Created for Community: A Midweek Lenten Series
During Lent, we are reminded that we enter this season together “with the whole church” and that “we are created for communion with God, to love one another, and to live in harmony with creation.” Though many common Lenten practices rightly invite us to individual acts of “repentance, prayer and fasting, sacrificial giving and works of love,” Lent is also a time for deepening of community.
This year, using readings from Mark’s gospel, this series invites the assembly to reflect on what it means to be in community with one another, with the world, with creation, and with God. As we reflect on what it means to be in community each week, we ask you to pray for the businesses and non-profits of the Ortonville area. Even though we will not name them all during the prayers, a copy of this list will be kept on the Altar and prayed over each week. Please keep a copy for yourself to continue this practice at home.