How to Read Your Way Through Lent
Feb 25th, 2008 by michelle
Here is a reading schedule for “Great Lent” adapted for 2008 from the Orthodork Cafe. The sections are short and there are no readings on Sunday. This makes it a lot easier for someone like me who doesn’t typically have a large chunk of time to sit down and read. (How I wish I did!)
March
10 Forward
11 Introduction
12The Desire
13 Humility
14 Return From Exile
15 The Last Judgment
17 Forgiveness
18 Bright Sadness
19 The Lenten Prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian
20 The Holy Scriptures
21 The Triodion
22 The Two Meanings of Communion
24 The Two Meanings of Fasting
25 The Evening Communion
26 The Order of Service
27 The Beginning: The Great Cannon
28 Saturdays of Lent
29 Sundays of Lent
31 Mid-Lent: The Holy Cross
April
1 On the Way to Bethlehem and Jerusalem
2 Taking It Seriously
3 Participation in Lenten Services
4 But By Prayer and Fasting
5 A Lenten “Style of Life”
7 An Urgent and Essential Question
8 Religionless Religion
9 Why Sacraments?
10 The Norm
11 The Decay: Its Causes And Its Excuses
12 The Meaning of Communion
14 The Meaning of Preparation for Communion
15 Confession and Communion
16 A Total Rediscovery
Here are a few other readings that could be used to fill in the remaining week and a half of Lent:
Hey, thanks for the schedule! I would have started out thinking that I had to read a lot a first, (you know be really holy)- then ‘forgotten’ for a few days…or a week..or a couple of weeks…get the idea? If I have something to stick to I am better…
Constancy not one of my virtues…
ooh thank you thank you thank you! i started this book last year and didn’t really get into it, to be fair to myself, jason did sort of “steal” it from me, but it is required reading for my catechism. this should be quite helpful.