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Lent Multimedia Playlist

Posted on by Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller

Friends,

Let’s build a Lenten multimedia playlist.

Please comment with your favorite Lenten art: music, videos, art, etc.

Thanks for jumping in, and check back often to see what’s been suggested.

The action here will be down in the comments!

Lord’s Blessings,
Pastor Wolfmueller

Update, from pastor Beck:

DinnerTimeDevotionsDownload

I’m adding the comments to the post here. There’s a lot of diversity here. If you don’t like something, go to the next!

Joe Gilder

I made a version. Not exactly “traditional,” but it is a cappella.

O Sacred Head Now Wounded (A Cappella) by Joe Gilder 

J Hearer

Crown of Roses – Tchaikovsky

https://youtube.com/watch?v=agNMQ3FtwBk%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den-US%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3DtransparentReply

Chris Carver

Lord, Thee I Love With All My Heart

Ryan Kleimola

This painting is a great Palm Sunday picture: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/op101.rap.html

Andrew Niedbala

Great choice!

John ~the~ Sacramentarian

This isn’t strictly for Lent, but it is a 26 hour (and counting) Spotify playlist of good (Reformed) Christian music. It has a little bit of everything, and a lot of psalms.

Sara James

Woodcut picture link is in the Website field.
Titel: Jesu Seelenkampf in Gethsemane
Verses: Matthew 26:38,39
Artist: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Jesus im Garten Gethsemane, Evangelium nach Matthäus Kapitel XXVI Verse 38-39 “dann spricht er zu ihnen: meine Seele ist mehr als traurig, sogar bis in den Tod: Ihr hier verweilen und beobachten Sie mit mir. Er ging ein wenig weiter und fiel auf sein Angesicht und betete, sagen, O mein Vater, wenn es möglich sein, lassen Sie dieser Kelch an mir vorüber: trotzdem nicht wie ich will, sondern wie du willst. ” 1852-60 Illustration von Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld


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Here is URL for a website where a PDF of JSvC’s woodcut can be downloaded http://pitts.emory.edu/dia/image_details.cfm?ID=11938

Vera Sweet

Johann Sebastian Bach | Matthäus – Passion / St Matthew Passion (BWV 244)

Ken Jansen


JoEllyn Yoder

My Song is Love Unknown

Jeff Decker

Corner room music Isaiah 53

Rob K

Ok, gotta start with Jesus I will Ponder Now. I have to apologise, sir, as I do not usually separate my Lent and Holy Week and Good Friday and Easter hymns – they all run together, much as I do at Christmas. However! I will include a good one below from YouT00b and then I’ll check back in a bit, and may add a link to my entire list…

my Lent / Easter playlist, link below for YouT00b,

rk

Richard Mittwede

At The Foot of the Cross CD. Songs in the 7 last words.

Kingo’s Hymns on the Passion Translated by Mark DeGarmeaux

https://blc.edu/comm/gargy/gargy1/KingosPassionHymns.html

Bugenhagen’s Passion History compiled by Mark DeGarmeaux
https://blc.edu/comm/gargy/gargy1/BugenhagenPassionhistory.html

Lenten Blessings
Sara
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” Lamentations 3:24

David Van Haaften

Christina Rosetti’s poem “Good Friday”

Am I a stone, and not a sheep,
That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross,
To number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow loss,
And yet not weep?

Not so those women loved
Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;
Not so fallen Peter, weeping bitterly;
Not so the thief was moved;

Not so the Sun and Moon
Which hid their faces in a starless sky,
A horror of great darkness at broad noon –
I, only I.

Yet give not o’er,
But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;
Greater than Moses, turn and look once more
And smite a rock.

Dave Van Haaften

Sarah Rose

Stephen Hernandez

Christ the Life of All the Living

Variations on Christ the Life of All the Living – Rev. Dr. Christopher S. Ahlman

Oh Dearest Jesus

Agnus Dei Healey Willard

St. John Passion – Carl Schalk

Psalm 22 – Matthew Camidge

Karen Koning
Stricken, Smitten and Afflicted

https://youtube.com/watch?v=x-QFx5RRqFM%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den-US%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

Bruce Tivendale

Ps Bryan, you once said (Table Talk, I think) that you had been to a conference where someone said you can’t have a real conference unless someone quotes CS Lewis. How about this: https://www.cslewis.com/point-of-view-for-lent/

Diane

One of my favorites:
Fernando Ortega singing Stricken, Smitten and Afflicted:

Neng Mena

What is this bread.

Wes Morgan

Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)- Johnny Cash

There are several renditions of this hymn, but I love Cash’s rawness applied here

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7T8qwVjfvms%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den-US%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

(Pastor) James Anderson

Reading through The Lutheran Confession – a private group which you apply group to (easy & respectful to the groups AIMS so that we together what we believe teach and confess as Lutherans …

https://www.facebook.com/groups/186966402072207

Oliver

And one shall say unto him, ‘What are these wounds in thine hands?’ Then he shall answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’ Zechariah 13:6

A drawing.

Nancy Almodovar

My First Ash Wednesday I was struck with two thoughts so I blogged about them, might help those not yet Lutheran
https://www.lutherangirl.org/post/thursday-s-theological-thoughts-a-baptismal-reminder-found-in-ash-wednesday

and

https://www.lutherangirl.org/post/agnus-dei-and-ash-wednesday

Spencer Gremmer

A Lenten Cantata by Acap Concordia University Nebraska

Heidi

I was privileged to live in Europe several years ago and I visited the Louvre a handful of times. At one visit, I discovered this wonderful painting of Peter and John running to the empty tomb. So I suppose it is more Easter art, but it really stands on the threshold between lent and Easter. The expressions on their faces are worth meditating on.

Abigail

Michael Eldridge:
Just As I Am:


Oh Sacred Head:

Rev. Steve Andrews Jr.

Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but I just shared a guide for Lent in our homes with my congregation this weekend. A little history, tradition, devotions/activities.
https://sandhandrews.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/the-familys-guide-to-lent-in-the-home.pdf

Tallis – Lamentations

Lord Jesus Think On Me

Joel Dusek

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/ftgP8xFZs19pU8EC7

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.
Jesse O’Shell (vocals & violin), Meagan Vigil (vocals), Joel Dusek (vocals)

Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller
Bryan Wolfmueller, pastor of St Paul and Jesus Deaf Lutheran Churches in Austin, TX, author of "A Martyr's Faith for a Faithless World", "Has American Christianity Failed?", co-host of Table Talk Radio, teacher of Grappling with the Text, and theological adventure traveler.

55 Comments

  7. Woodcut picture link is in the Website field.
    Titel: Jesu Seelenkampf in Gethsemane
    Verses: Matthew 26:38,39
    Artist: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
    Jesus im Garten Gethsemane, Evangelium nach Matthäus Kapitel XXVI Verse 38-39 “dann spricht er zu ihnen: meine Seele ist mehr als traurig, sogar bis in den Tod: Ihr hier verweilen und beobachten Sie mit mir. Er ging ein wenig weiter und fiel auf sein Angesicht und betete, sagen, O mein Vater, wenn es möglich sein, lassen Sie dieser Kelch an mir vorüber: trotzdem nicht wie ich will, sondern wie du willst. ” 1852-60 Illustration von Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

      1. The Pitt Theology Library Digital Image Archive also has a nice index of selected images each of the Revised Common Lectionary readings, as well as by the Bible verse it references. (Look for the link at the bottom the Digital Image Archive page.)
        http://pitts.emory.edu/dia/

  11. Kingo’s Hymns on the Passion Translated by Mark DeGarmeauxhttps://blc.edu/comm/gargy/gargy1/KingosPassionHymns.html

    Bugenhagen’s Passion History compiled by Mark DeGarmeauxhttps://blc.edu/comm/gargy/gargy1/BugenhagenPassionhistory.html

  16. Ok, gotta start with Jesus I will Ponder Now. I have to apologise, sir, as I do not usually separate my Lent and Holy Week and Good Friday and Easter hymns – they all run together, much as I do at Christmas. However! I will include a good one below from YouT00b and then I’ll check back in a bit, and may add a link to my entire list…

    https://youtu.be/MPvf0CBFdus

  19. Christina Rosetti’s poem “Good Friday”

    Am I a stone, and not a sheep,
    That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross,
    To number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow loss,
    And yet not weep?

    Not so those women loved
    Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;
    Not so fallen Peter, weeping bitterly;
    Not so the thief was moved;

    Not so the Sun and Moon
    Which hid their faces in a starless sky,
    A horror of great darkness at broad noon –
    I, only I.

    Yet give not o’er,
    But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;
    Greater than Moses, turn and look once more
    And smite a rock.

    Dave Van Haaften

  28. Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)- Johnny Cash

    There are several renditions of this hymn, but I love Cash’s rawness applied here

  33. I was privileged to live in Europe several years ago and I visited the Louvre a handful of times. At one visit, I discovered this wonderful painting of Peter and John running to the empty tomb. So I suppose it is more Easter art, but it really stands on the threshold between lent and Easter. The expressions on their faces are worth meditating on.https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-disciples-peter-and-john-running-to-the-tomb-on-the-morning-of-the-resurrection-1898-eugene-burnand.html

  37. I have an old CD that I have played for years, Music for Holy Week, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge.

  43. http://saint-athanasius.org/LentenCalendar2021.pdf
    Lenten Life Calendar – Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church – Lent 2021http://saint-athanasius.org/

    Suggestion for How to Use This Calendar
    There is no right or wrong way to use this calendar. This is only a suggestion . . .
    (1.) Read the verse assigned in the morning, along with the short prayer.
    (2.) Try to keep this verse and prayer in mind throughout the day.
    (3.) If you need help, try writing these short verses on an index card or a small piece of paper so you can have them with you and read them throughout the day.
    (4.) If you are ambitious, try memorizing the verse for the day! (5.) Pray at the end of the day, adding your own thoughts to the prayer, including those you thought about during the day and their needs, as well as your own needs. (6.) If your heart is so moved, consider making a special Lenten gift to the organization listed for each full week.
    (7.) Have your children read and pray with you, and do the suggestions for each week so they can be involved too.

    Lent is all about life. Jesus’ life. Your life. Jesus giving His life for your life, that you may have life. Abundant life. Satan wants to take that life, your life, and make it his. Destroy it. Twist it. Make you think life a curse, not a blessing. Jesus says this: The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly(John 10:10). Satan is a thief. Jesus gives. And in His death and resurrection, Jesus gives us life again. Abundant life. Eternal life. Lent is therefore the perfect time to think about life and pray for life. For your life, your neighbor’s life, all life. Young life, old life, disabled life, unwanted life. To remember again that all life is precious to God. For He died to save every life. Your life. Please use this calendar this Lenten season to reflect on the gift of life, the ways life is thought about wrongly today, and to pray for life. All life. And if your heart is so moved, consider giving some Lenten alms to support the gift of life, as suggested at the end of each week. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich(2 Corinthians 8:9). ~ Saint Athanasius Commission on Mercy

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