Lenten Observance at St. Alban’s
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Browse the opportunities for prayer, fasting, and almsgiving below.
Add a practice that helps you stay grounded in God, or remove an obstacle that keep you from feeling connected to God.
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To mark the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, we’ll be discussing these words we use every Sunday to reaffirm our faith. This will take place in the parlor after the service.
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Join us in the church for a service of night prayer, a place of peace, rest, and calm.
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Tom and Julie’s Monday night group will be reading The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin through Easter Eyes by James Alison. Contact Janessa for the Zoom link.
Please note: No one is required to read aloud or participate in discussion; listeners are always welcome.
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We will gather online via Zoom to discuss the 2025 Lenten Devotional from Living Compass- Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit In Heart, Soul, Strength, and Mind. We will have 25 booklets available to pick up. You can also download the pdf or receive it as a daily email.
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Apr 13 10 a.m. Palm Sunday (Youth Sunday)
Apr 17 7 p.m. Maundy Thursday with foot-washing,
Apr 18 12 p.m. Station of the Cross
7 p.m. Good Friday
Apr 20 9 a.m. Easter Sunday Service #1 , followed by the Easter Egg Hunt
11:15 a.m. Easter Sunday Service #2
Opportunities to Pray
Living Well through Lent 2025
Embark on a transformative Lenten journey exploring different fruit of the Spirit each week: faithfulness, peace, joy, generosity, patience, and love. This devotional offers daily reflections and “making-it-personal” questions.
Pick up one of the 25 copies we ordered, download the free PDF file in English or Spanish, or sign up to receive it as a daily email.
40 Days of Welcome & Gratitude
UTO has partnered with EMM (Episcopal Migration Ministries) to present this call to give thanks for the ways we are welcomed in the world and the ways that people offer welcome to us and to our communities.
Download a calendar of daily prompts in English or Spanish. There is also a family version in English or Spanish.
Ashes to Rainbows
This devotional features an array of voices and perspective and thought-provoking theologies, and a new way to think about the time in which we call Lent. Go on this Lenten journey to reflect, challenge, and await the resurrection of the Christ who loves us all…no matter who God created us to be. Recommended by TransEpiscopal.
A Commonplace Lent
This Lent, “let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:24-25).
Download the meditations or sign up to receive them as daily emails.
Opportunities to Fast
Iftar Dinner-Sunday Mar 16
Learn about Muslim fasting practices by attending an Iftar Dinner that the Dialogue Institute will host at St. Alban’s. There will be a presentation and then a dinner for conversation with our Muslim neighbors.
Kitchen Meditations: Diet Culture
American Christianity is, in some ways, responsible for shaping larger cultural trends, and in other ways has been deeply shaped by them rather than by historic Christian methods of thinking about the body. This is a series from Kendall Vanderslice of Edible Theology.
What does it mean to fast?
We want to move away from food-related fasting because it is often moralized as “good” in ways that can be messy at best and harmful at worst. These days there are other things that distract us staying focused on God and the purposes of God.
Opportunities for Almsgiving
Austin Jews & Partners for Refugees
Volunteer opportunities are posted on the portal HERE. You can join the Moving Team, Transportation Team, ESL Team, help with cultural orientation or organize outings.
Other ways to help: Buy supplies for welcome baskets and essential needs, donate Furniture, donate toward the resettlement efforts
Casa Marianella
Casa Marianella welcomes displaced immigrants and promotes self-sufficiency by providing shelter and support services.
Help residents get on their feet by donating, volunteering directly, or helping with Go and Do Likewise so they can settle into more long-term housing.
Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center
Sunrise is the largest network of support bringing whole-person solutions to the whole-person trauma of homelessness.
Volunteer with them to learn more about the comprehensive services they provide to homeless individuals and families in and around Austin.