Lent Web Resources 2016
Ash Wednesday – February 10
Liturgy Link
Worshiping With Children
Wild Goose Publications (Iona)
Engage Worship – Area 52: Creative Worship for Every Week. Includes ideas for prayer stations and Psalm 51 Confession.
Musiklus: Anthology of music composed by Ron Klusmeier and friends. Requires subscription to download. Organized by season, themes or subject. Additional suggestions: “Forgive Us, God”, “God of Trials and New Beginnings”
Season of Lent
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.
Working Preacher: Sensing the Gospel: A Five-Part Series of Meditations for Lent.
Us: Lent study course 2016: Migration and Movement
Ploughshares: Lent Intercessions
Kairos: Search on Lent to locate ‘Spirited Reflections’, as well as ‘A Lenten Journey to Justice for the Earth and its People’.
Engage Worship – Area 52: Creative Worship for Every Week. Includes a ‘Lent Family Creative Journal’.
Building Faith: Resources for Lent: Books and Devotions for Adults and Latest Lenten Resources for Children and Families. The lists include new resources from Augsburg, Abingdon Press and others.
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Global Ministries: The United Methodist Church: Praying with the World through Banners
Musiklus: Anthology of music composed by Ron Klusmeier and friends. Requires subscription to download. Organized by season, themes or subject.
Music that Makes Community: Look under Resources/Songs/Season/Lent to find some songs and refrains suitable for the Lent season.
Worshiping With Children. Also includes weekly links.
Palm Sunday – 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”.
Celebrations, Commemorations and Events within the Season of Lent
Day of Prayer for Peace in the Holy Land – February 24, 2016
ELCIC
Diaconal Sunday – February 28, 2016
ELCIC
Additional Resources
United Nations: International Days
February 20: World Day of Social Justice
March 1: Zero Discrimination Day
March 8: International Women’s Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Resources for Holy Week and Easter will be available in early February 2016