As we get ready for Lent, I thought you might be able to use this index page for all the material I've written about Lenten Sundays (and a few weekdays), as well as material on the Rite of Election and Scrutinies. Blog posts on Triduum will have their own page, and I'll try to organize Easter later this year.
I apologize in advance for the dearth of material on weeks 3, 4, and 5 of Lent outside of Year A. We only use those readings at St. Anne when we don't have catechumens, and it hasn't happened very often! So good luck with those.
For now at least, I hope these may help give you ideas on music, preaching, and ritual as we head into Lent 2018. Thank you for your support.
Information about my book of Lenten Reflection, Change Our Hearts, can be found here, or using the link to Amazon.com.
LENTEN BLOG POSTS
1. General
- Fasting and almsgiving - a quick lesson from the Lenten lectionary
- My Lenten Manifesto
- A Repenting God
- Coming to Terms with the Cross (especially Year B)
- TBT - A vision of Lent (1999) with thoughts for each week
2. Ash Wednesday
3. First Sunday of Lent
- Lead Us to the Water (A1L)
- Election and baptism A1L
- O God, you were a warrior, but you set your bow in the sky (B1L)
- You will be like gods (C1L)
- Second thoughts - Remembering and Election (C1L)
4. Second Sunday of Lent
5. Third Sunday of Lent
- See below, "Where's Your Samaria"
- Of Wells, Women, and Song (A3L)
- The element of surprise (A3L)
- Second thoughts: Is the Lord in our midst or not? (A3L)
- Agape as flowing water (A3L)
- Christ at Jacob's Well and Emmaus (A3L)
6. Fourth Sunday of Lent
- "Believing is Seeing" (1) - the Man Born Blind
- Believing is Seeing (2) - the dark night of a liturgical soul
- Believing is seeing (3) - Turning can take a while
- "How were your eyes opened?" (A4L)
- John 9:9 and the co-creation of light (A4L)
- Rejoice! The Second Scrutiny! (A4L)
- Second thoughts: Through the eyes of love (A4L)
- Revising the “Family” Metaphor (A4L)
- The body of anti-Christ (B4L)
- All your children, lost and found C4L
- Ambassadors of "love in humiliation" (C4L)
7. Fifth Sunday of Lent
8. Scrutinies and "The Mystery of Sin"
9. Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion
10. Lenten Weekdays
11. Songs for Lent from "SongStories"
- Jerusalem, My Destiny (1989)
- Precious Blood (1995)
- Psalm 22 for Passion Sunday
- Covenant Hymn (1992, Vision; 1994, Praise the Maker's Love, GIA)
- Christ the Icon (WLP, 2005)
- You Alone (NALR, 1984)
- Change Our Hearts (NALR, 1984; OCP 2000)
- Penitential Litany: Hold Us in Your Mercy (GIA, 1993)
- Create Me Again (Psalm 51) (Vision, 1992, GIA)
- Be Thou My Vision (Vision, 1992, GIA)
- Faithful Cross (OCP, 2011, music by Tom Kendzia)
- To You Who Bow (GIA, 2014)
- Do Not Fear to Hope (1986, NALR)
- Live the Promise (GIA, 1994)
- Palm Sunday Processional (1998, GIA Publications)
- Two litanies for the scrutinies (and lament)
