Lenten Litany
During Lent we wander, as though through a wilderness
with our ancestors in the faith, with Christ to the cross.
We come face to face with our sin.
We see starkly our needs and those of our neighbors.
Yet we are never alone.
We journey with God’s sure and certain promises.
I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.
So shall your descendants be.
The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand
and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground
that you, O Lord, have given me.
O God, you are my God. I seek you; my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters,
and you that have no money, come, buy and eat!
The manna ceased on the day they ate the produce of the land,
and the Israelites no longer had manna;
they ate the crops of the land of Canaan that year.
The 40 days of Lent are a journey with promise:
God’s promises of the full table, the salvific cross and the empty tomb.
Thanks be to God!
