Lent 2024 begins on Ash Wednesday, February 14, and continues until Easter Sunday, March 31. The following e-courses are in Spirituality & Practice's on-demand system, which means that you study independently and schedule the pace of the course yourself; there is no Practice Circle for sharing with others taking the e-course. Once you subscribe, go to your account page and choose a start date and how often you want to receive the emails. Below you will see a recommended schedule for aligning the sessions with the Lenten season.
- Practicing Spirituality with Jesus - Lenten Edition
by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Many diverse perspectives on the man from Nazareth, by Christians and people from other spiritual traditions — who all agree that we can practice what Jesus preached and modeled.
(46 sessions. Recommended schedule: Daily starting Wednesday, February 14, 2024.)
- Practicing Spirituality with Edward Hays - Lenten Edition
by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Concrete and simple ways to connect with the Divine in the midst of our hectic and hurried lives, through the teachings of an ordained priest who was a storyteller, artist, and the author of more than 35 bestselling books.
(46 sessions. Recommended schedule: Daily starting Wednesday, February 14, 2024.) - The Spirituality of the Gospels
by Thomas Moore
Fresh interpretations of intelligent, challenging, and inspiring gospel texts, from the psychotherapist, former monk, and writer of popular spiritual books, including the New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul. Includes links to archived recordings of 4 short audios and 3 short video "classes" from Thomas Moore on key themes in the Gospels.
(46 sessions. Recommended schedule: Daily starting Wednesday, February 14, 2024.) - Mystical Hope Today
by Cynthia Bourgeault
A deep dive for Lent to discover the mysterious, replenishing hope already available to us. Bougeault explores how things like resilience, forgiveness, trust, courage, and commitment are not the fruits of hope but the wellsprings of it and the route by which we must travel to find our way back to the fountainhead.
(18 sessions. Recommended schedule: MWF starting Wednesday, February 14, 2024.) - Guidelines for Christian Life, Growth, and Transformation
by Contemplative Outreach and Fr. Thomas Keating
A Lenten practice of Lectio Divina using 42 guidelines for the Christian spiritual journey from Fr. Keating's seminal book Open Mind, Open Heart.
(46 sessions. Recommended schedule: Daily starting Wednesday, February 14, 2024.)
- World Wisdom
by Rami Shapiro
Passages to reflect upon from the mystic heart of the world's religions.
(46 sessions. Recommended schedule: Daily starting Wednesday, February 14, 2024.)
- Nine Promises of Lent
by Jay McDaniel and Patricia Adams Farmer
Inspiring offerings for Lent from the standpoint of process thought. McDaniel and Farmer write and teach with a vision of the universe as a network of creativity and inter-becoming; and of God as relational, loving, present with us in the darkness, and always luring us towards fresh forms of new life.
(20 sessions. Recommended schedule: MWF starting Wednesday, February 14, 2024.)
- The Grace of Lent
by Contemplative Outreach
The course aims to create a Lenten atmosphere of silence, stillness, and a quiet inner joy of alert receptivity. You are encouraged to partake of the particular beauty of the season viewing Lent itself as an artful preparation to a slow and sustained intentional journey where the heart is awakened into a new life in and through divine love.
(20 sessions. Recommended schedule: MWF starting Wednesday, February 14, 2024.)