The Lent and Easter/Pentecost Seasons
Lectionary Preaching Workbook, SERIES II
for use with Common, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic Lectionaries
This is the season which celebrates the heart of the Christian faith: the life, suffering, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. During the previous cycle of Advent and Christmas/Epiphany we celebrated the Incarnation in which "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." (John 1:14) Now we are focusing on the Atonement by which God in Christ has made us at-one with him by grace through faith. God sent forth the Son in the fullness of time to suffer and die for our sins and to be raised for our salvation.