Shrove Tuesday…

Do we even speak of pancakes?

Is there a place for this discussion in our contemporary homes and worship groups?

What excess, what fat do we find in our homes to feast upon today and abstain from tomorrow?

What words of celebration and festivity mark the transition from abundance to self-imposed scarcity?

How do we speak of traditions or from within traditions such as Pancake Tuesday?

Ash Wednesday…
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17  or  Isaiah 58:1-12
Psalm 51:1-17
2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Worship resources for Ash Wednesday:

Ash Wednesday Meditation — Jim Burklo

Fat Tuesday Word Jazz – Jim Burklo, USA

Hopeful brokenness, in response to a bombing — Ana Gobledale, UK

Invocation: Drum-beat Prayer for Divine Rhythm

Isaiah 58:1-12, Why fast? — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson

Pay attention! — Amanda Udis-Kessler, USA

Shout!, Psalm, Isaiah 58 — Duncan Wilson, UK

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We call to mind, Litany — Simon Cross, UK

Other Lent worship resources — appropriate for any time during Lent:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We were wrong, a confession — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16
Romans 10:8b-13
Luke 4:1-13

Worship resources for this Sunday:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Deuteronomy 26:1–11, a Harvest drama

Earth Care Lenten weekly resource Year C, The stones will cry out — Presbyterians for Earth Care

Fat Tuesday Word Jazz – Jim Burklo, USA

God of Covenant (on reading Deuteronomy) –Merryl Blair, Australia

In our darkest night (intercessions) – Katherine Baxter, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lead Us, Lenten Hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent, hymns for the season — George Stuart, Australia

Love anew, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Shout!, Psalm, Isaiah 58 — Duncan Wilson, UK

Unhinged, prayer – David Long-Higgins, USA

Other Lent worship resources — appropriate for any time during Lent:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We were wrong, a confession — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18
Psalm 27
Philippians 3:17-4:1
Luke 13:31-35  or  Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a)

Worship resources for this Sunday:

Call to Journey together — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Earth Care Lenten weekly resource Year C, The stones will cry out — Presbyterians for Earth Care

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

In our darkest night (intercessions) – Katherine Baxter, UK

Psalm 27 renewed — Duncan Wilson, UK

You call us, hymn — Sue McCoan, UK

Other Lent worship resources — appropriate for any time during Lent:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We were wrong, a confession — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Isaiah 55:1-9      
Psalm 63:1-8      
1 Corinthians 10:1-13     
Luke 13:1-9

Worship resources for this Sunday:

Carry me home – Sam Goodman, UK

Earth Care Lenten weekly resource Year C, The stones will cry out — Presbyterians for Earth Care

Eddies in the current of life — Jim Burklo, USA

In our darkest night (intercessions) – Katherine Baxter, UK

Psalm 63, I ache for you — Jim Burklo, USA

Shout!, Psalm, Isaiah 58 — Duncan Wilson, UK

Other Lent worship resources — appropriate for any time during Lent:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We were wrong, a confession — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Joshua 5:9-12    
Psalm 32             
2 Corinthians 5:16-21     
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Worship resources for this Sunday:

Earth Care Lenten weekly resource Year C, The stones will cry out — Presbyterians for Earth Care

In our darkest night (intercessions) – Katherine Baxter, UK

Luke 15, Prodigal Child dramatized, Children’s Message — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Shout!, Psalm, Isaiah 58 — Duncan Wilson, UK

The Paternal Embrace, a prayer of thanksgiving

Mothering Sunday resources:

Birthing Prayer (Inspired by 2 Timothy 1:5) — Kevin Goldenbogen, USA

Blessing for parents — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Cafe Church, Open Table service — Mothering Sunday

Inclusive Benediction — Jann Aldridge-Clanton, USA

Life’s connecting strands — Liz Grant, Salisbury, United Kingdom

Litany for Mothers — Janice Hill, USA

Mother God, a prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Mothering God — Cara Heafey, UK

Mothering Love, a hymn — George Stuart, Australia

Mothering Sunday Call to Worship, Proverbs 3 – Jann Aldridge Clanton

Mothers: a responsive prayer — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Mother’s Day is complicated — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Our Mother Creator, Responsive Reading, Genesis 1 —  Jann Aldridge-Clanton, USA

Prayer for International Women’s Day — Anna-Claar Thomasson-Rosingh, UK

Psalm 23, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson

Thanksgiving Hymn — George Stuart, Australia

Other Lent worship resources — appropriate for any time during Lent:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We were wrong, a confession — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Isaiah 43:16-21
Psalm 126
Philippians 3:4b-14
John 12:1-8

Worship resources for this Sunday:

Burial Bandages, a confession — Earl Roberts, USA

Earth Care Lenten weekly resource Year C, The stones will cry out — Presbyterians for Earth Care

In our darkest night (intercessions) – Katherine Baxter, UK

John 12:1-8, drama for 5th Sunday of Lent Year C– Ana Gobledale, UK

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Mary Interviewed, drama — Tod Gobledale, UK

Shout!, Psalm, Isaiah 58 — Duncan Wilson, UK

Other Lent worship resources — appropriate for any time during Lent:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We were wrong, a confession — Lauren Mallaby, Australia