A pilgrimage through Lent…

Join us as we engage on a daily pilgrimage through the season of Lent. In the Christian tradition, Lent is a season of reflection and finding strength within. Through this series of daily questions, we will go deeper into ourselves and our souls. Grab your journal and let’s do this!

Lenten Pilgrimage

February 14-March 31, 2024

Week 1

1. Today is both Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday (Christian, beginning of the season of Lent, a 40 day period of preparation before Easter). These holy days/holidays are celebrations of love. Where is love manifest in your life?

2. What is being initiated in your life at this time?

3. What knowledge are you seeking?

4. How do you practice ecological awareness?

SUNDAY: consider this a day of rest, take a walk, read a book, or do something that restores your soul!

Week 2

1. What news do you wait to hear? What changes will it bring?

2. Is envy of others obstructing your own achievement?

3. What messages are others trying to tell you?

4. What boundaries do you need to pass through?

5. What have you been struggling with and how does it challenge you?

6. How is beauty seeking to express itself in your life?

SUNDAY: consider this a day of rest, take a walk, read a book, or do something that restores your soul!

Week 3

1. Is complacency clogging up your life?

2. What do you most need and what help is at hand?

3. What significant patterns are emerging from the last year of your life?

4. What enslaves you and how can you be free?

5. Who are you trying to control?

6. What experience of life do you crave most?

SUNDAY: consider this a day of rest, take a walk, read a book, or do something that restores your soul!

Week 4

1. What message is your body trying to tell you?

2. What do you need to let go of and how is it impeding you?

3. What new concepts are coming to your understanding? How do theyaffect your present understanding?

4. Is your criticism undermining someone or something?

5. What needs clarification and what motivations underlie it?

6. In what areas do you need to rest and recover?

SUNDAY: consider this a day of rest, take a walk, read a book, or do something that restores your soul!

Week 5

1. What memories do you most appreciate?

2. What mutual burdens can you lift from other’s backs?

3. What are your dreams telling you?

4. How does your present way of life need to change?

5. What new influences are trying to come into your life?

6. What needs to be restored and appreciated?

SUNDAY: consider this a day of rest, take a walk, read a book, or do something that restores your soul!

Week 6

1. Which of your abilities are you neglecting?

2. Are you allowing spontaneity into your life?

3. Today is the spring equinox, when the hours of light and dark are

nearly equal. After today we will experience more hours of light. Today marks the first official day of spring. Stand out in the mid-day sun and contemplate today’s question: Where is Spring in your life? 

1. What intrigues about your life right now?

2. What strategies do you use for coping with change?

3. What are the gifts of your vulnerability?

SUNDAY: consider this a day of rest, take a walk, read a book, or do something that restores your soul!

Week 7

1. What is the religion of your heart? Of what factors is it comprised?

2. Who are your spiritual kindred? How have you recognized each

   other? What binds you in a common soul-bond?

3. What beneficial traditions have you inherited? How do they best 

    work now?

4. What, for you, are the gifts of being human?

5. What is your heart’s desire?

6. Make your own pilgrimage to a special or sacred place today. 

   Carry all the questions you have risked asking yourself during this virtual pilgrimage. What is emerging in your life as a result of this pilgrimage time? Make an offering of gratitude to this sacred land and to the Source for the wisdom you have gained.

EASTER SUNDAY: Meditate upon the earth as a holy place, and your own human state as a holy condition! Celebrate all that arose for you on your pilgrimage and create a ceremony to mark its completion.

Congratulations! We have made it to the end of this pilgrimage. What waits for us next? Stay tuned…

* The questions for reflection are taken from two books written by Caitlín Matthews:

Celtic Devotional: Daily Prayers & Blessings, Godsfield Press, © 1996

The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year, HarperOne, 

© 1999