“Jesus asked his disciples ‘What were you discussing out on the road?'”
Mark 9:33
Words Along the Way for Holy Week
Resources for Reading – Doing – Sharing
For the Journey of Holy Week
- “Walk” a virtual labyrinth (about 20 minutes)
- Poems, Prayers & Meditations for Holy Week from Austin Seminary to read and reflect on
- Holy Week Guide for Reflection – articles and reflection questions from The Christian Century
For families
- God’s Big Easter Story offers a set of downloadable daily devotions and activities
- Holy Week in a Box takes children concretely through each day of this week
- For crafters, Easter Flags are colorful and symbolic of events of Holy Week
For Palm / Passion Sunday
- Guided lectio divina on Matthew 21:1-11 from the American Bible Society
- “A Sonnet for Palm Sunday,” Malcolm Guite
- For families
- Kids’ Club’s video of Jesus’ triumphal entry
- How to make palm branches without palm branches (version 1)
- How to make palm branches without palm branches (version 2) – the link is to an entire lesson plan; instructions for palms are on page 3
For Maundy Thursday
- A reflection on Holy Thursday by Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB
- “And Jesus Sang,” Barbara Brown Taylor
- A collection of Maundy Thursday readings
- For families
- A video on the Last Supper (a little rude) from Kids’ Club
- A guide to stripping the table
For Good Friday
- “Thinking about Good Friday during a pandemic” by Elizabeth Palmer (from The Christian Century)
- An ordinary day in today’s Jerusalem – scenes from the Old City (about 15 minutes)
- The Stations of the Cross are a Catholic devotional practice associated with the events of Good Friday – these videos present the stations with contemporary language and art and traditional prayers; this photo meditation comes from a desert monastery in the US
- For families
- A cross window cling craft
- A recipe for hot cross buns – a traditional Good Friday food
For Holy Saturday
- Literary meditations on Holy Saturday
- “The coronavirus pandemic feels like an endless Holy Saturday,” Richard Lischer (in The Christian Century)
- For families
For Easter Sunday
After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning …
Matthew 28:1
Book Study – Online!
We are moving our study of Difficult Conversations online, with plans to have some conversations after Easter.
Images (from top): Logo by Font Awesome Free 5.4.1 by @fontawesome – https://fontawesome.com / CC BY; Cover Paradisets naturreservat, Huddinge by Holger.Ellgaard / CC BY-SA; Church of Abbaye Notre Dame de Saint-Remy Rochefort, by I, Luca Galuzzi / CC BY-SA; Easter flags at Buildingfaith.org; Einzug Christi in Jerusalem, Wilhelm Morgner / Public domain; Jesus Washes Peter’s Feet, Ford Madox Brown / Public domain; Christ Falls the Third Time, Mikhail Nesterov / Public domain; Praying statue at Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Guillaume Paumier / CC BY; Easter Lilies, Kuroda Seiki (1866-1924) / Public domain; cover of Difficult Conversations
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