LENT STUDY GUIDE

 LENT STUDY GUIDE ONLINE RESOUCES 2023

This is our digital Lent resource space, giving you additional resources to accompany our 2023 Lent Study Guide, The Kingdom of God is Justice and Peace.

 INTRODUCTION

Below you will find a selection videos, music and further reading to supplement the material in the Embrace Lent Study Guide, The Kingdom of God is Justice and Peace.

Taizé chant - ‘The Kingdom of God is Justice and Peace’.

 WEEK 1: TREASURES IN HEAVEN

Royal School of Music rendition of the hymn ‘The Kingdom of God is Justice and Joy’.

 

The London Fox Taizé choir sing the Taizé chant, ‘In the Lord I’ll be Ever Thankful’.

 WEEK 2: TEMPTATION SUNDAY

Taizé chant - ‘Confitemini Domino’.

 
Mount of Temptation Monastery

The Mount of Temptation

Find out more about the Mount of Temptation, near the West Bank city of Jericho, which is said to be where Christ was tempted by the devil.

Temptation of Christ painting

The Temptation of Christ

Take a look at some of the depictions of the Temptation of Christ in notable artworks and in beautiful Eastern Orthodox icons.

 WEEK 3: THE PRODIGAL SON

The London Fox Taizé choir sing the Taizé chant, ‘Wait for the Lord’.

 
Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Find out more about Rembrandt’s famous masterpiece.

Open bible

A reflection on the parable of the Prodigal Son

In an article in the Church Times, Canon Dr Angus Ritchie shares his thoughts on the parable.

WEEK 4: THE SAMARITAN WOMAN 

The London Fox Taizé choir sing the Taizé chant, ‘Come, Drink of Living Water’.

Christ and the Samaritan Woman, a painting by Vincenzo Catena

‘Christ and the Samaritan Woman’ by Vincenzo Catena

Take a look at the sixteenth-century masterpiece.

Choral arrangement of John Foley's classic hymn, 'Come to the Water'. Arranged by Jack Schrader and sung by the choir choir of St. Francis De Sales Church in Ajax, Ontario, Canada.

WEEK 5: THE PARALYSED MAN 

‘Love The Lord’, sung by the University of Notre Dame Folk Choir.

 
An open Bible

A reflection on the Healing of the Paralyzed Man

Whitney Hopler shares her thoughts on the miracle.

The London Fox Taizé choir sing the Taizé chant, ‘Bless the Lord My Soul’.

 WEEK 6: THE MAN WHO WAS BORN BLIND

Taizé chant - ‘See, I am Here’.

Healing of the Man born Blind painting by Duccio

‘The Healing of the Man Born Blind’ by Duccio

Find out more about the famous Maestà altar piece by the great Italian artist Duccio di Buoninsegna.

‘Be Still and Know that I am God’, sung by the University of Notre Dame Folk Choir.

WEEK 7:  PALM SUNDAY

Last year’s Palm Sunday Procession in Jerusalem.

 
An open Bible

A Palm Sunday Reflection

By Revd Dr Cally Hammond is the Dean of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Israeli soldiers

“Rockets, bullets, and checkpoints are not the final chapter”

Embrace’s Rev Su McClellan reflects on the situation in the Holy Land and on the work of Embrace’s partners there.