The following selected sites offer worthwhile, ecumenically accessible Advent, Christmas and Epiphany resources. Most links lead to devotional possibilities –Advent calendars, family prayer guides, and the like. A few 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.
Please note that some resources do/will not appear online until the very beginning of Advent.
Advent
- 2023 Advent Cycle of Prayer for the churches in the Holy Land and the Middle East – this resource has been prepared by the four leaders of the ELCIC, Anglican Church of Canada, Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
- The Advent Project of Lutherans Connect provides daily readings and reflections for the Advent season. The theme for the season is praying for creation. https://lcprayingforcreation.blogspot.com/
- Advent 2017 – Worship for Small Assemblies
- Want to focus on social responsibility? You might visit Buy Nothing Christmas, a Canadian project with Mennonite roots.
- As families and communities contemplate their observance of Advent and eventual celebration of Christmas, they might do well to consider the ecumenical Alternatives for Simple Living of Sioux City, Iowa. Look for their archive which includes resources for Advent and Christmas.
- 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 Advent & Christmas Directory for a number of nice items.
- St. Margaret Mary Parish, Naperville, Illinois, has produced a nice Advent calendar.
- Grace Episcopal Cathedral, San Fransisco, California, offers an interesting multi-media Advent Calendar.
- Barbara Laufersweiler of Faith at Home, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, offers a number of Advent home resources.
- Look to Fridge Art for Advent family-centred activities.
- Frank Logue of King of Peace Episcopal Church, Kingsland, Georgia, has prepared Celebrating Advent in the Home in PDF. See their Advent page as well as their lovely Resources and Making Room for Kids pages.
- Father Jim Irvine, Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in the Diocese of Fredericton, New Brunswick, offers a page of Advent, Christmas & Epiphany resources entitled Festivals of Light.
- The Reformed Church in America offers a variety of Resources for Advent.
- The people at Lutheran Hour Ministries have created a site of Devotions covering the whole of Advent and Christmas.
- French-speaking friends might appreciate Franziska Santschi-Geiser’s Le Calendrier de l’Avent.
- Helen McLoughlin has produced a text-only page of Family Advent Customs based on the book of the same title.
- Raymond Bucko has published an Advent Novena featuring some William McNichols icons.
- The ELCA worship people offer a collection of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany resources.
- John Birch at faithandworship.com offers a collection of Advent prayers.
Christmas
- Look to Fridge Art for Christmas family-centered activities.
- Barbara Laufersweiler of Faith at Home, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, offers a number of Christmas home resources.
- Frank Petersohn of Sechelt, British Columbia, offers texts and music files of Christmas Songs (Weihnachtslieder).
- The people at Lutheran Hour Ministries have created a site of Devotions covering the whole of Advent and Christmas.
- The Reformed Church in America offers a variety of Resources for Christmas.
- The ELCA worship people offer a collection of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany resources.
- John Birch at faithandworship.com offers a collection of Christmas prayers.
- Christine Longhurst at re-worship.blogspot.ca has an extensive collection of prayers, including prayers for Christmas.
Epiphany
- Epiphany 2018 – Worship for Small Assemblies
- Here at Building Faith, from Virginia Theological Seminary, you’ll find Chalking the Door, a home liturgy to celebrate the Epiphany of Our Lord.
- 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 Epiphany Directory for a number of nice items.
- James Irvine, (Anglican) Diocese of Fredericton, New Brunswick, offers an interesting Home Study for Advent/Epiphanyon Gary Smith’s Radical Compassion: Finding Jesus in the Heart of the Poor. Other fascinating home studies are based on works of Spong, Borg, Kushner, Yancey and others. (Note that the site is being rebuilt from scratch and some internal links may not work. Just give Fr. Jim a shout!)
- Reflecting the realities of an earlier age, the Catholic Liturgical Library offers a Proclamation of the Date of Easter at Epiphany from the 1970 Roman Missal.
- Barbara Laufersweiler of Faith at Home, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, offers some Epiphany home resources.
- The ELCA worship people offer a collection of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany resources.
- The General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church offers Articles and Resources for Epiphany.
- The Reformed Church in America offers a variety of Resources for Epiphany.
- John Birch at faithandworship.com offers a collection of Epiphany prayers.
- Christine Longhurst at re-worship.blogspot.ca has an extensive collection of prayers, including prayers for Epiphany.
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 excellent Resources for Advent and Epiphany Traditions pages.
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America offers worship planning materials for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.
- Jenee Woodard offers Advent, Christmas and Epiphany pages at TextWeek, one of the most helpful Lectionary resources sites on the Web.
- Consider the myriad Advent, Christmas and Epiphany possibilities at Richard and Charlene Fairchild’s long-standing A Holy Christmas.
- John Birch offers a variety of worship resources for the whole church year at faithandworship.com.
- Christine Longhurst offers many worship and prayer resources at re-worship.blogspot.ca (use label links in bottom right to navigate the site)