Category: Lent

Ash Wednesday Service

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Service will be held at 7pm in the Sanctuary on Wednesday February 13, 2013.  1200 Old Rixeyville Road, Culpeper, VA 20110.

The image below is by John Pobojewski and is available here.  He says, ““Remember That You Are Dust” is one of the most spiritually moving phrases that I have ever heard. Ash Wednesday has always been especially meaningful to me in how it expresses the most basic of ideals: that we will all rejoin the earth at the end of our days. While it feels very dark to think about death, the realization that we all will end up as dust is at once comforting and humbling.”

Image by John Pobojewski

Readings for April 1, 2012- Sunday of the Passion

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The first and second readings and psalm are the same this Sunday every year: Christ emptying himself of divine power and protection, willingly becoming vulnerable to those who struck him and put him to death. With Christ we lament his suffering and all human suffering, but expect God’s final vindication. Mark’s passion story begins with an unnamed woman anointing his head, perhaps to proclaim him Messiah, and Jesus saying she has anointed him beforehand for burial. Mark’s Easter story will begin with women going to anoint Jesus for burial, only to find that he has been raised, God’s living Anointed One.

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Readings for March 25, the Fifth Sunday in Lent

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God promises Jeremiah that a “new covenant” will be made in the future: a covenant that will allow all the people to know God by heart. The church sees this promise fulfilled in Christ, who draws all people to himself when he is lifted up on the cross. Our baptismal covenant draws us to God’s heart through Christ and draws God’s light and truth into our hearts. We see God’s heart most clearly in the way Jesus shares human suffering, in an agony both the John and Hebrews readings describe.

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Readings for March 4, the Second Sunday in Lent

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The second covenant in this year’s Lenten readings is the one made with Abraham and Sarah: God’s promise to make them the ancestors of many, with whom God will remain in everlasting covenant. Paul says this promise comes to all who share Abraham’s faith in the God who brings life into being where there was no life. We receive this baptismal promise of resurrection life in faith. Sarah and Abraham receive new names as a sign of the covenant, and we too get new identities in baptism, as we put on Christ.

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Lenten Prayer Series

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Join us each Wednesday evening during Lent for Soup Supper at 6:15 pm, followed by worship at 7pm.  All events are downstairs in the fellowship hall.

Feb. 29            Prayer beads               Colossians 1: 3-6

March 1          Centering prayer         Ephesians 6:18-20

March 7          Prayer for the world   1 Timothy 2:1-4

March 14        Prayer labyrinths        Philippians 4:6-7

March 21        Praying together         2 Corinthians 1:10-11

March 28        Prayer pretzels            1 Thessalonians 5:16-18