An (un)Common Book of Hours
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Lent is an important season of the Church’s Liturgical Year. The traditional purpose of Lent is one of preparation; preparation for the season of Easter which follows it. Prayer is one way through Lent that can be used to prepare for Easter, and prayer is the focus of this booklet.
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An (un)Common Book of Hours - Peter Watkins
An (un)Common Book of Hours
Lent - Year C - 2013
Compiled by Peter Watkins
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Table of Contents
Preface
Lent 1
Ash Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
First Sunday of Lent
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Lent 2
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Second Sunday of Lent
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Lent 3
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Third Sunday of Lent
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Lent 4
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Lent 5
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Lent 6
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Passion or Palm Sunday
Monday of Holy Week
Tuesday of Holy Week
Wednesday of Holy Week
Notes
Copyrights and permissions
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Preface
Lent is an important season of the Church’s Liturgical Year. It is a period of 40 days which commences on Ash Wednesday and finishes on Easter Eve, which is also known as Maundy Thursday. The traditional purpose of Lent is one of preparation; preparation for the season of Easter which follows it. Easter is the season that defines the purpose of Christianity; the period of time that commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus, the latter event being the foundation of the Christian faith. Traditionally, penitence, self-denial and prayer have been the means that believers have used throughout the period of Lent to prepare for Easter, and it is prayer that is the focus of this booklet. The aim of this booklet is to act as a prayer devotional resource for Lent.
So why An (un)Common Book of Hours
?
My motivation for this booklet was to compile a set of reflections and prayers drawn from a group of Christians which reflects, to what seems to me, the great diversity which exists within Christianity, something that is not often acknowledged nor sufficiently celebrated. This represents the (un)
component of the title. The Common
is derived from the use of the Daily Readings of the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), a three year table of readings from the Bible which is in widespread use around the world (see commontexts.org for further details on the RCL) and thus is common to many of those who offer homilies each week, and the Book of Hours
refers to the devotional content of this booklet.
Recruitment of the contributors to this project was by invitation. Some of the contributors I have known for quite some time while, for others, this represent the first time that I have had contact but I hope that this will continue beyond the scope of this booklet. In order to participate, each contributor was sent a copy of the outline which forms the framework for each daily devotional, and a set of readings for each day Lent. Each person was asked to provide a reflection (around 500 words) as well as a prayer that relates to both the reflection and the set of readings. The result of their endeavours is what you will be reading for Lent.
When I first envisaged this booklet, I anticipated that, with such a diverse group of contributors, a wide range of voices would be heard. However, with the arrival of each contribution, I found quite the opposite; there seemed not be a multitude of voices but rather only One.
It is my hope that this booklet will assist you in preparation for Lent, but also allow you to experience a taste of, what is in my view, the rich diversity which exists within Christianity.
Ad gloriam Dei in eius voluntate
Lent 1
Ash Wednesday
Call to Prayer
O Lord, open our lips,
And our mouths shall proclaim your praise.
Still our minds and hearts
So that we may be open to your Word.
May your Spirit speak to us.
Readings
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12
Psalm 51:1-17
2 Corinthians 5:20b—6:10
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Reflection - Richard Haggis
It is human nature to judge. We judge a person’s looks, their clothes, their voice and accent, their education and background. And we think oh, you must be this-or-that sort of person
and decide whether, in principle we will like them or not. But a person who to me looks cute, may to you look dull; to me seem bright, to you seem cocky; to me seem refined, to you seem snooty. Not all of your friends can be my friends, nor mine yours. We judge, but we come to different verdicts.
The Bible is full of anxiety about judgement. There is even an Old Testament book called Judges
, in which the people of Israel do well under a good judge, and badly under a bad one. The prophets constantly pronounce God’s judgement on the people of Israel and their behaviour. But every so often we see a glimmer of something much more interesting. Our reading from Joel shows us that judgement by God is something to look forward to - for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love
. We’re not expecting this. Joel is telling us that being judged by God is infinitely better than being judged by the caprice and expediencies of human judges.
As we look forward to the season of Lent - and let’s look forward to it - our readings point us towards that merciful God, the God to whom we can confess our sins in penitence and faith, because all that we have done through negligence, through weakness, through our own deliberate fault
, he knows already and has forgiven.
But we in turn must forgive. That is Lent’s greatest challenge - not to give things up, but to grow into the most characteristic aspect of the God in whose image and likeness we are made - to forgive, as we are forgiven. For God’s sake. Amen.
Prayers for others
The Lord’s Prayer
In this season of Lent, give us your grace to grow in faithfulness, to show forth your love in the world, by word, and deed, and prayer, and to know your promise to be with us always, as a light in our lives, and the inspiration of our souls. Amen.