March-April 2025

Dear All Saints’ Family and Friends,

You will probably receive this newsletter during the early days of March. It will also be the beginning of Lent – a time for self-reflection, penitence, and preparation. Our journey through Lent toward Good Friday and Easter is also a way toward a closer and deeper relationship with God who travels with us.

Beginning with Jacob – the “wandering Aramean” – some of the readings appointed for the Sundays in Lent tell stories of men and women who have journeyed with God. Their faith sometimes wavered as they faced challenges along the way. However, we see that God remained faithful to the promises and covenants he made. Lent, then, is also a time of hope and growth as we learn to depend more on God’s steadfast grace and mercy.

Join us in-person or online for services on the Sundays in Lent and during Holy Week. All Saints’ will also hold the 2025 Lenten Series via Zoom on Wednesdays from March 12 through April 9. The theme is, “A Way in the Wilderness: Where God is Present, Protection, Providing.”  The sessions will be led by members of our parish. Also, via Zoom, we will pray the Stations of the Cross on Fridays beginning on March 7. Please visit our website (allsaintsbaldwin.org) for links and other details.

A Prayer at the Start of Lent:

Creator, Sustainer and Savior,

You lead us through the late winter wilderness of Lent. 

As we trudge through the stuff of our lives,

show us, guide us, and remind us of your presence. 

Help us to see and praise you in, around and through our days. 

Connect us to you in our experience as we walk toward the veiled cross. Amen.

~ posted on Signs Along the Way.

I pray that you will have a holy Lent and a blessed Eastertide when it comes.

Yours in Christ,

The Rev. Maxine Barnett, Rector