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Order your 2018 UCC Lenten Devotionals Now

2/5/2018

 
Journey through Lent with the UCC Stillspeaking Writers group. We've ordered a few copies of this year's devotional book. If you'd like one, please contact the church office. The cost for each book was $5 and you can reimburse the church as you are able. An excerpt from the Lovers and Fools, the 2018 Lenten Devotional: 

"If you're beginning this devotional on Ash Wednesday, (February 14) you may have noticed how hard it was to get a dinner reservation after worship. If you look ahead to Easter, (April 1) you'll find it's also doing double duty. 

As Christians, we always live between two calendars. We celebrate a new year in November. We're confused when our pastor insists on green paraments for the first week in July, not red, white, and blue. We set aside this season for solemn study and reflection, and to the rest of the world it remains six ordinary weeks between Valentine's and April Fool's Day. 
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How then should we observe this crowded season? What does Lent have to do with lovers and fools?"
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