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    A Second Daily Reader for Lent: Daily readers, #2
    A Second Daily Reader for Lent - Illustrated Edition: Daily readers, #3
    A Daily Lent Reader: Daily readers, #1
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    Daily readers Series

    By Cameron Gordon

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    About this series

    This second Lent reader – as well as the first one, published separately – has grown out of my own Lenten practices and observances over the year. 

    ** This particular edition contains 28 additional paintings and drawings by the author not available in the text-only version of this book. **

    I wroteboth these readers because I would have found it helpful to have such a reader. I hope you enjoy and find the daily readings contained within helpful. And, of course, I hope your Lenten observations are just what you need them to be. 

    To me Lent is a time of 'wilderness work'. One goes in to one's own darkness and disorder, not to reject it, or deny it, but to sit with it.  It is tremendously uncomfortable, even frightening.  But out of this inner muck grows the soul.

    NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, the biblical quotations are from the New International Version (NIV) translation and are quoted under fair-use provisions of copyright law. 

    Also, this reader contains daily reflections for all days from Ash Wednesday through to Easter Sunday.  Different Christian traditions and denominations have somewhat slightly differing definitions of the Lenten period, sometimes excluding Sundays, sometimes including them, and often excluding the Holy Weekend containing Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  I have included every day so the reader may include and leave out days to fit their preferred practice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTallTelling Press
    Release dateFeb 25, 2019
    A Second Daily Reader for Lent: Daily readers, #2
    A Second Daily Reader for Lent - Illustrated Edition: Daily readers, #3
    A Daily Lent Reader: Daily readers, #1

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

      A Daily Lent Reader: Daily readers, #1
      A Daily Lent Reader: Daily readers, #1

      A Daily Lent Reader: Daily readers, #1

      Cameron Gordon
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      This book is written as a series of daily reflections for the season in the Christian calendar that is referred to as Lent. Lent is a time that commemorates the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist; the subsequent retreat of Jesus to the desert to face his three temptations by the devil; and then Jesus' return to Jerusalem, his death on the Cross (Good Friday) and his Resurrection on Easter Sunday. But what does it really mean to say that Christ is risen, and that he has died no more, nearly two millennium after the fact? How can one follow the teachings of a man who lived in a radically different society, so long ago, in a way that is relevant and meaningful today? The answer is to connect with those events as if they were happening today. That is the real potential power of the liturgical calender. In a superficial sense the calendar commemorates past happenings but it can be used as a daily practice. Living in the day is a way of eliminating time and history. After all, clocks and calendars are social conventions, useful but not fundamental aspects of the nature of reality. God's creation is eternal and past, present and future collapse into this present moment, always. Practicing Lent in one's daily life puts this on a human scale where the truth and reality of eternity can penetrate into daily consciousness. This daily reader is a tool to help with such a practice.

      This book is written as a series of daily reflections for the season in the Christian calendar that is referred to as Lent. Lent is a time that commemorates the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist; the subsequent retreat of Jesus to the desert to face his three temptations by the devil; and then Jesus' return to Jerusalem, his death on the Cross (Good Friday) and his Resurrection on Easter Sunday. But what does it really mean to say that Christ is risen, and that he has died no more, nearly two millennium after the fact? How can one follow the teachings of a man who lived in a radically different society, so long ago, in a way that is relevant and meaningful today? The answer is to connect with those events as if they were happening today. That is the real potential power of the liturgical calender. In a superficial sense the calendar commemorates past happenings but it can be used as a daily practice. Living in the day is a way of eliminating time and history. After all, clocks and calendars are social conventions, useful but not fundamental aspects of the nature of reality. God's creation is eternal and past, present and future collapse into this present moment, always. Practicing Lent in one's daily life puts this on a human scale where the truth and reality of eternity can penetrate into daily consciousness. This daily reader is a tool to help with such a practice.

    • 2

      A Second Daily Reader for Lent: Daily readers, #2
      A Second Daily Reader for Lent: Daily readers, #2

      A Second Daily Reader for Lent: Daily readers, #2

      Cameron Gordon
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      This second Lent reader – as well as the first one, published separately – has grown out of my own Lenten practices and observances over the year.  I wrote them both because I would have found it helpful to have such a reader. I hope you enjoy and find the daily readings contained within helpful. And, of course, I hope your Lenten observations are just what you need them to be. To me Lent is a time of 'wilderness work'. One goes in to one's own darkness and disorder, not to reject it, or deny it, but to sit with it.  It is tremendously uncomfortable, even frightening.  But out of this inner muck grows the soul. NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, the biblical quotations are from the New International Version (NIV) translation and are quoted under fair-use provisions of copyright law.  Also, this reader contains daily reflections for all days from Ash Wednesday through to Easter Sunday.  Different Christian traditions and denominations have somewhat slightly differing definitions of the Lenten period, sometimes excluding Sundays, sometimes including them, and often excluding the Holy Weekend containing Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  I have included every day so the reader may include and leave out days to fit their preferred practice.

      This second Lent reader – as well as the first one, published separately – has grown out of my own Lenten practices and observances over the year.  I wrote them both because I would have found it helpful to have such a reader. I hope you enjoy and find the daily readings contained within helpful. And, of course, I hope your Lenten observations are just what you need them to be. To me Lent is a time of 'wilderness work'. One goes in to one's own darkness and disorder, not to reject it, or deny it, but to sit with it.  It is tremendously uncomfortable, even frightening.  But out of this inner muck grows the soul. NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, the biblical quotations are from the New International Version (NIV) translation and are quoted under fair-use provisions of copyright law.  Also, this reader contains daily reflections for all days from Ash Wednesday through to Easter Sunday.  Different Christian traditions and denominations have somewhat slightly differing definitions of the Lenten period, sometimes excluding Sundays, sometimes including them, and often excluding the Holy Weekend containing Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  I have included every day so the reader may include and leave out days to fit their preferred practice.

    • 3

      A Second Daily Reader for Lent - Illustrated Edition: Daily readers, #3
      A Second Daily Reader for Lent - Illustrated Edition: Daily readers, #3

      A Second Daily Reader for Lent - Illustrated Edition: Daily readers, #3

      Cameron Gordon
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      This second Lent reader – as well as the first one, published separately – has grown out of my own Lenten practices and observances over the year.  ** This particular edition contains 28 additional paintings and drawings by the author not available in the text-only version of this book. ** I wroteboth these readers because I would have found it helpful to have such a reader. I hope you enjoy and find the daily readings contained within helpful. And, of course, I hope your Lenten observations are just what you need them to be.  To me Lent is a time of 'wilderness work'. One goes in to one's own darkness and disorder, not to reject it, or deny it, but to sit with it.  It is tremendously uncomfortable, even frightening.  But out of this inner muck grows the soul. NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, the biblical quotations are from the New International Version (NIV) translation and are quoted under fair-use provisions of copyright law.  Also, this reader contains daily reflections for all days from Ash Wednesday through to Easter Sunday.  Different Christian traditions and denominations have somewhat slightly differing definitions of the Lenten period, sometimes excluding Sundays, sometimes including them, and often excluding the Holy Weekend containing Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  I have included every day so the reader may include and leave out days to fit their preferred practice.

      This second Lent reader – as well as the first one, published separately – has grown out of my own Lenten practices and observances over the year.  ** This particular edition contains 28 additional paintings and drawings by the author not available in the text-only version of this book. ** I wroteboth these readers because I would have found it helpful to have such a reader. I hope you enjoy and find the daily readings contained within helpful. And, of course, I hope your Lenten observations are just what you need them to be.  To me Lent is a time of 'wilderness work'. One goes in to one's own darkness and disorder, not to reject it, or deny it, but to sit with it.  It is tremendously uncomfortable, even frightening.  But out of this inner muck grows the soul. NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, the biblical quotations are from the New International Version (NIV) translation and are quoted under fair-use provisions of copyright law.  Also, this reader contains daily reflections for all days from Ash Wednesday through to Easter Sunday.  Different Christian traditions and denominations have somewhat slightly differing definitions of the Lenten period, sometimes excluding Sundays, sometimes including them, and often excluding the Holy Weekend containing Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  I have included every day so the reader may include and leave out days to fit their preferred practice.

    Author

    Cameron Gordon

    I am creative fiction and nonfiction writer of plays, poetry and prose.  My themes are eclectic but the major ones include: the meaning and practice of daily spirituality; the human experience and how it is affected by an increasingly technocratic and technologized world; war and peace in the digital age; quirky narratives of quirky trips; and unusual bits of history.  I have training in a technical field and have had careers in government and academia.  I continue to practice as an independent scholar but have devoted the greater part of my time and energy to being an artist.

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