Holy Week and Easter Web Resources 2016
Holy Week
General
Iona: Recent E-Prayer & Liturgies include resources for children and young people, as well as Daily Readings for Lent and Holy Week.
Engage Worship: Holy Week Images; Area 52 –Watch site for upcoming resources based on each day of Holy Week
Building Faith
Working Preacher: Watch the site for upcoming commentaries. Updated weekly.
The Presbyterian Church in Canada:
Worshiping with Children: Includes many ideas of how to include families in Holy Week worship and engage both children and adults in the texts for the day.
Worship Workshop
Palm Sunday / Sunday of the Passion – March 20, 2016
Palm Crosses (The United Church of Canada)
Liturgy Link: Includes litanies and Invitations to the Table
Musiklus: Anthology of music composed by Ron Klusmeier and friends. Requires subscription to download. Organized by season, themes or subject. Additional suggestions: “Come into the Streets with Me”, “Holy Spirit, Storm of Love”, “Pilgrims”.
The Three Days
Building Faith: Home and Family Practices
LiturgyLink: Prayers, Calls to Worship, and Dialogues
Musiklus: Anthology of music composed by Ron Klusmeier and friends. Requires subscription to download. Organized by season, themes or subject. Additional suggestions: “At the Table of the World”, Wounded World that Cries for Healing”
Easter
Working Preacher: Watch the site for upcoming commentaries. Updated weekly.
Anglican Church of Canada: Contemporary language liturgical texts for trial use. Includes texts for Morning and Evening Prayer, as well as Collects and Seasonal Prayers for Year C.
LiturgyLink
Music that Makes Community: Songs for Easter, many include sample videos of how to lead the songs.
Musiklus
The Presbyterian Church in Canada:
Engage Worship: Area 52 - Watch site for upcoming resources based on Easter Day and the Season of Easter
Building Faith: Home Practices
Worship Workshop
Celebrations, Commemorations and Events within Holy Week and the Season of Easter
World Water Day – March 22, 2016
Day of Prayer for Peace in the Holy Land – March 24, 2016
Vocational Sunday – April 17, 2016
Earth Day – April 22, 2016
Kairos: New Discussion Paper after the Paris Climate Conference, as well as other resources.
Musiklus
Day of Prayer for Peace in the Holy Land – April 24, 2016
Additional Resources
Lutheran World Federation: Reformation 2017
The website offers many resources, as well as updates on what is happening worldwide in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Just released – a joint Catholic-Lutheran “Common Prayer” for 500 years of Reformation.
United Nations: International Days
March 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 24: International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims
March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
April 7: International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda
April 7: World Health Day
April 22: International Mother Earth Day
April 29: Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare
May 15: International Day of Families