Advent
Resources from The Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church wants to help you and your congregation share that Good News with each other and your neighborhoods, especially this Advent and Christmas. Find our free resources based on invitation, the Way of Love, racial reconciliation, faith formation, and more below.
AdventWord from Forward Movement
AdventWord is an inspirational online Advent calendar featuring a daily prompt word selected from the Sunday Lectionary readings. Followers receive a daily meditation and image inspired by the day’s word, and are invited to share their own personal reflections, art, poetry, or other creative expression.
New and Recent Formation Resources for Advent from Building Faith (2025)
Advent is an exciting season in the church year. As many of the resources below underscore, Advent ushers in a new liturgical year and offers stories, hymns, and practices that can inspire Christians’ faith in countless ways as we attend to how God is moving in our lives and in our world to “mak[e] all things new” (Rev. 21:5, NRSVUE).
Prayers and a Blessing for Advent from Building Faith
To inspire you and your communities in your prayers and worship during this season, we at Building Faith want to share eight prayers and a blessing for the days and weeks of Advent. May they help you connect more deeply with God in Advent and embrace the hope that this season proclaims. As you share the prayers and blessing, please give credit to the original sources.
Christmas
Resources from The Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church wants to help you and your congregation share that Good News with each other and your neighborhoods, especially this Advent and Christmas. Find our free resources based on invitation, the Way of Love, racial reconciliation, faith formation, and more below.
Prayers and Blessings for Christmas from Building Faith
The seasons of the church year are great teachers in prayer. Each shows us a distinctive array of imagery, symbols, stories, and experiences for connecting with God. No matter where we are or what we may be going through, every season invites us all and holds space for God to draw us into God’s presence and love.
Epiphany
Chalking the Door: An Epiphany Tradition from Building Faith
“Chalking the Door” is a short liturgy for marking our homes with sacred symbols and asking God’s blessing upon those who live, work, or visit throughout the coming year. In this service, we mark our front or main entrance doors with chalk as a sign that we are inviting God’s presence into the places, relationships, and situations that we call home.
Prayers and Blessings for Epiphany from Building Faith
On January 6, we celebrate the Feast of Epiphany. We retell the story in Matthew’s gospel of the Magi arriving in Bethlehem and presenting gifts for a king to Jesus as a baby. In the season that follows, we hear story after story of people recognizing Jesus as the Messiah. This time is characterized by revelation and mystery surrounding God’s new incarnate way of being with God’s people in Jesus.
Lent
Resources from The Episcopal Church
The journey through Lent into Easter is a journey with Jesus. We are baptized into his life, self-giving, and death; then, we rise in hope to life transformed. This Lent, communities are invited to walk with Jesus in his Way of Love and into the experience of transformed life. Together, we will reflect anew on the loving actions of God as recounted in the Easter Vigil readings. Together, we will walk through the depths of salvation history into the fullness of redemption. Videos, adult forum curriculum, calendar, publicity materials, and quiet day curriculum available in English, Spanish, and French.
Resources for Lent from Building Faith
In the western church the forty days of Lent extend from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday, omitting Sundays. The last three days of Lent are the sacred Triduum of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. Christians are invited to the observance of a holy Lent through spiritual practices such as prayer, fasting, scripture study, and alms giving.
Lenten Meditations from Episcopal Relief & Development
This Lent, “let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:24-25)
Join writer Jerusalem Jackson Greer this Lent as she encourages us to partake in “A Commonplace Lent.”
Isaiah: Prophet of Rebuke, Prophet of Hope Lenten Meditations from Communities for Spiritual Vitality
The 2025 Lenten Devotional on the prophet Isaiah is now available on the Spiritual Resources page. It is a free online resource for personal or parish use, as well as for interparish conversations from Ash Wednesday through the first part of Easter.
Join writer Jerusalem Jackson Greer this Lent as she encourages us to partake in “A Commonplace Lent.”
Includes writings by ECCT’s own Valarie Stanley, the Rev. Canon Rebekah Hatch, and Canon Sarah Woodford.