Everything you need to guide your community through a meaningful Lenten season.
This Lent, Church Anew looks at a kaleidoscope of stories from the Book of Acts, with Revised Common Lectionary suggestions paired with the theme. Explore the ways the Spirit alters perspective, transforms communities, and consistently blazes a trail ahead. Catch up with the work of the Holy Spirit, finding people:
Follow this theme through Holy Week, with:
Maundy Thursday: Love Altered // Good Friday: Violence Altered // Easter: Life Altered
Wandering Heart: Figuring out Faith with Peter
This Sanctified Art series focuses on the life and faith of Peter, in whom we see a person who is both steadfast and unsteady, a dear friend and a betrayer, a follower and a wanderer. In Peter, we often see ourselves. By following Peter’s journey, we watch the story of Jesus unfold through the eyes of a very normal human trying to figure it all out just like us.
Highlights include:
A Sanctified Art offers a slew of resources from liturgical elements, preaching prompts and study guides for Lent-Easter, Year B; check out their blog for some great worship and faith formation ideas.
Have Mercy from The Many releases on Ash Wednesday and includes their commissioned theme song for A Sanctified Art's, Again and Again; along with 3 other songs, Quiet Places, Do Not Fear, and Lamb of God. Go to their website or follow them on Spotify.
A Sanctified Art created a blog post of their best Lent, Holy Week, and Easter resources - that could be meaningful any year, no matter your theme - including: Stations of the Cross, Holy Week liturgies with madras or poetry, Easter worship art, etc.
On Not Taking Lent out on Our Bodies
By Jodi Belcher (she/her/hers) in Building Faith on Feb 07, 2023
Free Resource from Rev. Micahel Mulberry (UCC): Ash Wednesday to Earth Day Source Book available HERE.
Central to the Lenten study are three actions:
1) Ash Wednesday Action (February 22): call a fast from credit cards held by the four major banks funding fossil fuels/climate disaster: includes links to Stop the Money Pipeline materials for talking to branch managers. Sarah Lasoff, rabbi in a Florida Jewish synagogue in Florida who has spoken to over 13 bank managers provides training materials. The credit card fast lasts until Tuesday, March 21st.
2) Dis-credit Bad Banks Day of Action put forward by Third Act Day on March 21st. Again, an invitation to talk to bank managers seeking transformation. We model persistence and relationships.
3) Finally, with the possibility of no action, there is a Foot-Washing Liturgy and Jericho Walk that can be done on Maundy Thursday (April 6th) or on Earth Day, (April 22nd).
Within the pages are also creation centered Lectio Divina and examen and creation music playlists. I also included within the folder creation-centered baptism and communion liturgy.
Please let Mike know if you use it (mmulberry@gmail.com ) and/or with any questions.
Lent in a Box from Church Anew
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
PRELUDE TO EASTER: A sun-drenched worship film that sets the story of salvation inside a Victorian-inspired shadow box theatre.
The Iona Community offers numerous resources: Lenten devotionals, liturgies for Ash Wednesday, Mothering Day, Earth Day, and Holy Week to Easter; at-home family activities, and more, including seasonal liturgical resources and a slough of other downloadable liturgical elements.
The Worship Guidebook for Lent and the Three Days is a treasure trove of insights, images, and practical tips to deepen worship from Ash Wednesday to Easter. The Music Sourcebook expands the repertoire of resources for song from Ash Wednesday to Easter.
offers several Lenten film series:
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark: Everything Gets Birthed in the Dark (a six-session visual liturgy Lent series) and Lent Films: The Fruitful Darkness.
The Four Gospel Journey: The Christ Journey of Love, Growth and Transformation
Selected films for Maundy Thursday through Good Friday and Easter films
and many more
From The Plural Guild:
An Interactive Journal on Christian Social Justice
For Ash Wednesday, the six Sundays of Lent, and Easter Sunday, we provide you with the following:
These Lenten and Easter liturgies are written to connect with An Illustrated Lent for Families: This is My Body, and our This is My Body Lenten Devotional (both the Illustrated and Text-only editions) for a fully This is My Body-themed Lent. At the same time, these liturgies can be used by themselves, apart from the other materials.
This is Sanctified Art's bundle of 11 multimedia ministry resources for the season of Lent–Easter, following the RCL for Year A. Download the free theme infographic to learn more about the theme, Seeking. Each resource is also available separately. Learn more here; scroll down and click the “Resource Details” buttons to learn more about each individual resource.
Note: All resources are digital files.
Film Meditations for the Season of Lent and Easter from The Work of the People
Our Whole Hearts from Rev. Elsa Anders Cook
Includes:
*WEEKLY PRAYERS for Ash Wednesday and the five Sundays of Lent
*QUESTIONS FOR THE HEART for reflection and meditation
*PREACHING INSPIRATION with a wide variety of books, essays and podcasts
*MUSIC AND ART INSPIRATION with weekly suggestions for creative sparks to open the heart to new meaning
*SIMPLE PRACTICES with hands-on experiences to deepen the worship experience
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Barn Geese Worship's You Are Here: A Lenten Series Exploring God's Presence in the Place Where You Are - bundles include:
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A Sanctified Art offers a bundle of 11 multimedia ministry resources for the seasons of Lent-Easter, following the RCL Year C (all are digital files):
