As the global Church enters into the penitential season of Lent, we at M25i desire to walk with Jesus and be shaped by His heart for justice, mercy, and for those overlooked among us. For the next forty days of Lent, we invite you to come with us on a journey to discover the heart of God as revealed in Isaiah 58: true fasting.

Won’t you join us?

Rend Your Heart, by Jan Richardson

  • Biblical Foundations: caring for those who are trafficked, in poverty, food insecure, unhoused, and displaced. Connecting the dots with our times.

  • Learn and Lean In: a guide to increase our literacy on these topics

  • Contemplative Activists: stories of prayerful good samaritans in Church history

  • Anglicans on the Street: real stories of local and global examples of Anglicans drawing near to those Christ loves right now

  • Creative Prayer: we cannot carry these topics on our own shoulders, so we offer exercises to allow God to shape our hearts towards trust

Day 3 : A Look at What’s Ahead

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 6:33

Sanctuary, by Trygve Skogrand

Notice in this piece how Skorgrand is engaging his goal of his art, "the meeting of the sacred and the temporal." Imagine how his art might be shaped as he was originally educated and worked as a Civil Engineer in city planning before training as a visual artist. As God's people, we are all called to this "meeting" of Christ in the grit of the world. 

"Shalom is both God's cause in the world and our human calling."

Nicholas Wolterstorff

On this journey through Lent, we will take time each week to learn about some of our fellow Anglicans who are doing this work of "true fasting":

"to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them..." Isaiah 58: 7

We will grow to better perceive poverty and vulnerability in our own setting, and we will get glimpses of the many faithful Anglicans who have encountered such suffering in their contexts, both globally and around North America. We will be inspired by how their awareness of the physical and spiritual needs around them leads them to respond with grace and mercy. With more than 80 million Anglicans worldwide, we are a powerful community that can make a big difference in the world.