Lenten Series: Death and Dying Well

• Posted on March 16, 2025
• by Sarah Marino
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Lenten Series: Death and Dying Well

Tuesdays March 11th through April 15th
6:30-8:00pm – Tucker/Palmer Rooms

Lent is a season of humble reflection on our mortality in general and specifically the passion and death of Jesus Christ and how that speaks to our own lives and deaths. We begin Lent on Ash Wednesday with the words: “from dust you have come to dust you shall return” and 6 weeks later Lent closes with a remembrance of the removal of Christ’s lifeless body from the cross on Good Friday. The church is a unique place in our culture where death and dying is not avoided, denied, or even seen necessarily as a tragedy but held within community, ritual, and promise. 

We hope you will join us on Tuesday evenings during Lent for a light supper of soup and bread followed by reflections and conversations on death and dying well. These are the topics by date:

March 11 – Christian Theology on Death and the Afterlife

March 18 – Sharing personal experiences and perspectives on death; i.e. “Death Cafe”

March 25 – Crash course on Advance Directives with the President and CEO of Honoring Choices Massachusetts, Ellen DiPaola, JD.

April 1 – The Dying Process in our culture, what’s wrong with it and how to do it better.

April 8 – Considering your own funeral and what’s important to you.

April 15 – Jesus’ Dying and Death and what it says to us.

Please consider signing up to make a soup for one of the sessions by going to this link.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0945A5AF2BA5FCC43-55368014-lenten#/

Tags: lent, Tuesdays with Jesus