Lenten Resources

The 2010 Lenten Resource page is a place for you to come throughout the season of Lent to reflect on meditations, offerings, and scriptures for your life.  If you have feedback about Lenten Resources, e-mail Kelly Harris at kelly.harris@dwtx.org

Lenten Resources: 

• Resources - To view weekly lectionary readings, prayers, poems and learn about specific lenten symbols, click here.
• To receive daily electronic devotions from ExploreFaith.com, click here.
• Lenten Blog by Catherine Lillibridge, Rhonda Needham & Jay Buzzini, click here.

• Stations of the Cross - audio recordings, "Walking the Way of Sorrow" from Katerina Whitley, speaker and author. To see books by Whitley, click here. To read her bio, click here. The Stations of the Cross (or Way of the Cross) refers to the depiction of the final hours (or Passion) of Jesus, and the devotion commemorating the Passion.

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  • Station 1 - Jesus is condemned to death
    Station 2 - Jesus Takes up his cross
    Station 3 - Jesus falls the first time
    Station 4 - Jesus meets his afflicted mother
    Station 5 - The cross is laid on Simon Cyrene
    Station 6 - A woman wipes the face of Jesus
    Station 7 - Jesus fall the second time
    Station 8 - Jesus meets with the women of Jerusalem
    Station 9 - Jesus falls the third time
    Station 10 - Jesus is stripped of his garment
    Station 11 - Jesus is nailed to the cross
    Station 12 - Jesus dies on the cross
    Station 13 - The body of Jesus is placed in the arms of his mother
    Station 14 - Jesus is laid in the tomb

•  Churches with Stations of the Cross
  • St. Helena’s Boerne will have a Stations of the Cross.
  • St. Mark's San Antonio Youth will put on a Way of the Cross service on Friday, April 2 beginning at 6:30pm in the church.
  • Church of the Messiah in Gonzales will have a Stations of the Cross on Fridays at Noon, February 26 through March 26.
  • St. Margaret's San Antonio, outside Stations of the Cross open 24/7.
  • St. Luke's Cypress Mill, outside Stations of the Cross open 24/7.
  • Saint Andrew's By the Sea, indoor stations around the walls of the sanctuary.  They are available when the church is open.
  • St. Christopher's Portland will observe the Stations of the Cross on Fridays in Lent.
• Lenten Mite Box - World Mission
• Diocesan Cycle of Prayer
• Daily Office Readings
• Lenten Daily Devotions from TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas

Holy Week audio meditations from our bishops:

• Maundy Thursday - Bishop Reed 
• Good Friday - Bishop Lillibridge
• Holy Saturday / Great Vigil - Bishop Reed
• Easter Sunday - Bishop Lillibridge

Churches in the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas that have a labyrinth:

Labyrinths are used as tools of meditation to draw you closer to God. Walking among the turnings, one loses track of direction and of the outside world, and thus quiets the mind. Individuals walk labyrinths and stop in various locations to read scripture, meditate, and pray. Would you like to visit a church in the Diocese of West Texas, go to Find a Church.

To learn more about labyrinths, go to Grace Cathedral San Francisco.

• St. Peter's of Kerrville, outside and open 24/7.
• St. Matthew's, Edinburg, outside and open 24/7.
• All Saints’ Corpus Christi, and will have a special service with it for Holy Week.
• St. Stephen's Wimberley, outside and open 24/7.  
• Church of Reconciliation San Antonio, outside and open 24/7.  
• Resurrection San Antono, open to the public.
• St. Peter and Paul Mission, open to the public.
• St. Peter's Kerrville, outside and open 24/7.
• Resurrection San Antonio, outside and open 24/7.
• St. Michael and All Angels in Blanco, outside and open 24/7.