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    Just in Time! Lenten Services
    Just in Time! Lenten Services
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    Just in Time! Lenten Services

    By Lucy Lind Hogan

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    Based on the Revised Common Lectionary and broadly ecumenical, this addition to the Just In Time! series provides: Sitting with the Text: Scripture commentary for each of the three lectionary years; Worship and Preaching Themes; Creating the Environment: ideas for decorating and preparing the worship space; Shaping the Worship Service: prayers, liturgies, dramas, music suggestions; Scripture Index; and more.
    Beginning with Ash Wednesday, Lenten Services aids the reader in planning and implementing transformative worship services throughout the Lenten journey.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2010
    ISBN9781426731877
    Just in Time! Lenten Services
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    Lucy Lind Hogan

    Lucy Lind Hogan is Hugh LatimerElderdice Professor of Preaching and Worship at Wesley Theological Seminary inWashington, D. C. Ordained in theEpiscopal Church, Lucy has taught at Wesley since 1987. She received her M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary and her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Communication from theUniversity of Maryland. Dr. Hogan is the past president of Societas Homiletica, the international homiletic society, and served as secretary of the North American Academy of Homiletics. Her books include Graceful Speech An Invitation to Preaching, Lenten Services, and a book she co-authored with Robert S. Reid, Connecting with the Congregation: Rhetoricand the Art of Preaching.

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      Just in Time! Lenten Services - Lucy Lind Hogan

      JUST IN TIME

      ___________________

      LENTEN

      SERVICES

      Lucy Lind Hogan

      Abingdon Press

      Nashville

      JUST IN TIME!

      LENTEN SERVICES

      Copyright © 2009 by Abingdon Press

      All rights reserved.

      Prayers may be reproduced provided the following credit line and copyright notice appear on each copy: "From Lenten Services by Lucy Lind Hogan. Copyright 2009 by Abingdon Press. Reproduced by permission." No other part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed to Abingdon Press, P.O. Box 801, 201 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37202-0801 or permissions@abingdonpress.com.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Hogan, Lucy Lind, 1951-

      Lenten services / Lucy Lind Hogan.

      p. cm. — (Just in time)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-687-65516-8 (binding: pbk., adhesive perfect : alk. paper)

      1. Lent. 2. Worship programs. I. Title.

      BV85.H633 2008

      264—dc22

      2008015356

      All scripture quotations unless noted otherwise are taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18—10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      For

      my Parents

      Wilfred and Margaret Lind

      and my Godmothers

      Geraldine Rogers and Lucy Gemlo

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Chapter One: The Journey to the Cross

      Forty Days of Purpose

      Preparation for Pascha

      Walking the Way of the Cross in the Fourth Century

      Walking the Way of the Cross in the Twenty-first Century

          The Journey—Instant and Immediate?

          Fasting—Watermelon and Candy?

          Preparing for Baptism

          Lenten Disciplines: Deeper and Deeper in Our Faith

          The Broken Made Whole

      Cleaning House—The Lenten Environment

      Fat Tuesday

      Using This Book

      Setting Off on the Journey

      Chapter Two: Ash Wednesday

      Beginnings

      Marked with Ashes

      Preparing the Ashes

      Sitting with the Text

      Worship and Preaching Themes

      Creating the Environment

      Shaping the Worship Service

          Music

          Opening the Service

          Service of the Word

          Confession and Pardon

          Imposition of Ashes

          The Peace

          Closing of the Service

      Chapter Three: First Sunday in Lent

      Teach Us to Pray

      Sitting with the Text

          Year A

          Year B

          Year C

      Worship and Preaching Themes

      Creating the Environment

      Shaping the Worship Service

          Music

          Opening the Service

          Service of the Word

          Confession and Pardon

          Dismissal

      Chapter Four: Second Sunday in Lent

          Follow Me

      Sitting with the Text

          Year A

          Year B

          Year C

      Worship and Preaching Themes

      Creating the Environment

      Shaping the Worship Service

          Music

          Opening the Service

          Service of the Word

          Confession and Pardon

          Closing Prayer

      Chapter Five: Third Sunday in Lent

      I Thirst

      Sitting with the Text

          Year A

          Year B

          Year C

      Worship and Preaching Themes

      Creating the Environment

      Shaping the Worship Service

          Music

          Opening the Service

          Service of the Word

          Confession and Pardon

          Closing the Service

      Chapter Six: Fourth Sunday in Lent

      Which Path?

      Sitting with the Text

          Year A

          Year B

          Year C

      Worship and Preaching Themes

      Creating the Environment

      Shaping the Worship Service

          Music

          Opening the Service

          Service of the Word

          Confession and Pardon

          Prayers

          Closing the Service

      Chapter Seven: Fifth Sunday in Lent

      Like Those Who Dream

      Sitting with the Text

          Year A

          Year B

          Year C

      Worship and Preaching Themes

      Creating the Environment

      Shaping the Worship Service

          Music

          Opening the Service

          Confession and Pardon

          Closing the Service

      Scripture Index

      C H A P T E R   O N E

      _____________________________________

      THE JOURNEY TO THE CROSS

      At the center of our lives as Christians are the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. At the center, therefore, of our worship together, spiritually, and very often physically, is the cross; the cross on which Jesus willingly gave his life that we all might have life and have it abundantly. The passion, death, and resurrection are also at the center of the church year. Every Sunday is a little Easter and the cyclical organization of the liturgical year focuses around the retelling of the Passion narrative and the surprising great good news of the Easter acclamation, Christ is risen; the Lord is risen indeed! Therefore, each year during Lent, we join Jesus on the journey to the cross, and it is a journey into which we all have been invited. Pick up your cross, commands Jesus, and follow me. It is the cross of love and discipleship, faithfulness and devotion, repentance and renewal.

      FORTY DAYS OF PURPOSE

      Evangelical pastor Rick Warren has had great success lately inviting individuals and congregations into forty days of purpose.During those forty days people are invited to reflect upon God's story and God's call to them and the meaning of their lives. Lent, however, is the original forty days of purpose. For most of its history, the church has understood Lent to be the time when people were called to do just that, reflect on the purpose of their lives in Christ, where they had gone astray, and how they might rejoin Jesus on the journey toward wholeness and fulfillment in God.

      In each community of the faithful we will find people at every stage of the Christian journey. Some are, to use Paul's image, milk Christians (see 1 Cor 3:2). New to the faith, they have yet to hear all of the gospel stories or to shape their lives in this way of the cross. Others, although they may have been a part of the community for a long time, have left the path of Christ for a variety of reasons. Wandering away, they are the lost sheep Jesus was sent to recover. And others, to return to Paul, are solid meat Christians. They are ready to explore and wrestle with the difficult questions. They want to know what it means to pick up their cross. They want to know who is their neighbor and how they might meet the needs of those neighbors. They want to deepen their life in the one who gave his life for them.

      As a part of its preparations for the glorious celebration of Easter, the church called for a period of reflection, renewal, penitence, and preparation. The forty days of Lent that begin with Ash Wednesday and culminate in Holy Week, the week of the Passion, are a time not only for those who are already Christians but also for those seeking to become the adopted children of God through baptism, to enter into this journey with Christ.

      In this book we will explore the nature and character of the worship and preaching of the services of Lent beginning with Ash Wednesday. How might we shape our prayers and our preaching in ways that will encourage reflection and preparation? How will we help our congregations to set off on the journey so that, as they arrive at Easter, they might fully join their voices with the witnesses in every generation who have joyously proclaimed that Christ is risen, and that they have seen the Lord?

      PREPARATION FOR PASCHA

      It took several centuries to arrive at a church year that looks something like the liturgical calendar that we follow today. For the first two centuries the focus was only on Easter or Pascha, which was tied to the Jewish observance of the Passover. It was during those events that Jesus had been arrested, tried, and crucified, and it was that story that the church told over and over again.

      The community knew that it was important to tell and retell the Pascha story of Christ's passion and resurrection each and every time they met. That story gave them their identity, their purpose, and their future. And, unlike their Jewish ancestors who celebrated the Passover but once a year, they quickly decided that they must celebrate their Passover through death into life each and every week.

      Sunday became the Eighth Day, the Day of the Lord, the day on which they told the story of the resurrection and shared the meal as Jesus had commanded them. It was the little Easter. Yet the yearly celebration of Easter was the center of the Christian year and all other seasons of the church year expanded from that day—to the fifty days of Easter, Pentecost, Christmas, and Advent.

      The Lenten period served several purposes. One was preparation for the

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