These daily services for Morning, Midday and Evening Prayer are designed particularly for Holy Week but are appropriate for use throughout the Season of Lent.
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This act of remembrance, based on two John Donne poems, is appropriate for All Saints’ Day. It may also be used for interfaith memorial observances.
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Using Scripture from the Gospel of John, this dramatic reading for a Tenebrae Service was written by Doodle Harris for the youth of Highland Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Kentucky.
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Use these ideas to observe Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday.
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This multisensory, peripatetic service in the tradition of the stations of the cross includes scriptures appropriate for a Reformed church.
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This is a service for the imposition of ashes and the remembrance of baptism based on the sermon’s assurance that though we are dust, we are baptized dust, and that makes all the difference.
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Creative ideas and suggestions on how to celebrate the Lenten season.
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“We Have Seen the God of Glory,” a hymn to be used for Transfiguration Sunday.
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These collects for Transfiguration Sunday might be used as opening prayers, prayers for illumination or prayers at the conclusion of the thanksgivings and intercessions.
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The Revised Common Lectionary readings for Baptism of the Lord and Transfiguration of the Lord bracket the time after Epiphany with God’s words of favor to Jesus: “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” Download a chart that demonstrates the parallels among the gospel lessons for these days, a helpful resource for teaching and preaching.
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