Eastern North Dakota Synod

» Download the resource sheet: Lent, The Three Days, and Easter (download .pdf file)

We do not celebrate Lent as mere remembrance of our mortality or as a brief period of artificially-induced repentance. We celebrate it as our communal preparation for the baptismal celebration that is Easter’s vigil. And we celebrate Easter’s Fifty Days in order to reflect on our baptismal mission in the wider world.

Featured Resources:

• Holden Evening Prayer by Marty Haugen
• The Matthew Passion
• Cross Examinations
• A Closer Walk
• Death: Doorway to Life
• God’s Love in Jesus of Nazareth
• The Heart of the Matter (based on Psalm 51)
• Jerusalem at Passover
• Unfailing Light, a Lenten liturgy – Marty Haugen and Susan Briehl
• Ray McKeever’s Joyous Light
• Scripture Out Loud!
• Can These Bones Live?
• Timothy Strommen’s Getting Mixed Up in the Passion Story
• The Life Teachers of Samuel Jacob
• The Temptations of Jesus
• Character Portrayals for Lent by Steve Dornbusch
• Sundays and Seasons 2008
• The Three Day Feast: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter
• Liturgy: from Ashes to Fire for Cycle A
• 40 Day Journey with Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• 40 Day Journey with Joan Chittister
• 40 Day Journey with Kathleen Norris
• Stations of the Heart by Herb Brokering
• Gospel Food for Hungry Christians: Matthew by John Shea (CD)
• The Visual Bible
• The Gospel According to Matthew
• Walter Wangerin’s Parables: A New Look at Familiar Stories (Video / DVD)
• Signs of the Times (video/book)
• Spirituality: An Invitation to a Closer Relationship with God (video/book)
• Genesis: A Living Conversation (video)
• A Lenten Sourcebook: the Forty Days I and II
• Triduum Sourcebook
• An Easter Sourcebook
• Parables: Stories for Life in God’s World
• Blessed Are You: the Beatitudes of Jesus in Scripture and Life
• Lord, Teach Us to Pray
• The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen
• The Cup of Our Life by Joyce Rupp
• Speaking of Trust and Places Along the Way by Martin Marty
• The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
• What’s So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey
• Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope, Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light by Joan Chittister
• Called to Question by Joan Chittister

Featured Links:

• The Global Mission Lenten Worship Series (external link)
• Prophetic Voices: Witnesses to Radical Faith