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Are you looking for material to study in group during Lent? Reflections for Lent contains six weeks of notes taken from the annual edition of Reflections, covering Ash Wednesday to Easter Saturday. It’s ideal for individuals or groups seeking to follow the Lectionary for a shorter period of time. Also includes a simple form of daily prayer.

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Biblical Meditations

Philosophie et théologie

Religion

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Publié par	Hymns Ancient & Modern
Date de parution	30 novembre 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781781401552
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Contents
About the authors

About Reflections for Lent

Lent – a season of healing and hope
DAVID HOYLE

Building daily prayer into daily life
RACHEL TREWEEK

Lectio Divina – a way of reading the Bible
STEPHEN COTTRELL

Wednesday 26 February to Saturday 7 March
STEVEN CROFT

Monday 9 March to Saturday 21 March
CHRISTOPHER HERBERT

Monday 23 March to Saturday 4 April
LUCY WINKETT

Monday 6 April to Saturday 11 April
JOHN PRITCHARD

Morning Prayer – a simple form

Seasonal Prayers of Thanksgiving

The Lord’s Prayer and The Grace

An Order for Night Prayer (Compline)
About the authors
Stephen Cottrell is the Bishop of Chelmsford. He is a well-known writer and speaker on evangelism, spirituality and catechesis. He is one of the team that produced Pilgrim , the popular course for the Christian Journey.

Steven Croft is the Bishop of Oxford. He was previously Bishop of Sheffield and team leader of Fresh Expressions. He is the author of a number of books including The Gift of Leadership and Pilgrim Journeys .

Christopher Herbert was ordained in Hereford in 1967, becoming a curate and then Diocesan Director of Education. He was an incumbent in Surrey and later, Archdeacon of Dorking. Appointed Bishop of St Albans, he retired in 2009.

David Hoyle is the Dean of Westminster. As a priest, he has worked in a Cambridge College, in a London parish, as Director of Ministry in the Diocese of Gloucester and as Dean of Bristol. He is the author of the acclaimed The Pattern of Our Calling on ministry and, more recently, A Year of Grace on the seasons of the Church’s year

John Pritchard was Bishop of Oxford from 2007 to 2014. Prior to that he was Bishop of Jarrow, Archdeacon of Canterbury and Warden of Cranmer Hall, Durham. His only ambition was to be a vicar, which he was in Taunton for eight happy years. He enjoys armchair sport, walking, reading, music, theatre and recovering.

Rachel Treweek is the Bishop of Gloucester and the first female diocesan bishop in England. She served in two parishes in London and was Archdeacon of Northolt and later Hackney. Prior to ordination she was a speech and language therapist and is a trained practitioner in conflict transformation.

Lucy Winkett is Rector of St James’s Church, Piccadilly. She contributes regularly to Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’ and is the author of Our Sound is our Wound . She is a Governor of The Queen’s Theological Foundation Birmingham and is on the board of The National Churches Trust. Until 2010, she was Canon Precentor of St Paul’s Cathedral, and in 2012 was awarded an honorary doctorate from Winchester University.
About Reflections for Lent
Based on the Common Worship Lectionary readings for Morning Prayer, these daily reflections are designed to refresh and inspire times of personal prayer. The aim is to provide rich, contemporary and engaging insights into Scripture.

Each page lists the lectionary readings for the day, with the main psalms for that day highlighted in bold . The collect of the day – either the Common Worship collect or the shorter additional collect – is also included.

For those using this book in conjunction with a service of Morning Prayer, the following conventions apply: a psalm printed in parentheses is omitted if it has been used as the opening canticle at that office; a psalm marked with an asterisk may be shortened if desired.

A short reflection is provided on either the Old or New Testament reading. Popular writers, experienced ministers, biblical scholars and theologians contribute to this series, all bringing their own emphases, enthusiasms and approaches to biblical interpretation.

Regular users of Morning Prayer and Time to Pray (from Common Worship: Daily Prayer ) and anyone who follows the Lectionary for their regular Bible reading will benefit from the rich variety of traditions represented in these stimulating and accessible pieces.

The book also includes both a simple form of Common Worship: Morning Prayer (see here – here ) and a short form of Night Prayer, also known as Compline (see here – here ), particularly for the benefit of those readers who are new to the habit of the Daily Office or for any reader while travelling.
Lent – a season of healing and hope
Lent plunges us into the consideration of our own sinfulness, and that is a serious business. Fifteen hundred years ago, penitents would have been visible. They might wear sackcloth, made of goat’s hair because a penitent is not a sheep belonging to Christ’s flock. They might be sprinkled with ashes, a sign that they were dead, like Adam. That little smudge of ash on our foreheads in this liturgy is a slight and bare echo of all that. It is just a whisper on the breeze that sin is deadly and sin is public.

That is an idea we struggle with, because we think of sin as personal. We think of sin as something extra, something that we do, something that we add on. The mistake we make is to think that sin comes from a careless encounter we might have with ‘bad things’. So, sin is an extra helping of sticky toffee pudding, a second bottle of Château Langoa Barton. Sin, we think, comes from wanting too much sex, or too much money. Sin is an extra relationship, a bit, as the saying goes, ‘on the side’. That does not sound all that serious. All this talk of the threat from ‘bad things’ implies that repentance has something to do with giving up what we have added on. Lent, then, becomes no more than a season without chocolate hobnobs.

Sin is not like that. Sin is not like that at all. In the first place, there are no bad things. God, remember, made all that is and made all things good . We do not have a problem with bad things; we have a problem with desire. If I want a bottle of Château Langoa Barton, I really do not want a bad thing. My problem comes when I want it more than I want other things . If I want this claret more than I want conversation and company, if I want it more than I want food or exercise, my desire for this one good thing is out of proportion and it is dangerous. The problem, oddly, is not that I want too much (something extra); the problem is that I want too little . Shutting the door, drawing the curtains and clutching my glass of claret, I want too few of the gifts that God will give me, and I am diminished. Sin is not something extra; sin is always loss. It makes us less than we should be. When Thomas Aquinas wrote about sin, he called it ‘a privation of form’. He wanted us to know that it makes us diminished.

We generally assume that sin is extrovert, the cheerful and tipsy host, a crowd enjoying a shared malice. In truth, sin is lonely; it isolates us. Sin destroys relationship. Sinners are the people who know what they want, and they want only that. Notorious sinners are not lovers, husbands, mothers or friends (or at least, they are very bad lovers and friends); clinging greedily to their longing, they are utterly isolated. Sin does terrible harm to us and also disrupts community. That is why the Church has insisted that repentance and restoration should, properly, be public.

Sin really is deadly and public. We have begun to understand that some sins are obviously public. We know that we poison our own wells by polluting our world; we buy goods that have to be made, by children, working for pennies. Those are clearly public sins . We need to recover our sense that all sin has a public consequence. What may feel private and personal actually corrodes relationship and makes us less than we should be. In a chilling moment in C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce , a proud sinner sounds more and more strident, more and more insistent, and with each sentence actually shrinks in size – real humanity withering before us. The person finally disappears; only the sin is left.

It is in church and in our engagement with faith and Scripture that we regain community and recover relationship.