The Liturgical Season Of Lent Year A

February 22, 2023

This year the season starts on February 22^nd (Ash Wednesday) and ends on April 8^th (Holy Saturday). The traditional fast of 40 days does not include Sundays.

Purple is the season’s colour, though this gets complex near Easter. Red is used from Passion Sunday or Palm Sunday.

In other contexts there may be great wisdom in adopting Lent as an identifiable season of preparation for Easter. All of us need to sanctify our calendars and make clear that nothing in the winter and springtime of the year—not Valentine’s Day, not spring break, not March Madness, not even the hockey playoffs—is as important to our identity as Jesus’ death and resurrection. – John D. Witvliet

Readings

Lent
Year AFirst readingPsalmSecond readingGospel

Ash Wednesday February 22, 2023 ART — PRAYER	Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12	Psalm 51:1-17	2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10	Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
First Sunday in Lent February 26, 2023 ART — PRAYER	Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7	Psalm 32	Romans 5:12-19	Matthew 4:1-11
Second Sunday in Lent March 5, 2023 ART — PRAYER	Genesis 12:1-4a	Psalm 121	Romans 4:1-5, 13-17	John 3:1-17 or Matthew 17:1-9
Third Sunday in Lent March 12, 2023 ART — PRAYER	Exodus 17:1-7	Psalm 95	Romans 5:1-11	John 4:5-42
Fourth Sunday in Lent March 19, 2023 ART — PRAYER	1 Samuel 16:1-13	Psalm 23	Ephesians 5:8-14	John 9:1-41
Annunciation of the Lord March 25, 2023 ART — PRAYER	Isaiah 7:10-14	Psalm 45 or Psalm 40:5-10	Hebrews 10:4-10	Luke 1:26-38
Fifth Sunday in Lent March 26, 2023 ART — PRAYER	Ezekiel 37:1-14	Psalm 130	Romans 8:6-11	John 11:1-45
Liturgy of the Palms April 2, 2023 Sixth Sunday in Lent ART — PRAYER	&nbsp	Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29	Matthew 21:1-11	&nbsp
Liturgy of the Passion April 2, 2023 Sixth Sunday in Lent ART — PRAYER	Isaiah 50:4-9a	Psalm 31:9-16	Philippians 2:5-11	Matthew 26:14-27:66 or Matthew 27:11-54
	Italicized readings, complementary to the standard reading, may be used with, or in place of it.

Sources

Tissot, James Jacques Joseph, 1836-1902. Temptation in the Desert, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54304 Cropped
From the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0.
Lectionary from The Vanderbilt Divinity Library

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The Liturgical Season Of Lent Year A

Readings

Sources

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