Fr. Patrick Allen: Recalled to the Ordinary Things
This is the twenty-fourth in a series of daily Lenten devotionals by a group of Anglican bloggers and friends. Today’s entry is by Fr. Patrick Allen of the Mine Iron Heart blog. You can read other entries in the series here.

Excerpt: "Self-examination and repentance; prayer, fasting, and self-denial; reading and meditating on God’s holy Word. The thing that takes me aback is that these disciplines enjoined upon us as special emphases for Lent are not actually “special” at all. In fact, they are normal aspects of a normal Christian life, the bread and butter elements of Christian devotion. Or at least all previous generations of Christian believers would have recognized them so to be. Keeping a holy Lent is more a matter of getting back to basics than adding on spiritual booster rockets. And if these basics have become foreign and strange to us – well, that is something to ponder."

The rest at Lent and Beyond