Lent 2025

Happy Pączki Day everyone!

It feels like winter has broken and the coldest days of winter are behind us.  The days grow lighter and our clocks will spring forward an hour this Sunday.  Yet, the grass stays a muted brown and flowers have yet to poke their heads up.  Spring is not here, but we can feel it coming.

This Lent, we will be discussing dichotomies and the space in between the two extremes.  To do this, we will be using A Sanctified Art’s Lent 2025 curriculum Everything In Between - and the weather at the moment illustrates the core theme: there is space between the dichotomy between winter and spring.  We live in a world that loves to break everything into neat and tidy categories; but this Lent, we will break apart those categories to find all of the colorful space in between.

Here are a few things to pay attention to coming up:

Visio Divina Lenten Bible Study
Wednesdays at 10:30 in-person (lounge) and online
March 5 – April 16, 2025
“Visio Divina” is a play on the term “Lecto Divina.”  Lecto Divina – latin for “Divine Reading” – is a traditional monastic practice of reading scripture and meditating on it.  It is often practiced by reading the same scripture multiple times aloud, pausing each time to reflect and meditate on the words.  Playing on this idea, Visio Divina is the practice of reading scripture, looking at religious art, and meditating on the words and images.

This Lenten season, Pastor Shane and I will be co-hosting a Visio Divina Bible study where we will discuss the scripture and art for the following Sunday.  We will discuss words, language, and the history of scripture while also considering the principals of art and how artists use images and mediums to communicate a message.  No prep work is required since all scripture passages will be read as a part of the study.

So, join us in the lounge this Wednesday or on Zoom and enter into the world of language and art. **This Bible Study will NOT be recorded to be posted on YouTube.

Ash Wednesday Service
12:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 5
First Presbyterian Troy will hold an Ash Wednesday soup lunch and worship, with the imposition of ashes, at noon on Wednesday, March 5, to mark the beginning of the season of Lent.  All are welcome.

Blessings,
Pastor Chris