LENT

 

LENTEN PASTORAL LETTER

Read the Lenten Pastoral Letter from Fr. Bliss offering us an invitation into a gentle, intentional, and holy Lent.

LENTEN COMMUNAL PRACTICES

“All May, None Must, Some Should”

  • Praying Compline

    M, T, W, R @ 8:00pm

    End your day in prayerful stillness this Lent by joining us for Compline, a short and peaceful night prayer from the Church’s ancient tradition. Together, we’ll rest in God’s presence, offering our worries and weariness before sleep, trusting in His watchful care.

  • Healing Eucharists

    Wednesdays @ 12:15 pm

    Join us each week for a Healing Eucharist, a time to bring our burdens before God and seek His mercy, restoration, and peace. Whether you come in need of prayer or to stand in intercession for others, you can also submit a prayer request through the button below.

  • Nehemiah Action

    April 8 @ 6:30 pm

    Join us for the Nehemiah Action at Charlottesville High School. As one of our Shalom Partners, IMPACT brings congregations together to seek justice and the common good—come stand in solidarity as we work toward real, lasting change in our community. More information on IMPACT and their work below.

LENTEN PRAYER ROOM

The All Souls youth ministry is putting together a Prayer Room for the wider community of All Souls during one week of Lent. If you have never experienced a prayer room before, it is an interactive space designed to help people pray. The room will be filled with prayer stations, and will engage with music, art, maps, objects, and much more. The goal of prayer is communion - the experience of being with God, of delighting and being delighted in. We are challenging every member of All Souls to spend 1 hour in the prayer room this year. 

The Prayer Room will be open from Monday, March 24, through Saturday, March 29, 9:00am-9:00pm. To register for a time slot, simply complete this registration, and you will receive a confirmation email with a link to our Prayer Room signup. 

We're excited about how this opportunity might shape us as a people. 

Personal Lenten Practices

  • Hospitality

    welcome and be welcomed

    This practice is to make at least one effort a day toward intentional welcoming to someone else as well as to accept someone else’s welcome. This can be something as simple as letting someone help you carry something or hold a door open for you.

  • Restoration

    listen and notice when you’re being listened to

    This practice is to give extra attention to the hospitable act of listening with the hope of understanding another’s point of view or experiences. It’s also an invitation to notice when someone is offering that same kind of space to you. Christians' reputation in the listening category is similar to mutual hospitality.

  • Shalom

    co-labor

    This practice is to intentionally work with someone(s) for a common good. It can be helping someone with homework, some kind of application, or anything else. Living into the first two practices of hospitality and restoration will increase our opportunities to work with people if we’re committed to these ways of being in the world.

“Lent is a time of joy-creating sorrow—a sorrow that does not leave us in despair but leads us back toabundant life in God.

— Archbishop Kallistos Ware