CORNERSTONE ANGLICAN CHURCH Lent 2025 RESOURCES

We hope that you will find meaningful ways to grow in your participation in the Lenten season. Below are some compiled ideas and resources to get you started!

TRADITIONAL PRACTICES DURING THE SEASON OF LENT:

• Fasting - Consider giving up something during this season; use these questions to help determine something meaningful to give up:

• What have I craved that I could let go of?

• Is there a food or activity I am dependent on?

• Where am I distracted? How can I make space for Jesus in that place?

• Alms-giving - Consider donating items to our Lenten Care Project

• Prayer - Dedicate a specific time daily or weekly throughout Lent to seek the Lord through prayer

• Confession - Make use of Cornerstone's prayer ministry on Sunday mornings to practice confession. Formal confession is also available outside of Sunday mornings; contact Donovan Brown for more information. 

IDEAS AND RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: 

Practice family prayer with the Book of Common Prayer (pp 66-78 in the BCP 2019) or online 

• Make a Plan for Lent - A printable to use with your kids

• Make Lenten Pretzels 

• Make a Crown of Thorns Wreath

• Make a Paper Chain Lent Countdown

• 'Twas the Season of Lent - A children's 40-day devotional

• Holy Week - A board book to prepare your youngest kids for Holy Week

• The Apostle's Creed: For All God's Children - A book that introduces kids to this special creed in preparation for Holy Week

MUSICAL RESOURCES: 

• Cornerstone Anglican Lent Mix - This mix was made to be listened to from start to finish, not shuffled.

• Spotify Playlist 

• Apple Music Playlist

LENTEN BOOKS + ONLINE RESOURCES 

Lent Devotional - Sign up to receive daily devotionals during Lent from the Matthew 25 Initiative 

• Lent: Creative Guide for Scriptural Imagination - 12 guided reflections for creatives from United Adoration (available in print and as a downloadable pdf)

• Where the Eye Alights - Daily meditations for the 40 days of Lent by Marilyn McEntyre

• The Good of Giving Up – A guide to the season of Lent by Fr. Aaron Damiani from Immanuel Anglican Church (Chicago, IL)

• Lent - This book by Esau McCaulley (a professor and priest) offers a reflection on the season of Lent

• Between Midnight and Dawn - This is a literary devotional through Lent, Holy Week, and Eastertide compiled by Sarah Arthur

• Bread and Wine - Readings from authors and theologians like Henri Nouwen, Dorothy Sayers, Leo Tolstoy, and C.S. Lewis on Lent and Easter

• The Art of Lent - Sister Wendy Beckett (a Carmelite Nun and art historian) considers and reflects on 40 pieces of art for the 40 days of Lent

• Uncovering the Love of Jesus - A devotional by Asheritah CiuCiu

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Image Cover Information: Rivière, Briton (1840-1920) - The Temptation In The Wilderness (1898). Located at the Guildhall Art Gallery. Oil on canvas (edited)