Lent 2024

This year, during Lent, we will be intentionally focussing on the cross.

This is not the easiest path, yet the cross of Jesus is literally the crux of our faith. Everything hinges on it. We must contemplate its meaning and there is an over-abundance of meaning there.

But the cross can also appear totally void of meaning. In its original context it was an instrument of torture, terror, oppression, and death. This location of apparent senseless violence is hardly something we want to gaze at for too long.

Indeed, in our reading for the first Sunday of Lent, when Jesus spoke of his impending death, his chief disciple, Peter, would have none of it, rejecting that something like that could ever happen.

We can relate to Peter. We don’t want to think about the cross too much. It is too terrible, and yet it is front and centre in our sanctuaries and ought never be pushed off-centre from the life of following Jesus.

And so, during Lent, we will follow the following themes as we commit to contemplating the cross…

Weekly Lenten Themes

  • Feb 18 - The Cross: Earthly and Heavenly - Mark 8:31-38

  • Feb 23 - The Cross: Foolishness and Wisdom - 1 Corinthians 1:18-25

  • Mar 3 - Presbyterian World Service & Development Sunday led by Erin Whittaker

  • Mar 10 - The Cross: Dead and then Alive - Ephesians 2:1-10

  • Mar 17 - The Cross: Degraded and Glorified - John 12:20-33

  • Mar 24 - Palm Sunday: The Journey to the Cross

Some Lenten Devotional Resources

Our congregation is located in Winnipeg, which is on Treaty One Land, first entrusted by Creator God to the Anishinaabeg, Anishininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Denesuline, Cree, Nehethowuk nations, the homeland of the Red River Métis.