Resources for your lenten journey
Growing a rule of life with the Society of St. John Evangelist
The Society of St. John Evangelist and Virginia Theological Seminary have designed Growing a Rule of Life for individuals or small groups. It uses a tool from monastic spirituality called a “rule of life” to explore and cultivate our relationships with God, self, others and creation.
VTS’ Lisa Kimball’s video invitation to use Growing a Rule of Life is here.
The series includes daily videos and reflections along with a corresponding workbook which can be purchased for $3 each or $20 for 10 at Amazon. To subscribe to a daily morning email with a short video and download a PDF of the accompanying workbook click here.
Get your 2017 Saintly Scorecard, a guide for Lent Madness
Inspired by college basketball tournaments, Lent Madness pits 32 saints against each other in a bracket, as each saint seeks to win the coveted Golden Halo. This indispensable guide includes biographies of the 32 saints vying for the golden halo, tips on how to use Lent Madness as a tool for formation, a handy fold-out bracket with all the pairings, and Saintly Sprinkles recipes for saints-related sweet treats and tasty breads.
New this year are Pocket Lent Cards of previous Golden Halo winners with key vital stats.
The 2016 Saintly Scorecard is available now, with a cover price of $3. Bookstore and bulk orders receive additional discounts. To order, call 1-800-543-1813 or visit www.forwardmovement.org. Ebook is available on Kindle, Nook, and iBook.
Lent Madness was initiated by Episcopal priest Tim Schenck in 2010 and found its home at Forward Movement in 2012. Lent Madness engages thousands of people each season of Lent as they learn together about the lives of amazing men and women – and have a lot of fun!
Meditations on the theme of Go!
Daily reflections on a Scripture verse containing the word “Go!,” prepared by many authors including Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, other bishops, Episcopal Church staff and members of United Thank Offering, Episcopal Migration Ministries, National Association of Episcopal Schools and Episcopal Relief & Development, will be will be available on the Episcopal Church’s website here and on Facebook here.
Episcopal Church-sponsored group offers daily “Journey to the Cross” devotions
d365, a daily devotional site produced by Passport, Inc. for young people funded through individual gifts and the support of three denominational sponsors – Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Presbyterian Mission Agency, and the Episcopal Church – is offering Lenten devotions online here. The devotions have five parts: pause, listen, think, pray and go. The devotions are also available via Facebook, Twitter via @d365 and via an iPhone app.
Sharing your experiences
Episcopalians are invited to share photos of congregations and individuals focusing on Ash Wednesday and Lent. Submit your photos to the Episcopal Church’s website via this link.
House of Bishops offers Lenten meditations on ‘economic imagination’
This Lent, the theology committee of the House of Bishops invites the church to explore ways to recover and renew economic imagination with a new resource, Repairing the Breach: Discipleship and Mission in a Global Economy.
Produced in partnership with Forward Movement, Repairing the Breach provides daily meditations and videos during the season of Lent. The meditations move through a pattern of reading, watching, reflecting, and praying, and each week of Lent is devoted to a particular aspect of economic life.
The reflections examine the causes of economic injustice and our role, both personally and corporately, in unsustainable patterns of consumption and self-interest. The project also highlights specific practices where the Spirit of God is moving in local congregations and communities to bring new life.
Visit repairingthebreach.forwardmovement.org to learn more, register to receive daily meditations and watch for the first meditation on Ash Wednesday. A print-friendly downloadable PDF of the reflections is also available for download here.
Episcopal Relief & Development’s 2017 Lenten meditations
This booklet encourages readers to actively seek the holy every day during Lent by reflecting on God’s call, their own lives and how they can live out their Baptismal Covenant by healing a hurting world; featuring reflections on spiritual practices written by the organization’s staff, partners and friends from around the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion.
Program staff, disaster response volunteers, board members and others share the breadth of spiritual practices that give them strength for the journey.
Digital versions of the English and Spanish booklets are available online atepiscopalrelief.org/Lent, and all are invited to sign up for daily email meditations.
Protect the environment with a candlelit dinner during Lent
Anglicans and other Christians are being challenged to enjoy a candlelit dinner as part of a series of challenges for a “carbon fast” during Lent. The initiative comes from the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and is being supported by the Anglican Communion’s Environmental Network (ACEN).
For Anglicans, Roman Catholics and many others, “Lent is the time when we remember the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness, facing challenge and temptation,” the Southern Africa environmental group Green Anglicans, says. “It is a time when we reflect on God’s purpose for our life. This year we challenge you to take a carbon fast – to reduce the actions which damage God’s creation.”
The Carbon Fast for Lent crib sheet can be downloaded from the Green Anglicans’ website.
Fourteen-year-old partners with Forward Movement to develop app for Lent
Jack Whittaker has been programming since he was nine years old and his latest project is a new app for Lent from Forward Movement.
The app, Journey Through Lent 2016, brings Forward Movement’s popular Join the Journey Through Lent daily coloring calendar to the digital world. The app provides daily images and reflections illustrated by award-winning cartoonist Jay Sidebotham, offered alongside daily Eucharistic gospel readings, a space for journaling, and the option to add color and share your images.
“Jack approached us about building a Lent app based on work he had done previously. He is a talented programmer and he was a delight to work with,” says the Rev. Scott Gunn, executive director of Forward Movement.
The Journey Through Lent 2016 app is available now in the app store for $1.99 for iPhone or iPad. To learn more or download, click here.
The Society of St. John Evangelist and Virginia Theological Seminary have designed Growing a Rule of Life for individuals or small groups. It uses a tool from monastic spirituality called a “rule of life” to explore and cultivate our relationships with God, self, others and creation.
VTS’ Lisa Kimball’s video invitation to use Growing a Rule of Life is here.
The series includes daily videos and reflections along with a corresponding workbook which can be purchased for $3 each or $20 for 10 at Amazon. To subscribe to a daily morning email with a short video and download a PDF of the accompanying workbook click here.
Get your 2017 Saintly Scorecard, a guide for Lent Madness
Inspired by college basketball tournaments, Lent Madness pits 32 saints against each other in a bracket, as each saint seeks to win the coveted Golden Halo. This indispensable guide includes biographies of the 32 saints vying for the golden halo, tips on how to use Lent Madness as a tool for formation, a handy fold-out bracket with all the pairings, and Saintly Sprinkles recipes for saints-related sweet treats and tasty breads.
New this year are Pocket Lent Cards of previous Golden Halo winners with key vital stats.
The 2016 Saintly Scorecard is available now, with a cover price of $3. Bookstore and bulk orders receive additional discounts. To order, call 1-800-543-1813 or visit www.forwardmovement.org. Ebook is available on Kindle, Nook, and iBook.
Lent Madness was initiated by Episcopal priest Tim Schenck in 2010 and found its home at Forward Movement in 2012. Lent Madness engages thousands of people each season of Lent as they learn together about the lives of amazing men and women – and have a lot of fun!
Meditations on the theme of Go!
Daily reflections on a Scripture verse containing the word “Go!,” prepared by many authors including Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, other bishops, Episcopal Church staff and members of United Thank Offering, Episcopal Migration Ministries, National Association of Episcopal Schools and Episcopal Relief & Development, will be will be available on the Episcopal Church’s website here and on Facebook here.
Episcopal Church-sponsored group offers daily “Journey to the Cross” devotions
d365, a daily devotional site produced by Passport, Inc. for young people funded through individual gifts and the support of three denominational sponsors – Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Presbyterian Mission Agency, and the Episcopal Church – is offering Lenten devotions online here. The devotions have five parts: pause, listen, think, pray and go. The devotions are also available via Facebook, Twitter via @d365 and via an iPhone app.
Sharing your experiences
Episcopalians are invited to share photos of congregations and individuals focusing on Ash Wednesday and Lent. Submit your photos to the Episcopal Church’s website via this link.
House of Bishops offers Lenten meditations on ‘economic imagination’
This Lent, the theology committee of the House of Bishops invites the church to explore ways to recover and renew economic imagination with a new resource, Repairing the Breach: Discipleship and Mission in a Global Economy.
Produced in partnership with Forward Movement, Repairing the Breach provides daily meditations and videos during the season of Lent. The meditations move through a pattern of reading, watching, reflecting, and praying, and each week of Lent is devoted to a particular aspect of economic life.
The reflections examine the causes of economic injustice and our role, both personally and corporately, in unsustainable patterns of consumption and self-interest. The project also highlights specific practices where the Spirit of God is moving in local congregations and communities to bring new life.
Visit repairingthebreach.forwardmovement.org to learn more, register to receive daily meditations and watch for the first meditation on Ash Wednesday. A print-friendly downloadable PDF of the reflections is also available for download here.
Episcopal Relief & Development’s 2017 Lenten meditations
This booklet encourages readers to actively seek the holy every day during Lent by reflecting on God’s call, their own lives and how they can live out their Baptismal Covenant by healing a hurting world; featuring reflections on spiritual practices written by the organization’s staff, partners and friends from around the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion.
Program staff, disaster response volunteers, board members and others share the breadth of spiritual practices that give them strength for the journey.
Digital versions of the English and Spanish booklets are available online atepiscopalrelief.org/Lent, and all are invited to sign up for daily email meditations.
Protect the environment with a candlelit dinner during Lent
Anglicans and other Christians are being challenged to enjoy a candlelit dinner as part of a series of challenges for a “carbon fast” during Lent. The initiative comes from the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and is being supported by the Anglican Communion’s Environmental Network (ACEN).
For Anglicans, Roman Catholics and many others, “Lent is the time when we remember the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness, facing challenge and temptation,” the Southern Africa environmental group Green Anglicans, says. “It is a time when we reflect on God’s purpose for our life. This year we challenge you to take a carbon fast – to reduce the actions which damage God’s creation.”
The Carbon Fast for Lent crib sheet can be downloaded from the Green Anglicans’ website.
Fourteen-year-old partners with Forward Movement to develop app for Lent
Jack Whittaker has been programming since he was nine years old and his latest project is a new app for Lent from Forward Movement.
The app, Journey Through Lent 2016, brings Forward Movement’s popular Join the Journey Through Lent daily coloring calendar to the digital world. The app provides daily images and reflections illustrated by award-winning cartoonist Jay Sidebotham, offered alongside daily Eucharistic gospel readings, a space for journaling, and the option to add color and share your images.
“Jack approached us about building a Lent app based on work he had done previously. He is a talented programmer and he was a delight to work with,” says the Rev. Scott Gunn, executive director of Forward Movement.
The Journey Through Lent 2016 app is available now in the app store for $1.99 for iPhone or iPad. To learn more or download, click here.
Resources to help us respond to the syrian refugee crisis
Many individuals in our community have expressed concern over the Syrian refugee situation. Our Diocese has prepared a resource web page with prayers, resources, and a short video from our Bishop outlining the situation and pointing us to ways that we can help.
http://diosohio.org/syrian-refugee-crisis/
http://diosohio.org/syrian-refugee-crisis/
Christ Church Glendale Academy-Online Classes
Online Classes at Christ Church Glendale Academy!
We now have an online "school" for faith formation and wellness! It is a learning place that you can access from wherever you physically, FOR wherever you are spiritually! There are a variety of self-paced classes on topics ranging from Bible study, to worship, to various life issues. The web address is https://ccgacademy.pathwright.com. If you would like to participate, email Joe at [email protected] and he'll help you get started.
We now have an online "school" for faith formation and wellness! It is a learning place that you can access from wherever you physically, FOR wherever you are spiritually! There are a variety of self-paced classes on topics ranging from Bible study, to worship, to various life issues. The web address is https://ccgacademy.pathwright.com. If you would like to participate, email Joe at [email protected] and he'll help you get started.
The Work of the People
Really cool independent ecumenical platform that produces and publishes multimedia to stir imagination, spark discussion and move people toward discovery and transformation. Check it out here.