Essential Lenten Prayers
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Essential Lenten Prayers - Editors at Paraclete Press
INTRODUCTION
Lent is not only about giving things up. This is a time for refocusing and rededicating our lives. For Christians for millennia, Lent has been the most important season of life, much more vital, for instance, than Advent and Christmas, albeit with fewer celebrations.
For some Christians—St. Francis of Assisi, for example—Lent was so important that they would practice a period of Lent
more than once a year. Today, we can at least do it once a year, for forty days, and try to do our best to do it well.
Lent is all about the profound ways we are reminded each year to turn again toward God. We have wandered. Our attention has been divided. We have lost our focus, our will. We have not loved God and others as we should. We should use this time well. Prayer can help.
It is common to refer to Lent as a period of forty days, but in truth, it is that and more.
After Ash Wednesday—which is always Day One—Lent continues for forty-six days until Easter Sunday. These are days for prayer, spiritual discipline, self-denial, and reflection. We enter into this time in the spirit of walking together with Christ through his preparation, then his Passion, and toward the Cross and the Resurrection. These are days of our fullest expression of what it means to follow Jesus in everything.
We pray that these prayers, from Christian sources of many backgrounds, cultures, and traditions, will inspire and sustain you during this most important season.
—The Editors at Paraclete Press
Ash Wednesday
A PRAYER OF PERSONAL DEDICATION
Since we have made up our minds to devote this
brief period of time to him … let us
give it to him freely with our minds
unoccupied by other things.
We should make up our minds not to take
back the time we have committed
to him, no matter what kinds of trials
or annoyances we suffer.
Let me realize that this time is being lent to me and it is not my own.
I can rightly be called to account for this time
if I am not prepared to devote it
entirely to God.
—St. Teresa of Avila
The Purpose of Ashes
The words that the priest or minister usually says when applying ashes to our foreheads are similar to these that God said to Adam and Eve after they had sinned, when God was sending them out of the Garden of Eden:
You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
(Genesis 3:19)
A PRAYER FOR LOVING OUR DUST
Lord, I know I am dust,
Before Your mercy, and
I