The following selected sites offer worthwhile, ecumenically accessible Lent, Holy Week and Easter resources. Most links lead to devotional possibilities — Stations of the Cross, family prayer guides, and the like. A number of sites offer liturgical helps or rites. We especially emphasize sites and resources which seek to embrace children in the worship and devotional life of the church.
This collection of online resources has been brought over from the previous worship.ca and is being renewed. We would be grateful to hear of any sites which are not active or sites not listed here that are helpful.
Lent
- 2019 Lenten Study – Where Two or Three are Gathered: Worship for Small Assemblies – Lent 2019 – Year C
- 2018 Lenten Study – When Two or Three are Gathered: Worship for Small Assemblies for Lent 2018 – Year B
- BBC Radio 4 annually broadcasts a set of six talks though the weeks of Lent. Very worthwhile!
- As families and communities contemplate their observance of Lent and eventual celebration of Easter, they might do well to consider the ecumenical Alternatives for Simple Living of Sioux City, Iowa. Look for their archive which includes resources for Lent and Easter.
- Robert Longman Jr. offers a page on the Disciplines and Practices of Lent at his long-standing Home For the Seeking Spirit.
- Barbara Laufersweiler of Faith at Home, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, offers a number of tips, ideas and resources for Lent.
- Judy Haiwick, of Long Beach, California, maintains a site of helpful Sunday School Lessons which are based upon the ELCA’s version of the Revised Common Lectionary. She includes material on Lent and the Sunday of the Passion or Palm Sunday.
- Look to Fridge Art for Lenten family-centred activities.
- How does the Armenian Church observe Lent? With fasting and some great recipes for when off-fast!
- Frank Logue and the people of King of Peace Episcopal Church, Kingsland, Georgia, offer a helpful Resources page which includes Keeping a Holy Lent (PDF) and How to make Palm Crosses. See also their Making Room for Kids pages.
- Reformation Lutheran Church (ELCA) of Wichita, Kansas, offers a series of yearly Lenten Devotions.
- The community at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (ELCA) offers some helpful Resources for Congregational Use including items suited to Lenten devotion and study.
- The people at Lutheran Hour Ministries have created a site of Devotions covering the whole of Lent and Easter.
- Father Jim Irvine, Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in the Diocese of Fredericton, New Brunswick, offers a page of Lent, Holy Week and Easter resources entitled Ashes to Easter.
- Thanks to Raymond Bucko, the St.Andrei Rublev Icon Studio offers a lovely collection of the work of William Hart McNichols including a series of Lenten Meditations with Icons. A favourite: Jesus Christ Redeemer Holy Silence.
- Phillip Lindley et al of the University of Leicester have created an interesting database of British wall paintings featuring the Seven Deadly Sins and Works of Mercy, originally objects created for contemplation.
- At Monachos.net, Matthew Steenberg of Oxford University offers an interesting and excellent collection of Resources for Great Lent in Orthodox Christianity.
- The ELCA worship people offer a collection of resources for Lent.
- The LC-MS worship people offer a collection of resources including family Lenten devotions and liturgical helps. Go to the LC-MS website, click on “worship resources,” and follow the links.
- The General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church offers resources for Lent.
- The Reformed Church in America offers a variety of Resources for Lent.
- John Birch offers a variety of Resources for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.
Holy Week
- Holy Week Services: Where Two or three are Gathered – Holy Week Year A
- Holy Week devotional from Not Counting Sundays – 8.5×14-1
- Jeff Krantz and the people at Preaching Peace offer a nice set of Stations of the Cross for Holy Week.
- Barbara Laufersweiler of Faith at Home, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, offers a number of tips, ideas and resources for Holy Week, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and the Great Vigil.
- The community at St Gregory’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco, California, does an annual Holy Week Conference where they preview a variety of liturgical materials.
- Look to the Church Times for timely reviews of books appropriate to the season and for other interesting resources.
- Judy Haiwick, of Long Beach, California, maintains a site of helpful Sunday School Lessons which are based upon the ELCA’s version of the Revised Common Lectionary. She includes material on the Sunday of the Passion or Palm Sundayand The Events of Holy Week.
- The Church of England community of All Hallows, Leeds offers a series of thoughtful devotional reflections called This is Holy Week.
- Thanks to Raymond Bucko, the St.Andrei Rublev Icon Studio offers a lovely collection of the work of William Hart McNichols including a series of Stations of the Cross of a Person with Aids composed in 1989 when the outlook was bleaker than bleak.
- Irene Wischick of Aberdeen, Scotland, has posted a page entitled Through Nomadic Eyes – Stations of the Cross in Lodwar Cathederal, Kenya. Beautiful!
- Dominic Barrington and Paul Kennington have compiled Stations of the Cross which feature photographs of Jerusalem taken in 1996.
- The Franciscan Friars “Custodians of the Holy Land” offer a number of interesting items, including stational photographs on their Via Crucis page.
- In 1998, at Boston College, Sam Sawyer created an online Bach and Dürer: Passion Music and Imagery page.
- The ELCA worship people offer a collection of resources for the Great Three Days.
- The General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church offers resources for Holy Week.
- John Birch offers a variety of Resources for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.
Easter
- Look to Fridge Art for Easter family-centred activities.
- Judy Haiwick, of Long Beach, California, maintains a site of helpful Sunday School Lessons which are based upon the ELCA’s version of the Revised Common Lectionary. She includes material on Easter.
- Barbara Laufersweiler of Faith at Home, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, offers a number of tips, ideas and resources for the Great Vigil of Easter, Easter and the Great Fifty Days.
- The ELCA worship people offer a collection of resources for the celebration of Easter.
- The General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church offers resources for Easter.
- The Reformed Church in America offers a variety of Resources for Easter.
- Available online are the draft texts for the new services for Lent, Passiontide, Easter and Eastertide from the forthcomingTimes and Seasons book of the Church of England.
Catalogues of Links and Resources
A few sites offer significant collections of helpful links.
- Consider the work of our friends at Anglicans Online who maintain a page of online Lent and Easter Resources.
- Jenee Woodard offers Lent, Holy Week and Easter pages at TextWeek, one of the most helpful Lectionary resources sites on the Web.
- Consider the myriad Lent, Holy Week and Easter possibilities at Richard and Charlene Fairchild’s long-standing A Holy Easter.
- John Birch offers a variety of Resources for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.