Keeping Watch with the Disciples: Resources for Maundy Thursday Vigil
It’s almost too much for the senses … the whisper of the veil falling from the cross high above the altar, the rasp of bundled palms scouring the stripped altar colliding with the burning tang of...
View ArticleSeven Last Words: An Immersive and Interactive Experience for Children And Youth
On Palm Sunday 2019, the children and youth of Trinity Episcopal Church in Menlo Park, California, were invited to dive deeply into the story of Jesus’ passion by engaging Stations of the Seven Last...
View ArticleInviting Children to Remember and Celebrate Christ: A Devotional for Palm Sunday
Lent is a time of preparation. During this season, Christians around the world fast and pray, focusing their minds and hearts on Christ’s death and resurrection. For many of us, and especially for...
View ArticleThe Way of the Cross: New Ideas for Lenten Prayer and Devotion
In 2021, Virginia Theological Seminary produced a 40-minute video, The Way of the Cross (El Vía Crucis), that was made available free of charge for Lenten worship in English as well as Spanish. A year...
View ArticlePrayers for Holy Week
As we enter the holiest week of the Christian liturgical year, prayers, poems, and devotionals can help us connect more deeply with the story of the last days of Jesus’s life. Below are a few...
View ArticleNew and Recent Lent Resources for 2023
If you’re busy organizing children’s, youth, adult, or parish-wide programs for Lent and Holy Week, we’ve got you. We have compiled a list of new and relatively recent resources for Lent and Holy Week...
View ArticleOn Not Taking Lent out on Our Bodies
One year, when I started attending a church that held an Ash Wednesday service, I decided to keep a Christian tradition of fasting from food during the daylight hours of Ash Wednesday. I had breakfast...
View ArticlePrayers and Blessings for Easter
What do you say to a God of resurrection on Easter Day and throughout the season? In the resurrection of Jesus from death to new life, we encounter a God with us in every word, every truth, every...
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