offer at least one quote or link to things I read or heard recently that I found interesting...
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"Our knowledge and theology are important only so long as they are used to serve and honor the poor." -- Jean Vanier (Founder of L'Arche ) in From Brokenness to Community
"[We need] to embrace a "new bottom line" in which corporations, social practices, government policies andindividual behaviors are judged rational, efficient or productive not only if they maximize money or power, but also to the extent that they maximize love andcaring, kindness and generosity, ethical and ecological sensitivity, enhance our capacity to treat others as embodiments of the sacred and to respond with awe, wonder, and radical amazement at the grandeur of the universe." -- Rabbi Michael Lerner, Sojourners Voice of the Day 1/30/2009
"Church offers an alternative liturgical space to turn us into the people we want to be." -- Peter Rollins 2/26/2009
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NOTE: There are still TWO open spaces for our spring break mission trip to Jacksonville, Florida. For info/application: http://gmu747.org/spbr09.php
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