The Matthew 25 Initiative, a Ministry Partner of the ACNA, has made a Lent Devotional available for download:

“This free, guided resource is designed to help individuals and parishes enter deeply into the season of repentance, prayer, almsgiving, and embodied love of neighbor, as we follow Christ toward the cross and resurrection.

“During Lent, we follow the way of Christ, the Good Shepherd, who walks into dark and forgotten places — the alleys, prisons, fields, and sickbeds of the world — and brings light. This same light has shone through followers of Jesus across centuries, through tangible evangelistic love that fed the hungry and visited the lonely in the earliest Christian communities. Without wealth or status, they revealed the kingdom by showing up for ‘the least of these.’

“Nineteen centuries later, that same light glowed in Victorian Britain through the imagination of George MacDonald — a Scottish professor, author, and mentor to C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. In his novels, MacDonald named the brokenness of his age: hungry children, impoverished widows, forgotten workers, and those cast out by society’s fears. Through stories of redemption and kindness, he invited readers not just to see the poor but to love them — to become light-bearers themselves.”