That's what you're asked to give beginning the Sunday before Ash Wednesday (February 26), and through to Easter Sunday (April 16).
The left-hand page is like a buffet table with a variety of items: Catholic traditions and customs, the saint of the day, historical tidbits, and other information. This year, we will particularly look at prayer, which is one of the three Lenten traditions and practices (the other two are almsgiving and fasting).
The key is the right-hand page. Each day (except Sundays) we'll walk a few verses at a time through the Passion according to John.
This provides the framework for you to enjoy one of the Church's oldest traditions of prayer - called "lectio divina" (sacred reading). In this form of prayer, we take a Scripture passage and spend some quiet time reading it with God at our side. We listen for God to speak to us through the words, guiding us to thoughts and reflections that sometimes seem to come from nowhere.
People are often surprised at how easy it is to pray this way.
We won't start reading the Passion until Ash Wednesday. But we'll start the six-minute program on Sunday, February 26, which will give us three days to get ready for Lent.
- Diocese of Saginaw
Little Black Books will be available this weekend after all Masses. They will also be available in the parish office or can be purchased from http://www.littlebooks.us/.