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Eucharistic Prayers for Lent, Year C

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These brief Eucharistic prayers are drawn from the themes and images of the Revised Common Lectionary texts for the first five Sundays in Lent, Year C. This format for prayer… Read more »

Daily Prayer During Holy Week

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These daily services for Morning, Midday and Evening Prayer are designed particularly for Holy Week but are appropriate for use throughout the Season of Lent. See related pages: Passion /… Read more »

Ash Wednesday Service (Baptized Dust)

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This is a service for the imposition of ashes and the remembrance of baptism based on the sermon’s assurance that though we are dust, we are baptized dust, and that… Read more »

Unique Worship Ideas for Lent

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Creative ideas and suggestions on how to celebrate the Lenten season. See related pages: Season of Lent, Presbyterian Worship

Worship Education Materials

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  Teaching worship is a way to pass on the faith as well as help people enter more fully into the transformative presence of God. The Office of Theology and… Read more »

Get the Daily Prayer app

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  The Office of Theology and Worship has developed a smartphone app for daily prayer. The Daily Prayer app provides simple, yet rich devotional resources for morning, midday, evening, and close of day…. Read more »

Christ the King/Reign of Christ

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Christ the King / Reign of Christ

At the conclusion of the Christian year, the church gives thanks and praise for sovereignty of Christ, who is Lord of all creation and is coming again in glory to reign (see Revelation 1:4-8).

This festival was established in 1925 by decree of Pope Pius XI. Originally it took place on the last Sunday in October, just prior to All Saints’ Day. Now it is celebrated on the last Sunday of the Christian year, a week before the season of Advent begins.

All Saints’ Day

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An 17th or 18th century Greek painting of saints and angels surrounding Christ's throne.

Greek icon of saints and angels around Christ’s throne (c. 1700).

All Saints’ Day

In early Christian tradition, saints’ days began as a way to mark the anniversary of a martyr’s death — his or her “birthday” as a saint. By the middle of the church’s first millennium, there were so many martyrs (particularly due to the persecution of Diocletian) that it was hard to give them all their due. All Saints’ Day was established as an opportunity to honor all the saints, known and unknown.

Trinity Sunday

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Trinity Sunday

On Trinity Sunday we proclaim the mystery of our faith in the triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, One-in-Three and Three-in-One.

The celebration of Trinity Sunday began among Western Christians in the 10th century and developed slowly until it was formally established on the Sunday after Pentecost by Pope John XXII (1316-1334).