Enter into Lent prepared for transformation. In this new liturgical devotion, New Wine , you are invited to pray with the theme of being crushed as a grape to be made into wine. Meditate on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, pray with corresponding Scripture passages, enter into our writer’s stories, and sit with sacred art. Pray a guided Rosary weekly and chant the Salvete Christi Vulnera hymn. Let this be the Lent you are transformed by Our Crucified Lord. The crushing and the pressing and clarifying are making us new. You are becoming new wine. In your suffering, in your pain, in your sorrow, He is making you new. // Jenna Guizar Ash Wednesday week // Change // shedding the old wineskins Week 1 // Surrender // the harvesting Week 2 // Anguish // the crushing Week 3 // Torment // the pressing Week 4 // Humiliation // the fermenting Week 5 // Carrying // the clarifying Holy Week // Sacrifice // the aging Easter Octave // New Life // becoming the New Wine Sundays // We sit with a long Scripture passage for the Mystery of the Rosary and theme for the week and ponder two questions. Mondays // We pray the ancient prayer of lectio divina , slowly savoring a portion of Sacred Scripture from our Sunday offering. Tuesdays // We hear from our story tellers about when they were pressed and experienced struggles according to the week’s theme. Wednesdays // We pray visio divina , spending time in prayer with sacred art in the form of stained glass windows from around the world. Thursdays // We hear from our story tellers about when they experienced the new wine, the transformation of God’s will in their lives according to the week’s theme.
Enjoyed the personal stories tied to the themes to Lent as well as the reflections, very helpful for this Lenten season. I did like the female perspective, many stories were so relatable.