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Advent
The 2024 Advent Project
Biola University
The Advent Project is a daily devotional series celebrating the beauty and meaning of the Advent season through art, music, poetry, prayer, Scripture, and a written devotion. The project starts on the first day of Advent and continues through Epiphany. Our goal is to help individuals quiet their hearts and enter into a daily routine of worship and anticipatory reflection during this meaningful but often hectic season. Our prayer is that the Advent Project will help ground you in the unsurpassable beauty, mystery and miracle of the Word made flesh.
Arts and Faith: Advent
Loyola Press
Prepare for Christmas and deepen your experience of the Advent season this year with Arts & Faith: Advent. Each week we’ll provide a video commentary about a work of art inspired by the Sunday Scriptures. Use these videos to take a new look at this season of hope and preparation through the lens of sacred art.
Honest advent
Scott Erickson
From celebrated artist and storyteller Scott Erickson comes Honest Advent, 25 days of illustrations and meditations that will help you rekindle the wonder of this season. Honest Advent creates a space for you to encounter the Incarnate Christ in unexpected places: like a pregnancy announcement in an era of political unrest and empirical bloodshed, the morning sickness of a Middle Eastern teenager, and the shocking biology of birth that goes far beyond the sanitized brand of Christmas as we know it today.
Honest Advent seeks to illuminate the astonishing, hope-filled truth that the God who showed up in the hardest parts of our humanity is still showing up today in those same places. Check out the corresponding Art Show!
Advent Retreat 2024
Pray As You Go
This new liturgical year is also the opening of a Jubilee Year within the church, to which everyone is invited. The year’s title is ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. Jubilee is a biblical concept of a time of rest, renewal, and liberation. It emphasizes God’s faithfulness, justice, and compassion. We look towards the coming of Christ as the ultimate jubilee, who comes to restore, renew, and liberate.
As pilgrims of hope our Advent journey this year invites us to travel in confidence, looking to the birth of Jesus as the source of all hope for our world.
Advent prayer
24-7 Prayer International
Ways to pray through Advent and Christmas individually, as a family, and with your community.
Includes Advent Prayer Activities, Advent Devotionals, and Family Prayers for Advent from Lectio for Families.
The Daily Office - Advent
The Practice
In this season of disruption and uncertainty, we invite you to join us in an intentional rhythm of prayer. How might our days be grounded more deeply in God’s presence if we pause each morning, midday, and evening for silence, scripture, and prayer?
Below you will find three prayers to practice throughout the day, one in the morning (10 minutes or less), another for midday (5 minutes or less), and one for the evening (10 minutes or less.) We encourage you to lean into these prayers and hold them through the entire week. May we live more fully in the presence of the Lord as we steep ourselves in a single passage and prayer throughout the week in a time of fear, anxiety, and uncertainty.
Lent
The 2023 Lent Project
Biola University
The 2023 Lent Project starts on Ash Wednesday, February 22 and runs through Bright Week, Saturday, April 15th. Each day of the Lent Project features a Scripture passage, a devotional written by a member of the Biola community, a work of fine art, a poem, and a piece of music. This year we have chosen to focus on the Book of John in its entirety. Our prayer is that in the midst of this challenging season, the Lent Project will help you encounter Christ anew through John's eyewitness account of Jesus' ministry.
Arts and Faith: Lent
Loyola Press
Enter into a visual prayer experience this Lent with Arts & Faith: Lent. Each week we’ll provide a video commentary about a work of art inspired by the Sunday Scriptures. Use these videos to take a new look at this season of spiritual renewal through the lens of sacred art.
Fasting: Feasting on God
Jason Feffer | The Practice Church
In our Lenten series this year, we will be leaning into the traditional practice of fasting. While this practice is often misunderstood, we absolutely believe it is foundational in our formation. Practiced rightly, fasting is actually feasting on God! On February 21st, 2021, Jason Feffer will help us examine the role of fasting as we work with Jesus in our everyday lives and will help us craft a practice for this Lenten season.
You can find the Order of Practice at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kHCW
Lent retreat 2023: the jerusalem journey
Pray as You Go
For Lent 2023, we're inviting you to slow down, use your imagination, and zoom in on Jesus' final journey to the cross and resurrection split over seven weeks towards Easter Sunday.
Led by Jesuit Phil Harrison SJ, each week you will be guided into an imaginative encounter with Jesus. After a short introduction on Ash Wednesday (22nd February), we will begin with Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on Monday 27th February.
The idea is to get as close to Jesus during this time as possible.
Here's the timetable for your reference!
Wednesday 22nd February: Introduction
Monday 27 February: The Entrance
Monday 6 March: The Perfume
Monday 13 March: The Bread
Monday 20 March: The Silver
Monday 27 March: The Feet
Monday 3 April: The Death
Saturday 8 April: The Tomb
Sunday 9 April: The Life
Why and How to Fast for Lent
Gravity Leadership Podcast
The only way to grow is to fail, so let’s talk about fasting! In this episode Ben and Matt share some concepts around fasting for Lent, which starts on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 26th this year. Could it be that we need to put ourselves in the way of weakness and need so we can meet God, fail, then return strengthened?
Our article on How to Fast For Lent
A Just Passion: a six- week Lenten journey
Ruth Haley Barton | Transforming Center
Take the opportunity during this season of Lent to confront injustice around---and within---us, while looking to Christ as our liberator. This collection of short readings, breath prayers, and Scripture passages from First Nations Version guides your 6-week journey of repentance, lament, worship, and healing. Explore heaven's promises and experience rejuvenation as you commemorate Christ's resurrection.
Also, consider listening to Ruth’s podcast episode Ash Wednesday: Learning to Love What God Loves.
For this Ash Wednesday episode Ruth sits down with David Bailey and Tina Harris to examine the connections between Lent and pursuing justice as a spiritual practice. They name areas of injustice and do some definitional work around exactly what God’s call to justice is. The three also speak candidly on why the white church has often failed to focus on this call, in both word and deed.
To end they look at Matthew 6 for inspiration on practices and postures we can all have this Lenten season as we look to pursue justice as a part of our spiritual formation.
Lent: A Season of Returning
Ruth Haley Barton | Transforming Center
Journey with us through Lent with our Lent: A Season of Returning Reflections written by Ruth Haley Barton. This digital product includes a PDF booklet with printing instructions, and an e-reader version.
New design with more room for personal reflections
Now includes all Scripture readings for each week of Lent beginning with Ash Wednesday (Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle B)
7 compelling reflections written by Ruth Haley Barton
Questions for contemplation along with a prayer based on the theme for each week
Make a donation to download.
Practicing the Way: Fasting
Bridgetown Church
Why do we fast?
Fasting is a willing abstinence from food for a period of time. It is one of the most abused and least used of all the practices of Jesus. Yet for millennia, it was a core practice of apprenticeship. We live in a culture not only of food, but of excess, luxury, and addiction. For so many of us, the desires of our body have come to hold power over us. In the battle with our “flesh,” we have become its slave, not its master.
Practice
Follow along with each part of this practice. We recommend you work through it with your community, a small group triad, a weekly meal with friends or neighbors, your roommates, whatever works. Get a group of people, set a time each week to share a meal, then talk and pray for about an hour. Transformation happens in community.
Lent 2023: Sabbath and Neighbor
Good Shepherd New York
As we enter the 40 days of Lent, we look inward and evaluate our relationship with the things that often fuel our identity and meaning and learn to open ourselves to a deeper experience of the love of God.
This year we invite you to create margin in your life by practicing the ancient tradition of the Sabbath. Sabbath is a 24-hour cycle of rest and reconnection with what truly makes life beautiful and holy. It is a time to pray, play and be present to the people of our lives. (For a good listen on the topic of Sabbath, we recommend THIS podcast episode).
With the help of a weekly digital guide that includes powerful art, music, and poetry, we will be inspired toward deeper levels of love. Let us enter into Lent with intent and make it a holy season!
Acknowledgments: Crae Achacoso (artwork), Drew Jackson (poetry), Roxy Stone (discussion guides).
what’s shaping you?
24-7 Prayer International
This Lent, take up a daily rhythm of prayer with the Inner Room app and be shaped by God.
What do your days revolve around? What fascinates you? Inspires you? Where do you get your information? Where do you turn for comfort?
What’s shaping you?
A million things are competing for our time and attention. We live in a world that is actively trying to shape us – our thoughts and opinions, our desires, and our choices. We’re all being formed by something. For many of us, our phones are a huge part of how day-to-day life is shaping us. This Lent, they become the key to forming a new habit of faithful prayer.
The Inner Room app has a Daily Prayer Rhythm designed to help you shape your life around God. We’re inviting you to download the app and join us in reconnecting with an ancient, daily rhythm of prayer. Three times a day. For forty days.
This Lent, will you choose to be shaped by God?
The Inner Room app turns your mobile phone into a prayer room.
The app has morning, afternoon, and evening prayers designed to bring you back into the presence of God for a few minutes throughout your day. They’re not long or complicated – but they are consistent.
Set up notifications to remind you to pray at strategic points throughout your day, and begin building a muscle of prayer.
Letting Go
The Practice Church
“Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.” Every year, the church calendar invites us to examine our lives. As we enter the season of Lent, we will slow down to listen and ask Jesus, “What life am I clinging to more tightly than I ought?” In this series, we will practice letting go of our false identity. How will we respond to the Lenten invitation to die with Christ so we might receive new life in Christ?
A series of 5 teachings on Letting Go by Jason Feffer, Ted Harro, Mimi Dixon, and Kellye Fabian.
Final Moments with Jesus
The Practice Church
A Good Friday prayer experience with art, scripture, and music based on the final moments of Jesus Christ's life.
Art by Scott Erickson Music by Aural Method
Anchored in “I Am”: holy week with the words of jesus
Sarah Bessey
10.00
In this Holy Week devotional, we will explore the “I AM” statements of Jesus along with the bonus 40 Simple Practices for Lent.
This devotional was intended to be an intense, one-week journey from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. There are eight meditations altogether, each one with a reading from the Bible, a reflection essay from the author, and then a practice and a benediction for you.
This is the PDF version of the digital download book.
Little Way Lent Bundle
Sale Price: 15.00 Original Price: 18.00
This purchase includes three guides: Little Way Lent, Holy Week for Holy Families, and the Little Way of the Cross. It will be emailed directly to your inbox as a single, 104 page PDF download. Note, this purchase is for individual use only. If you would like to purchase the Unlimited Print Little Way Lent Bundle, you can do so here.
The Little Way Lent Bundle includes:
+Little Way Lent: A daily guide for families with one spiritual practice per day based on the three pillars of Lent, Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving
+Holy Week for Holy Families: A devotional guide structured as a chronological walk with Jesus from Palm Sunday through Holy Saturday
+Little Way of the Cross: A family-friendly prayer guide and coloring sheet for the Stations of the Cross, a prayerful reflection on the events of Good Friday prayed by Christians around the world for centuries
Little Way Chapel is committed to making all of our resources:
User-friendly: Just download, print, and go!
Church-friendly: Ecumenical, written for all Christian traditions that follow the church calendar.
Family-friendly: Geared towards families with children ages 3-12, but easily adaptable for all ages.