Lent 2024:

Planting the Seed of Joy

Opportunities to Learn & Worship at St. Alban’s

  • Mar 24 10 a.m. Palm Sunday

    Mar 28 7 p.m. Maundy Thursday with foot-washing,

    Mar 29 12 p.m. Station of the Cross

    7 p.m. Good Friday

    Mar 31 9 a.m. Easter Sunday Service #1 , followed by the Easter Egg Hunt

    11:15 a.m. Easter Sunday Service #2

  • 2/18 Who’s “We”?

    2/25 How We Read the Bible

    3/3 How We Worship

    3/10 How We Make Decisions

  • 2/18 In the Beginning: The Basilica of the Annunciation & Bethlehem

    2/25 The History of Holy Week (Meet Egeria) & Bethphage (Palm Sunday)

    3/3 The Upper Room & the Garden of Gethsemane (Maundy Thursday)

    3/10 The Via Delarosa (Good Friday & The Stations of the Cross)

    3/17 The Holy Sepulchre (Easter Vigil/Easter Sunday)

 Opportunities to Learn at Home

  • Joy is more than an abstract concept. It appears in our lives in concrete, perceptible ways. The three cornerstone spiritual disciplines of Lent are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. In these devotions, the three Lenten disciplines become practices of joy.

    Download it at: https://www.stalbansaustin.org/s/Tending-Joy.pdf

  • This Illustrated Lenten Spiral will guide you, your family, and your community through the Season of Lent with activities, family questions, inspiring nature walks, and feast days to enjoy together.

    The password for each of the files is galaxyspiral

    • Full-color 11x17 version: illstrtdm.in/LentenSpiralColor

    • Black-and-white 11x17 version: illstrtdm.in/LentenSpiralBW

  • The theme for 2024 is Practicing Forgiveness with All Your Heart, Soul, Strength, and Mind.

    Download the booklet for free or purchase an e-book or paper copy or sign up for daily emails: https://www.livingcompass.org/lent

  • Reflect on your newness in Christ as you journey through Episcopal Relief & Development's Lenten Meditations, written by Miguel Escobar, author of The Unjust Steward: Wealth, Poverty, and the Church Today.

    https://www.episcopalrelief.org/church-in-action/lent/

  • This offering includes a diverse range of reflections, creative exercises, and journaling prompts designed to help individuals discover a more centered and peaceful life. Join author and educator Roger Hutchison to explore how we learn to see again through the broken places in our difficult and holy lives. Thursdays, February 15-March 21, 2024, 7:00 p.m. eastern. REGISTER HERE

  • This Lent, UTO (United Thank Offering) invites you to reflect on the ordinary things in your life and give thanks for them. Sign up to receive one text a day (and nothing more!) prompting you to notice small things in your daily life that you may not notice otherwise.

  • IN THE MIDST meets us where we are: in this world marked by our mess, fear, despair, violence, and death. Can it be true that God is here, in our experience of pain and grief? Join the Brothers of SSJE in this five-part exploration of the invitation that waits in even the hardest, messiest parts of life.

    Sign up to receive weekly meditations

  • Review the 2024 bracket in advance, make your selections, and then come here every day of Lent to keep up with your favorite saint.

    Get a blank bracket to print at home HERE