Reflections for Lent 2021: 17 February - 3 April 2021
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About this ebook
Each day includes:
• Full lectionary details for Morning Prayer
• A reflection on one of the Bible readings
• A Collect for the day
This volume offers daily material for 17 February to 3 April 2021, taken from the Reflections for Daily Prayer 2020/21 annual edition. It is ideal for individuals and groups seeking Lectionary-based reflections for use during Lent and Holy Week, or for anyone wishing to try Reflections for Daily Prayer before committing to a year's worth of material. It also features a simple form of morning and night prayer and a guide to Lent.
Guli Francis-Dehqani
Guli Francis-Dehqani is the Bishop of Chelmsford and formerly the Bishop of Loughborough. Prior to her ordination, she obtained a doctorate from Bristol University and worked as a BBC producer.
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Reflections for Lent 2021 - Guli Francis-Dehqani
Contents
About the authors
About Reflections for Lent
Lent – jousting within the self
MARK OAKLEY
Building daily prayer into daily life
RACHEL TREWEEK
Lectio Divina – a way of reading the Bible
STEPHEN COTTRELL
Wednesday 17 February to Saturday 20 February
MARK OAKLEY
Monday 22 February to Saturday 6 March
MARGARET WHIPP
Monday 8 March to Saturday 20 March
GRAHAM JAMES
Monday 22 March to Saturday 3 April
GULI FRANCIS-DEHQANI
Morning Prayer – a simple form
Seasonal Prayers of Thanksgiving
The Lord’s Prayer and The Grace
An Order for Night Prayer (Compline)
Copyright
About the authors
Stephen Cottrell is the Archbishop of York, having previously been 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.
Guli Francis-Dehqani was born in Iran but moved to England following the events of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Having studied music as an undergraduate, she worked at the BBC for a few years before training for ordination and completing a PhD. She was ordained in 1998 and has served as Bishop of Loughborough since 2017.
Graham James was Bishop of Norwich for almost 20 years until his retirement in 2019. Since then he has chaired the Paterson Inquiry, an independent inquiry for the Government on patient safety in the NHS and private healthcare. Earlier in his ministry he was Bishop of St Germans in his native Cornwall and Chaplain to two Archbishops of Canterbury. His most recent book is A Place for God about the relationship between location and faith.
Mark Oakley is Dean and Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and Honorary Canon Theologian of Wakefield Cathedral in the Diocese of Leeds. He is the author of The Collage of God (2001), The Splash of Words: Believing in Poetry (2016), and My Sour Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul (2019) as well as articles and reviews, usually in the areas of faith, poetry, human rights and literature. He is Visiting Lecturer in the department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London.
Rachel Treweek is 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.
Margaret Whipp is an Anglican priest and spiritual director based in Oxford. Her first career was in medicine. Since ordination in 1990, she has ministered in parish and chaplaincies and served in theological education. Her books include the SCM Studyguide in Pastoral Theology and The Grace of Waiting.
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 pages here-here) and a short form of Night Prayer, also known as Compline (see pages 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 – jousting within the self
It has been said that the heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart. Lent is time set aside each year to take this thought seriously.
A few years ago, there was a story in the papers about a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It is currently on display in Vienna’s marvellous Kunsthistorisches Museum, but Krakow’s National Museum claims it is theirs and that it was stolen by the wife of the city’s Nazi governor in 1939 during the occupation of Poland.
The painting is called ‘The Fight Between Carnival and Lent’ and it was painted in 1559. It is a beautifully typical Bruegel painting. It is a large, crowded canvas with nearly 200 men, women and children depicted on it. We find ourselves looking down on a town square during a riotous festival. The painting can be looked at