The Episcopal Church of the Ascension - Hickory, North Carolina
Forty Days: A Journey Through the Desert of Lent
Sun, Mar 30
|Hickory
This series uses short films to reflect on poems for Ash Wednesday, Lent, and Holy Week. In the discussion following each, we will have time for reflection, discussion, and entering into places of our hearts we might not often journey.
Time & Location
Mar 30, 2025, 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Hickory, 726 1st Ave NW, Hickory, NC 28601, USA
About the Event
Before there is light, there is darkness. Before there is birth, there is pain. Before every meaningful moment, there is a time of preparation and a time of longing.
Lent is the 40 days that we set aside to enter into the wilderness of our souls and find that place of quiet, openness, and emptiness. Lent is more than about self-denial and giving up indulgences, it is about preparation and encounter. It was in the desert where Jesus encountered the demons of his deepest temptations, but it was also where he found God’s sustaining presence and love.