1st Question: What is Lent?
Old English word for the Spring season: ‘Lencten’ “Lengthen”.

Old Saxon name for the month of March which is “Lenct-Monat”.

Lencten + Lenct-Monat = LENT

Days of Lent
Shrove Tuesday: Carnival (Carnivale; Mardi Gras)

Ash Wednesday: Start of 40 days of Lent

Maunday Thursday: Foot washing and Holy Communion

Good Friday: Trial and execution of Jesus

Holy Saturday/Black Saturday: Silence

Easter Vigil: Resurrection of Jesus

2nd Question: Why Lent?
Lent undermines my arrogant assumptions

Lent Renews My Faith

Lent: “A season of recovery” - Dr. Esau McCaulley

Lent Lets Me Be Vulnerable

Lent Focuses My Spiritual Practice

Lent Slows Me Down

Lent Leads Me into New Possibilities

Question: What’s the point?

“Lent for Everyone” – N.T. Wright

“When God forgives, God does so not in order to bring us back from being ‘in the red’ merely to
having a ‘zero’ balance. God does so in order to guide us into new tasks and callings he’s had in
mind for us all along, but for which we weren’t ready.” – N.T. Wright