Lenten Series at Grace Episcopal Church

Each year on the first Sunday of Lent we read the Gospel story of the three temptations of Christ in the wilderness after his baptism.  Have you ever examined them closely? Have you ever read or seen art or literature based on these temptations? These questions and more are the theme of this year’s Lenten Study Program at Grace Episcopal Church.  The program will meet on Tuesday evenings from 7-8:30 p.m. at Grace

Episcopal Church, 150 Chapel Street.  Attend one or all the sessions.  All

sessions are free and open to the public.  The topics for each

weekly session are listed below.

March 11: What do the Gospels of Mark,

Matthew, and Luke tell us about the temptations? How are they similar; how are they different?

March 18: What can we tell about the

temptations from Anne Rice’s 2008 novel, The Road to Cana? (to prepare, please read a section from her book)

March 25: What can we tell about the temptations from Norman Mailer’s 1999

novel, The Gospel According to the Son?

April 1: What can we tell about the temptations from Mennonite John Howard Yoder in his 1994 The Politics of Jesus?

April 8:  What can great works of art by Tintoretto, Botticelli, Durer and even the contemporary comic book presentation by an Episcopal priest, Earnest Graham, tell us about temptations?