The Salutary Gift: Lent Meditations on the Lord's Supper Devotional

Within the solemn halls of the Lenten season, Christians gather around God's Word in repentance of sins, preparation for recalling their Savior's sacrifice, and thanksgiving for the crucifixion's redemptive power. The theology of the Lord's Supper mirrors this Lenten pilgrimage in many ways.

In these daily devotions, readers arrive at a deeper appreciation of the Holy Meal instituted by Christ through a study of Scripture and both ancient and modern hymns. Each theme reveals a host of approaches to understanding the same gift: life-giving fruit, nourishment, healing, communion with the saints, rest, a priestly meal, the feast of victory, and more.

Every day of Lent, meditate on and embrace these beautiful, biblical images and metaphors of the Lord's Supper in addition to the chief blessing and description of this Sacrament in Scripture: the forgiveness of sins. The forgiveness of sins, won for the world on Calvary and offered in the Sacrament of the Lord's body and blood truly makes this blessed Supper a "salutary gift."