Lent 2026 Horologion Capstone

Tuesday, 4:46 PM EST. Earlier today, I posted Jonathan's Lent 2026 Horologion on my new ancillary blog, Jesus with Jonathan. This horologion feels a bit overwhelming at the moment, but it's important that I answer God's call as best I can and learn from my charisms and my shortcomings along the way. I've been chipping away at this old blog for almost eleven months now. My Lent 2026 Horologion is in some ways a capstone synthesis of everything I have learned since I posted A Simple Spring Beginning back on 28 March 2025. In other ways, it feels like the foundation stone of the next phase of my discernment journey. Let's call it a rung in the ladder of my new monastic ascent. Let's call it rung five, taking 2022 as the first celibate chaste rung in my climb. 

The key point for me to remember is that February 2026 was a turning point in my monastic journey, highlighted by the Leo Full Moon at 5:09 PM EST here in Albany on Saint Brigid's Eve, with Jupiter in Cancer high above. Now, I will be spending from 3:15 PM until 5:45 PM every day over the next 46 days - until Easter Sunday, 5 April 2026 - bringing this blog (New Monasticism with Jonathan) into alignment with the insights contained in Jonathan's Lent 2026 Horologion. At least on the days when I am not overcome by sin, trial, or temptation.   

My next step is the creation of a summary page on this blog titled Jonathan's Horologion. I am not sure that I need to distinguish between a horarium and a horologion just yet. But I do need to lay out a summary of my watch system. It occurs to me that I should stop striving for an ideal division of my day into seven watches, allow for more watches than that, and begin to focus on a stand-alone "Stewardship of the Gates" watch from 3 PM to 6 PM, a stand-alone watch of the Evening Examen from 6 PM to 7 PM, and a stand-alone watch of the Polis from 7 PM to 8 PM. Let's see what clarity, if any, God sends on these points over the next few days.