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2023 Lenten Meditations

This Lenten Season, Episcopal Relief & Development invites you to join us as we meditate on the commandment to love our neighbor and consider the meaning of this fundamental instruction in our daily lives.

The Rev. Robin Denney, a parish priest and former missionary focused on agricultural development in Liberia and South Sudan, wrote this year’s meditations. Robin’s reflections are poignant and personal and challenge the reader to consider the question, “Who is my neighbor?”.

February 26 – March 4

We are called to care for creation. How do we overcome the temptation to have creation serve our needs?

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Have you taken on a Lenten discipline this year? What is it? Why?


Send your own reflection to lmresponses@episcopalrelief.org to share with our online community. Please limit your response to two or three sentences.

I'm collecting leftover food for composting. Americans waste about 40% of our food. This waste releases methane when sent to landfills.

—Mary B.

I have many friends who do a sober January after much indulgence over the holiday season. I like to do a sober Lent. It often reveals new learnings about how much I depend on something outside of myself to cope with the hard things or as an "easier" way to connect.

—Tamara P.

My Lenten discipline is to pray the Daily Office every day, whether that’s Morning Prayer, Midday Prayer or Compline. I find that this centers me each day and makes me more intentional about how I live. Forward Movement has an app that I like. It’s so easy to use!

—Eleanor W.

I plan to connect each week with someone I haven't connected with in a while— for a conversation, coffee, or meal. God built us to be in relationship with each other, and I want to strengthen my relationships.

—Josephine H.

I'm collecting leftover food for composting. Americans waste about 40% of our food. This waste releases methane when sent to landfills.

—Mary B.

I have many friends who do a sober January after much indulgence over the holiday season. I like to do a sober Lent. It often reveals new learnings about how much I depend on something outside of myself to cope with the hard things or as an "easier" way to connect.

—Tamara P.

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