Lent Archives - Epiphany Seattle

Second Sunday in Lent: Sermon Summary and Reflection Questions

News | March 16, 2025

Kate’s sermon calls us into a season of lament, the sacred practice of crying out to God when faced with pain or suffering. She shares the image of Jesus lamenting over Jerusalem, expressing his sorrow for a people who reject God’s love. Jesus compares himself to a mother hen longing to gather her children under

First Sunday in Lent: Sermon Summary and Reflection Questions

News | March 9, 2025

In his sermon, Doyt reflects on how the meaning of symbols changes over time, focusing on the Cross and the Temple as examples of that transformation. He explains how Jesus redefined the meaning of the Temple, shifting it from a physical building to humanity itself—our hearts and our lives—as the place where God resides. This

Sundays in Lent: Christian RELATA

News | February 12, 2025

Dear Epiphany, I would like to invite you to register for Christian RELATA in this season of Lent. This series takes place on the six Sundays of Lent (March 9, 16, 23, 30, and April 6 and 13) from 10:00 – 11:00 am in the Great Hall and it is for everyone from age 12

Pray Seattle’s 40 Days of Lent: Epiphany’s Pilgrimage

News | February 5, 2025

Epiphany will participate in Pray Seattle’s 40 Days of Lent citywide effort this year, an urban prayerful pilgrimage journey across Seattle. In conjunction, Elizabeth Roberts has curated a 40-day pilgrimage for Epiphany, with parishioners leading twelve separate in-person opportunities. We invite you to join us. This program begins on Ash Wednesday, March 5 and concludes

Lent with Intent

News | February 17, 2023

Lent is a season of self-reflection and spiritual growth that lasts for 40 days before Easter Sunday. But why? Why do we mark this season? The answer lies in the the story we tell throughout the liturgical year: If Christmas was our celebration of the Incarnation, then Lent is the time we live into its

Adult Formation in Lent

News | March 9, 2022

March 13, 20, 27, & April 3, 10 | Great Hall & Zoom Lent is a season when Christians traditionally choose a spiritual discipline to practice, which we hope will draw us closer to God. We often think of this as a time of deprivation and sacrifice, but experimenting with spiritual disciplines can be

Our Ancestor was a Wandering Foreigner

Sermon | March 6, 2022

“Arami Oved Avi” (Ah-RAM-ee Oh-VED Ah-VEE) or, as we heard it in the reading from Deuteronomy, “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor.” Today’s Old Testament lesson contains a phrase we might be tempted to skip over. After all, it sounds a lot like one of those “begat” sections of the Bible, and in any case,

This Lent: Epiphany’s Catechumenate

News | February 19, 2022

Adult Baptism and Confirmation Class March 2 | 6:00 – 7:15 pm March 13, 20, 27 & April 4, 10 | 4:00 – 5:15 pm Christie House Library As Lent approaches, I want to invite you to consider being part of the catechumenate. It is a word for the ancient time of Christian instruction

Homily for the Feast of the Annunciation

News | March 25, 2021

Society teaches us to set our sights on a goal and to organize life around the achievement of that goal, in the same way that you might choose a point on a map and then plan a route to arrive there. What happens if we take away the goal, and put down the map, and

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