{"id":838,"date":"2015-02-18T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/?p=838"},"modified":"2018-01-17T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:49:49","slug":"starting-today-god-invites-you-to-a-holy-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"God invites you to a holy Lent \u2022 Dios te invita a una santa Cuaresma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rev. Amy Welin:<\/strong>Starting today… God invites you to a holy Lent.<\/p>\n

God invites you for the next 40 days to a season of self-examination, service, repentance, forgiveness, prayer, fasting, self-denial and the regular reading and meditating on God’s Word.<\/p>\n

God invites you to choose quiet over chaos, home over haste, selflessness over self-obsession, generosity over greed.<\/p>\n

God invites you to go to the hard places all around us in the name of Jesus.<\/p>\n

God invites you to make friends of people who regularly suffer dignity violations in our culture.<\/p>\n

God invites you to live differently for the next 40 days — not because we’re good people or striving to be good people, but because we are followers of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

God invites you to live closer to the words we pray each week in worship.<\/p>\n

I invite you to join me in this so we might make a good, new beginning with God, with our neighbors and with ourselves.<\/p>\n

A blessed Lent to you.<\/td>\n

<\/td>\nLa Rev. Amy Welin:<\/strong>Desde hoy … Dios te invita a una santa Cuaresma.<\/p>\n

Dios te invita para los pr\u00f3ximos 40 d\u00edas para una temporada de auto-examen, el servicio, el arrepentimiento, el perd\u00f3n, la oraci\u00f3n, el ayuno, la abnegaci\u00f3n y la lectura regular y meditaci\u00f3n de la Palabra de Dios.<\/p>\n

Dios te invita a elegir tranquilidad lugar de caos, descansar en vez de la prisa, el desinter\u00e9s en lugar de auto-obsesi\u00f3n, la generosidad en lugar de la codicia.<\/p>\n

Dios te invita a ir a los lugares dif\u00edciles que nos rodean en el nombre de Jes\u00fas.<\/p>\n

Dios te invita a hacer amigos de las personas que sufren regularmente violaci\u00f3nes de dignidad en nuestra cultura.<\/p>\n

Dios te invita a vivir de forma diferente para los pr\u00f3ximos 40 d\u00edas – no porque seamos buenas personas o tratando de ser buenas personas, sino porque somos seguidores de Jesucristo.<\/p>\n

Dios te invita a vivir m\u00e1s cerca de las palabras que rezamos cada semana en nuestra adoraci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

Les invito a unirse a m\u00ed en esto, as\u00ed que podr\u00edamos hacer una buena, nuevo comienzo con Dios, con nuestros vecinos y con nosotros mismos.<\/p>\n

Bendito Cuaresma para ustedes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

(From a Facebook post by the Right Rev. Robert Wright, Bishop of Atlanta)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sermon for February 18, 2015 (Ash Wednesday)
\nSerm\u00f3n del 18 de febrero 2015 (Mi\u00e9rcoles de Ceniza)<\/font>
\nRev. Amy Welin:<\/strong>
Starting today… God invites you to a holy Lent. God invites you for the next 40 days to a season of self-examination, service, repentance, forgiveness, prayer, fasting, self-denial and the regular reading and meditating on God’s Word. Desde hoy … Dios te invita a una santa Cuaresma. Dios te invita para los pr\u00f3ximos 40 d\u00edas para una temporada de auto-examen, el servicio, el arrepentimiento, el perd\u00f3n, la oraci\u00f3n, el ayuno, la abnegaci\u00f3n y la lectura regular y meditaci\u00f3n de la Palabra de Dios.<\/font> Read More \u2022 Lea m\u00e1s <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,274],"tags":[56,117,106,210,118,116,234,107,114,104,105],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sermones","category-sermons","tag-ash-wednesday","tag-cuaresma","tag-episcopal","tag-iglesia-de-san-juan","tag-lent","tag-rev-amy-welin","tag-saint-johns","tag-sermon","tag-sermones","tag-st-johns","tag-waterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5146,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/5146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}