Some of the resources we used in Lent 2021

Time to Reflect's Suggestions for Lent Books 2021

 

Living His Story: Revealing the extraordinary love of God in ordinary ways

(The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent book 2021)

Hannah Steele

SPCK £9.99 (9789-0-281-08517-0)

“a fresh perspective on evangelism”, helping us “become more confident and creative in the task of witnessing”. Commended to anyone “who feels their inner evangelist has nodded off”. The author argues that Lent is the right season to prepare for the Easter morning call to “go and tell”.

 

The Way Of Benedict

Laurentia Johns OSB

Publisher : SPCK  £7.95 (978-0-281-075812)

Our world badly needs Christ's light and peace. One way to bring these blessings to one another is to attend to our own hearts and to learn to live well. 
Living Lent well involves turning back to God to receive his blessing. In this deep and practical book, a guide for Lent and the rest of the year, Sr Laurentia distils the sixth-century Rule of St Benedict as a series of blessings. Closely based on Scripture, the Rule highlights that the whole of life has a Lenten character and points to a joyful eternity.

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Holy Week Voices from the Holy Land

Fr Richard Nesbit

Available only from the Friends of the Holy Land £7.99

https://www.friendsoftheholyland.org.uk/           Poems and Reflections for Lent & Easter’ – (with Forewords by Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Archbishop Justin Welby)

 

Thy Will Be Done

Stephen Cherry

Bloomsbury £9.99  (978-1-4729-7825-7)

Takes a close look at the Lord’s Prayer and deepens our understanding of it with an understated wisdom. It is helpfully structured for a Lent read. Cherry unearths what we learn about God in its 57 Greek words but also how the prayer lays out a vision of grateful and non-anxious relationship with life’s provisions.

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The Way of Julian of Norwich: A prayer journey through Lent
Sheila Upjohn
SPCK £9.99  (978-0-281-08369-5)
This book is drawn from many years of prayerful immersion in Julian’s ‘showings’. This is a book with a positive and homely spirit. It is centred on Julian’s comment that “our prayer makes God glad and happy. He wants it and waits for it so that, by his grace, he can make us like him in condition as we are in creation”. It is conversational in tone and practical in intent, each of its short six chapters ending with some questions and a reflection

Rooted in Love: Lent reflections on life in Christ
Sarah Mullaly
SPCK £9.99  (978-0-281- 08488-3)
This is a conventional Lent book, made up of 40 short chapters, each with a biblical reading, reflection, recommended ‘action’ and prayer. The chapters are written by the seven bishops of the diocese of London. The book’s first part aims to point us to Christ and then later explores our calling and what a maturity in Christ might look like.

A Cross in the Heart of God: Reflections on the death of Jesus
Samuel Wells
Canterbury Press £12.99  (978-1-78622-293-0)
Wells wants to “put conviction and a new sense of discovery” into the crucifixion taking us through the Hebrew scriptures, the Gospels and the Epistles. Two short chapters can be read each day through Lent and there is a study guide at the back of the book to stimulate thought and discussion. His approach is described as provoking and consoling in equal measure, “occasionally irritating but always widening our own cherished thoughts”. He concludes by saying, “Jesus hangs on the cross to show us the love that hangs on. Hang on to that love. It will never let you go.”

Candles in the Dark
Rowan Williams
Publisher : SPCK £9.99 (978-0-281-085965)
As we contemplate the coming months, not knowing when we can breathe again, it’s worth thinking about how already the foundations have been laid for whatever new opportunities God has for us on the far side of this crisis. Rowan Williams offers comfort, hope and encouragement for the troubled times of coronavirus.

 

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