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Anyone planning on reading anything special for Lent? I am planning to read the book of Job.
I am going through 2 Corinthians to focus on depending on Christ for enduring comfort.
 
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I have a new book I’ve been meaning to read so Lent ought to be a good motivator. It’s called ‘Echo’ unbroken truth. Worth repeating again. By Pr. Jonathan Fisk (LCMS)
 
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The Archbishop came to visit me as I convalesced over the last few weeks and left a couple of volumes on my desk. They are both concerned with the Apocrypha. I've also got Martin Chemnitz's "Commentary on the Council of Trent" in two volumes.

In past years I have read The Shepherd of Hermas (I would not be offended if that volume had been included in the NT canon). I have also read Benedict XVIs "Jesus of Nazareth." One year I was really high on Benedict and read a couple of shorter volumes of his collected sermons, mostly on the Eucharist or the Sacraments more generally.
 
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I must admit that I find, with all the extra busy-ness of the parish in Lent and all the rest, more reading is the last thing I find helpful. My head already feels like it has too much in it. I am blocking out more quiet time with God, for my own prayer and reflection, but I haven't added to my reading beyond what I'll need for preparing Lenten studies and a quiet day.
 
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I must admit that I find, with all the extra busy-ness of the parish in Lent and all the rest, more reading is the last thing I find helpful. My head already feels like it has too much in it. I am blocking out more quiet time with God, for my own prayer and reflection, but I haven't added to my reading beyond what I'll need for preparing Lenten studies and a quiet day.

I am totally with you on that one! I am reading a Richard Rohr book, but that is because it is the basis of an adult study I'm putting on for Lent...which starts tomorrow...uh oh!
 
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The Archbishop came to visit me as I convalesced over the last few weeks and left a couple of volumes on my desk. They are both concerned with the Apocrypha. I've also got Martin Chemnitz's "Commentary on the Council of Trent" in two volumes.

My pastor gave me a translation of ones of his works years ago when I was an inquirer. His scholasticism is definitely not light reading!
 
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I must admit that I find, with all the extra busy-ness of the parish in Lent and all the rest, more reading is the last thing I find helpful. My head already feels like it has too much in it. I am blocking out more quiet time with God, for my own prayer and reflection, but I haven't added to my reading beyond what I'll need for preparing Lenten studies and a quiet day.
That is great. Sometimes we have a tendency to allowing our service to the Lord distract us from being with the Lord. You know, the whole Martha/Mary situation.
 
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Anyone planning on reading anything special for Lent? I am planning to read the book of Job.
I usually read the four Gospels, CS Lewis’ Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship. I am going to try to get through those again this year, as well as St. Paisios of Mt. Athos’ Spiritual Counsels.

Edit: sorry, I didn’t realize this was in the Anglican subforum. As I am no longer Anglican, I can delete if you would like.
 
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I've decided I'm having a very low-key Lent this year- I am not planning on even going to vespers or fasting, it just doesn't feel right, and at any rate, my digestion doesn't tolerate it anymore very well (I can't eat lots of vegetables or bread without getting bloating).

Maybe I will rewatch Babette's Feast, I have not seen that in years. It's a good film and worth watching, if you have not seen it. Very uplifting, and maybe a message some people need to hear. It's easy to get lost in the allure of spirituality, and hard to learn to appreciate things and let go of bitterness and regrets, and I remember that is a theme in the story.

Another film that always "re-centers" me is Lars and the Real Girl. It's another meditative film, and I think its one of the better films with a "spiritual" theme, even though religion only plays a minor role in the film. Both films are meditations on love and hospitality.
 
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