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Lent 2023

The holy season of Lent begins February 22, 2023 with Ash Wednesday.

The first of the forty days of Lent, Ash Wednesday is named for the custom of placing blessed ashes on the foreheads of worshipers at Ash Wednesday services. The ashes are a sign of penitence and a reminder of mortality, and may be imposed with the sign of the cross. Ash Wednesday is observed as a fast in the church year of the Episcopal Church. The Ash Wednesday service is one of the Proper Liturgies for Special Days in the BCP (p. 264).

The final week of Lent is known as Holy Week. We observe Palm Sunday (April 2, 2023), Maundy Thursday (April 6), Good Friday (April 7), and Holy Saturday (April 8) with services that provide a liturgical experience of the last days of Jesus' earthly life, as well as the time and events leading up to his resurrection. The BCP provides special liturgies for each of these days. Holy Week ends at sundown on the Saturday before Easter (April 8), or with the celebration of the Easter Vigil.

We are gathering special resources and events here to help you observe a Holy Lent. If you have information you would like to share on this list, please send it to communications director Janis Greenbaum.

Resources:

  • Episcopal Church 2023 Lenten Resources
  • Episcopal Relief & Development Meditations
  • Building Faith: Resources for children’s, youth, adult, or parish-wide programs for Lent and Holy Week

Events:

  • Preview Night for Online Lenten Bible Study
    from the National Suicide Prevention Network
    Feb. 13 / 6:30 p.m.
  • Virtual Lenten Bible Study: Healing and Understanding the Suicidal Crisis
    from the National Suicide Prevention Network
    Begins Feb. 27 / 6:30 p.m.
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Walking humbly with God and our neighbors, we seek justice, act with love, and live the Good News of Jesus.


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The Rt. Rev. Deon K. Johnson is the leader of our diocese. He was elected as our bishop on Nov. 23, 2019, and ordained on June 13, 2020, at Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis.

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Approximately 10,000 people throughout Eastern and Central Missouri find their faith home with us. About three-quarters of our members are in the metro St. Louis area, but our diocese reaches much farther than St. Louis. You will find more than 40 Episcopal churches, missions and faith communities as far north as Kirksville, as far west as Columbia, and as far south as Poplar Bluff (and many points in between).

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