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Lenten Morning Communion: Screwtape Letters | Feb 19
Welcome Trinity Family and Friends!
This Lenten season, we invite you to pause, reflect, and look more closely at the everyday choices and habits that shape your faith. Our Lenten devotion series is centered on The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, a thoughtful and often humorous exploration of spiritual warfare and the Christian life.
Written as a series of fictional letters from a senior demon named Screwtape to his inexperienced nephew, Wormwood, the book presents faith from an unexpected perspective. Screwtape serves as a mentor in the “Lowerarchy of Hell,” offering advice on how to corrupt a human known only as “the Patient.” Through Lewis’s clever inversion, God is referred to as “the Enemy,” and what the devils call failure—the Patient growing in faith, hope, and love—is revealed as our true hope in Christ.
Throughout this series, we’ll reflect on how temptation most often works not through dramatic evil, but through subtle drift—distraction, pride, anxiety, church frustrations, self-righteousness, or even good things misused to draw our hearts away from God. Using Lewis’s insights as a guide, these devotions are meant to invite honest self-examination, repentance, and renewal.
Our prayer is that this Lenten journey helps us recognize the quiet battles of daily faith and remember that God’s grace is stronger than every scheme, and that we are ultimately held by Christ’s mercy.
For readers new to The Screwtape Letters, these terms may be helpful
Screwtape:
The senior demon and narrator of the book, Screwtape writes letters to his nephew Wormwood, coaching him in the art of temptation. He is cunning, manipulative, and delightfully sarcastic, always seeking ways to thwart the patient’s faith.
Wormwood:
Screwtape’s nephew and the book’s unseen junior tempter. Wormwood has been assigned to corrupt a particular human and is anxious for advancement in Hell’s hierarchy. He is inexperienced, eager, and sometimes clumsy in his efforts.
The Patient:
The human under Wormwood’s care and attack. Through the letters, we see the patient’s spiritual journey—his struggles, questions, growth in faith, and ultimate victory in Christ.
The Enemy:
Screwtape’s term for God. Everything the devils seek to undo—the enemy’s love, grace, forgiveness—are central to the Christian story.
Our Father Below:
A demonic way of referring to Satan himself, who rules over Screwtape and the other devils from the depths of Hell.
The Lowerarchy:
Hell’s rigid bureaucracy, filled with rival demons jockeying for power and influence.
Temptation:
The varied strategies the demons use to turn the Patient’s attention away from God or twist his good intentions into something self-serving or empty.
The Church:
From the demons’ view, both a battleground and an opportunity for mischief—its hypocrisies and failures are weapons, but its forgiveness and worship remain dangerous to their schemes.
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