The diocesan website has a wealth of resources to assist churches
and their parishioners in being the Church during the coronavirus and
new resources are being added each week.
Messages from Bishop Susan, including her lectionary reflections, are all available on our website here.
Here are a few of the newly added resources:
Light in Dark Times Healing Souls During the Pandemic and Beyond, a free webinar TODAY at 1 p.m. from Fresh Expressions US.
Youth Group at Home ideas, Galilee, Virginia Beach, has put together some youth group at home ideas for the whole family.
Ecumenical resources for Holy Week and Easter, Christian Churches Together, Churches Uniting in Christ, and The National Council of Churches have joined together to offer resources for Christians who are observing Holy Week and Easter in their homes.
Holy Week Resources for Families, a free download from Church Publishing.
Holy Week at Home, a resource created by Kristen Ketron, Director of Formation Ministries for Children & Youth at St. Matthias, Midlothian.
Stations of the Cross for younger people,
a resource created by Kristen Ketron, Director of Formation Ministries
for Children & Youth at St. Matthias, Midlothian (a PDF in booklet
format).
Sermons for Holy Week 2020: New resources for worship, reflections, meditation
A new resource, Sermons for Holy Week 2020,
is an ideal companion for Holy Week devotions. Like all resources
offered by The Episcopal Church's office of communication, Episcopal
congregations, dioceses, and organizations and agencies have permission
to use Sermons for Holy Week 2020 for online worship, study groups, or
other virtual use.
Sermons for Holy Week 2020 is designed for public and personal use
for group discussions, personal meditations, reflections, and devotional
reading by preachers, groups, individuals, adults and youth.
Prepared through The Episcopal Church's popular Sermons That Work,
the resource is designed for use throughout Holy Week to follow Jesus
through the streets of Jerusalem, to Gethsemane, to the foot of the
cross, and toward the joy of Easter.
Included are resources for Palm Sunday through the Great Vigil, all
presented in different voices by the cadre of writers from Sermons That
Work. Topics are: Made Holy; Extravagant Love; Shame; The Paradox of
Judas; By Our Love; and He Has Been Raised from the Dead.
Sermons for Holy Week 2020 is available to download at no fee here.
Sermons That Work will also be launching a podcast on Palm Sunday, April 4, offering audio versions of
the sermon for each day of Holy Week. After Easter, the podcast will
continue weekly, with a new sermon available for every Sunday. Find the
podcast here or on your favorite podcasting platform.
For more information contact Christopher Sikkema, Office of Communication manager for special projects, csikkema@episcopalchurch.org.
