Lift Up Your Hearts
Lent, Holy Week & Easter Resources

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. The seasonal resources represented here are additional to the regular liturgical, preaching and devotional material found elsewhere at Lift Up Your Hearts.

This collection of online resources is renewed each winter. New links are added while dated resources and stale sites are culled. We would be grateful to hear of any sites of which we should take note. Drop us a line to suggest possible links.

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Lent

• 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.
• ELCA pastor Thomas Weitzel of Largo, Florida, maintains a helpful Liturgy site offering original services, worship ideas and articles related to worship and spirituality. Look to his Lent Directory for a number of nice items including his excellent Handbook for the Discipline of Lent.
• Look to the Church Times for timely reviews of books appropriate to the season and for other interesting items.
• Barbara Laufersweiler of Faith at Home, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, offers a number of tips, ideas and resources for Lent.
• Victor Hoagland offers a variety of family/children's prayer resources including Heart Prayers During 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.
• James O'Regan has published a lovely Lenten Reconciliation Service.
• At Monachos.net, Matthew Steenberg of Oxford University offers an interesting and excellent collection of Resources for Great Lent in Orthodox Christianity.
• The Church of the Nazarene's Dennis Bratcher has nice material on the celebration of Lent.
• 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.

Holy Week

• 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. See also their Liturgy at St Gregory's page. Very interesting!
• Here are fascinating interactive panoramic views of the Stations of the Cross along the contemporary Via Dolorosa and the interior of the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre. Apple Quicktime plugin required.
• Victor Hoagland offers a variety of family resources including lovely Stations of the Cross with Saint Paul of the Cross, Stations of the Cross for Children, Holy Week for Children and Heart Prayer for Holy Week and Easter. He also provides a helpful introduction to The Stations of the Cross and Other Devotions to the Passion.
• 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 Sunday and 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.
• Frank Logue of King of Peace Episcopal Church, Kingsland, Georgia, has prepared an online set of Stations of the Cross.
• 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.
• The Virtual Museum of Canada has brought an exquisite exhibition of art and commentary to the Web called Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries. The endeavour has been spearheaded by David J. Goa of the Provincial Museum of Alberta. A great place to visit on the paschal journey.
• John Render of the Passionist Research Center has prepared an interesting online Gallery of the Passion featuring artwork from across the ages.
• In 1998, at Boston College, Sam Sawyer created an online Bach and Dürer: Passion Music and Imagery page.
• The Church of the Nazarene's Dennis Bratcher has nice material on the celebration of Holy Week.
• 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.

Easter

• Look to Fridge Art for Easter family-centred activities.
• ELCA pastor Thomas Weitzel of Largo, Florida, maintains a helpful Liturgy site offering original services, worship ideas and articles related to worship and spirituality. Look to his Easter Directory for a number of nice items.
• Victor Hoagland offers a variety of family/children's resources including Heart Prayer for Holy Week and Easter and The Easter Tree.
• 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 April, 2001 issue of The Lutheran, a publication of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, includes a poem by John Updike entitled Seven Stanzas at Easter.
• Here at Lift Up Your Hearts, you'll find the Quem Quaeritis Trope, an Easter morning entrance rite together with the famous Easter Sermon of John Chrysostom.
• The Church of the Nazarene's Dennis Bratcher has nice material on the celebration of Easter.
• 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 forthcoming Times 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.
• Tim Muth of Saint John's Lutheran Church, Brookfield, Wisconsin, has long offered a lovely Easter Page with many helpful items.
• For several years, Rich Miller has offered Easter in Cyberspace: A Christian Perspective.
• Consider the myriad Lent, Holy Week and Easter possibilities at Richard and Charlene Fairchild's long-standing A Holy Easter.

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