Resources for Lent
 

(ELCA Global Mission is pleased to provide this Lenten Worship Series, "Global Companions: Who Is My Neighbor?" as a gift to congregations for use during Lent, either at midweek services or during Sunday worship. New for 2008 is an Easter Sunday resource from Jerusalem.)

Also new: Subscribe to "Living Earth," ELCA Lenten Reflection E-mail Series -- 40-day ELCA Lenten reflection series will offer a holistic approach to how we live in caring relationship with creation.

What is Lent?

Resources for Individuals

• 40 hunger-related prayers for Lent - A selection of resources to help individuals and congregations mark the season of Lent with the traditional and some nontraditional disciplines

• "Living Simply With God: A 40-day Hunger Calendar" - appropriate for Lent or any time, comes with several suggestions for use

• "Lenten Table Tents" -  devotions and other suggestions for Lent in the form of tents to be kept on the family dining table from Bread for the World.

• Resources for Simple Living - lifestyle choices for healthier people and a healthier planet - good any time as well as Lent

• A "Lutheran Rosary" for Lent - the discipline of daily prayer, includes instructions for "prayer beads"

• Daily Bible readings from the Revised Common Lectionary

• Practicing Spirituality - thoughts for the day, links to readings in spirituality and suggestions for spiritual practices from Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, who have been covering contemporary culture and the spiritual renaissance for decades
• "Lent 2008 Sermon Series" is an online discussion group in LutherLink, led by Pastor Ralph Mineo. this year focusing on the second seven chapters of the book "Practicing Our Faith," edited by "Dorothy C. Bass.
   
• "Stretch and Pray: A Daily Discipline for Physical and Spiritual Wellness" by Murray D. Finck combines physical and spiritual practices for the season that might actually lead to ongoing enhancement of the spirit and nurturing of the body.

Resources for Pastors and Congregations

• "Eco-Palms" -- Order by February 20!  In Guatemala and Mexico, a new palm-harvesting process protects the environment and also provides a fair income for the harvesters.  Called eco-palms, the palms are harvested in a sustainable way, the harvesters are paid on the quality of the palms and package and ship their palms directly rather than relying on middlemen -- ensuring that more of the money paid for the palms actually goes to those who worked the hardest to provide them.

• "Table Tents" from Bread for the World give a focus on weekly prayers for the hungry at soup suppers or for distribution to families

• Worship planning helps from ELCA churchwide worship staff, including a new "Lent checklist"

• "Eco-palms" LWR social and environmental justice project that ensures palm harvesters earn a fair income and palms are harvested in an environmentally sustainable way.

• "NewProclamation.com" is an preaching resource with excellent basics for Year C

• New services for Ash Wednesday and the "Three Days" are available in Evangelical Lutheran Worship and at SundaysandSeasons.com.

• Resources recommended by resource center directors at the resource center shared Web site.

• Daily Discipleship is a very popular online lectionary Bible study for groups.

• "The Amazing Gift of Your Baptism" - nine ecumenical study sessions on Baptism  (God's amazing grace, the individual before God, initiation into the Church, encounter with love, healing, community life, new life, social response, death).  Each session has Scripture, a reflection and discussion "talking points."
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• "Lent - Prayers and Litanies" from World Hunger offer brief items for insertion into liturgies, table prayers and more.

• Seminary courses for laity -- Several different studies, each providing a notebook containing economical and reproducible "Study Guides" for five sessions, a "Teacher’s Guide," related articles and other  resources. Cost:$34.95 for each study set of materials ($24.95 if you download).

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• Lent and Easter supplies as well as gifts and books.

• Books, etc. specifically recommended by staff and ELCA Resource Center directors
   

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