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Arts Resources for Lent

(Revised Feb 2022)

Lent at Ephesus - Listen on Spotify

A Sonnet for Ash Wednesday by Malcolm Guite

Album of songs with Lenten themes from the Liturgical Folk series
On Spotify
On Bandcamp



Ash Wednesday's Early Morn - Liturgical Folk  

Lent Activities from The Religion Teacher

Poem 'Ash Wednesday' by Malcolm Guite

 

Softly and Tenderly (Come Home) - Audrey Assad and Sandra McCracken

Softly and Tenderly (Come Home) - Audrey Assad (with lyrics)

Called to More Web resources, articles and podcast on Lent. Irish site. Some arts content.

Poem on theme of service 'Could Lead and Serve' by Brendan O'Regan

Poem for Lent: penitents and elements by Julia Walsh

 

40 Days - Matt Maher 

Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days - Chris Brunelle 

 

‘Lenten Path/Lenten Garden’, created by Lizzie Harrison (Youth Ministry Coordinator at the Esker Retreat Centre).

Click here for notes on creating the garden and other Lenten resources:
Lenten Ideas from Dublin Diocese, including artistic Lenten Garden

 

 

Come Back to Me - John Michael Talbot

Striking image of the temptations in the desert

 

Lent: A Season of Repentance - Reflection and music by John Michael Talbot

Create in Me a Clean Heart by John Michael and Terry Talbot

 

Music for Lent from Gia Music

 

Ash Wednesday and Lent in Two Minutes from Busted Halo

 

Hymn: Forty Days and Forty Nights

The lyrics of 'Forty Days and Forty Nights'

 

Ashes by Tom Conry

Lenten Song - Michael John Poirier 

Oh Lord Send Your Justice - Ephrem Feeley