Lent 2025: Ash Wednesday
- Evan Taylor
- Mar 5
- 2 min read
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
“If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.
The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land…"
Isaiah 58:6-11 NIV
March 5, 2025
Ash Wednesday
Breath Prayer
Inhale: Lord Transform my hunger
Exhale: Let my desire be for justice.
Reflection Questions
What practice of solidarity with suffering are you choosing?
What needs do you need met during this Lenten season?
Rev. Cozette Thomas
Executive Minister, Metropolitan AME Church
Lenten Guide 2025
We are heirs who have witnessed the beginning of a new year. Our new year began with a bevy of storms; climatic, political, physical, emotional. There is a song that begins, “Though the storms keep raging in my life and sometimes it’s hard to tell the night from day…” The chorus ends with, “My soul has been anchored in the Lord.” Those words should be a mantra for us as we traverse the storms we’re witnessing this New Year; wildfires, unusual snowstorms, climate changes, changing administrations, plane crashes, upheavals, homelessness, deaths, destruction, mental and emotional concerns.
Yet, there is Lent, that time of year we seek renewal, repentance, revival. We acknowledge our sins, indiscretions, weaknesses (especially those we resolved to give up at the beginning of the New Year). Now we call on our anchor, replay Jesus’ crucifixion, but rejoice in the knowledge of His resurrection, our salvation.
Dr. Yvonne L. Bolling
Director of Christian Education
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Tune into Morning Meditations at 7am each morning, Read the guide along with us each day, share in community with us during the Lenten season on our collective journey and/or download the book to read and reflect along with us individually.
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