Ash Wednesday

Wednesday, March 5

Service Bulletin for Ash Wednesday

The Right Reverend Russell Kendrick joined us as Celebrant and Preacher

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season

To view the service, please click this link.

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Episcopal Relief and Development Sunday

Sunday, March19

The first Sunday in Lent is the day officially designated to encourage all Episcopalians to remember and support Episcopal Relief & Development’s (ERD) life-saving mission. On the ministry table we have ERD envelopes and boxes available for you or your children to use for a Lenten offering. 

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Formation   

Lent and Holy Week Adult Class

Wendesdays in Lent beginning on Ash Wednesday, March 5 through April 9

On Wednesdays in Lent, we’ll gather in the Chapter House after the early evening Ash Wednesday and weekly Service of Simple Presence to share soup and bread and delve into the history and development of the “new” 1979 prayer book and our Holy Week liturgies.  Bring your prayer book, or we’ll have others available for this deep dive into our identity as Episcopalians.  The adoption of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer caused quite a stir in The Episcopal Church. What made it so revolutionary was, among other things, seeking to return to authentic practices of the early church. We didn’t do this in a vacuum; there was an ecumenical Liturgical Renewal Movement that saw Baptism restored to being full and complete Christian Initiation.  Fourth century Holy Week liturgies were brought to be our contemporary praxis.  Come learn more about the “whys” and “hows” of our prayer book and to deepen your experience of Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. 

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The Dean's Bible Study: Paul's Letter to the Galatians

Wednesdays at noon in the Chapel or Via Zoom

Dean Gibson facilitates this reading of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians.   The class will run through Wednesday, April 9.  A reading and lesson guide will be emailed and posted on the website each week.

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Adult Inquirer's Class

Four Sundays during Lent

March 9, 30, April 6, 13 at 11:15 a.m. in the Huger Meeting room

For those who want to join the Episcopal Church and for those who are interested in learning more. 

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Youth Affirm Class with Dean Gibson

Sunday evenings March 16, 23, 30 at the Watkins Home

Dean Gibson will meet with Youth grades 8 and above to talk about Lent, Holy Week and Easter.  

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Diocesan Lenten Book Study

Inspired: Slaying Dragons, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans

Beginning March 3 you are invited to download a study guide and weekly links to join Episcopalians across our diocese to help us delve deeper into our understanding of scripture.  All of the information is at  www.diocgc.org/inspired.

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The Journey through Lent

Journey through Lent, illustrated posters are available on the ministry table

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Forward Day by Day

Please explore the many daily devotional materials on their website. ​

 

​Lenten Youth Devotional

d365 is an online daily devotional series. Providing devotions written especially for students, this online resource reflects on themes that impact our faith journeys.  There are several ways to access the series for Lent and the rest of the Church Year.  You may download the app, follow on FaceBook, or go to their website and click the links.

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Youth Confirmation Classes

Meeting once a week for 90 minutes beginning Sunday, March 9, and running for six weeks through the week of Sunday, April 27.  Students grade 7 and up are invited to join the class to either lead to Confirmation or to learn more about The Episcopal Church.  The Confirmation Class will meet in-person to study the lessons from I Will with God’s Help, a program based on the Baptismal Covenant.  Our Catechist is Carolyn Jeffers.  Please contact her (cjeffers@christchurchcathedralmobile.org) if your child would like to join.​​

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Episcopal Relief and Development 2025 Lenten Meditations

This Lent, “let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet  together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”                                                   Hebrews 10:24-25
Join writer Jerusalem Jackson Greer this Lent as she encourages us to partake in “A Commonplace Lent.”

Click here for all the information.

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Reading Luke Together During Lent

During Lent this year our youth confirmands will be reading their way through Luke’s gospel and discussing it together. In support of and solidarity with them, everyone in the Cathedral Family is invited and encouraged to read Luke as a Lenten devotional and discipline.

To support you in your reading, we will be sending a daily email (six days a week, Monday-Saturday) containing a small portion of the gospel for each day. As Luke is the gospel contained in the Daily Office this season, you may also find devotional resources online through “Forward Day by Day.” You might also like to order A Journey with Luke: The Fifty Day Bible Challenge ed. Marek P. Zabriskie (Forward Movement, 2015), which contains daily readings, reflections, questions for consideration, and prayers.

This is a simple yet profoundly meaningful way for the entire Cathedral Family to journey through Lent together.

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