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2026 Guide to Lent
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Lent is a sacred season—a forty-day journey of prayer, reflection, and renewal that begins on Ash Wednesday and leads us toward the hope of Easter. Rooted in Scripture and shaped by our worship and shared life, Lent invites us to turn again toward God with honesty and intention. This 2026 Guide to Lent offers curated resources for individual and group study to support you as you pause, listen, and deepen your faith during this holy season.
Reconciliation: From Ashes to Peace
Created by Anita Ford, pastoral care leader, for the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast
Through Scripture and tradition, we are formed in the realization that Lent is the season intended to lead believers through honest self-examination, repentance, and restored relationship with God and each other.
This five-week, diocesan-sponsored study will focus on prayer, reflection, and gentle conversation to consider how God’s reconciling love meets us in places of tension and transforms them into spaces of renewal.
Whether you are seeking peace, restoration, or a deeper awareness of God’s work in your life, this study offers a contemplative path through the Lenten season.
From Dust We Walk Together: Reflections for the Lenten Journey
Written by the Rev. Kay Dennis, deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast
From Dust We Walk Together is a Lenten devotional for anyone who has ever felt that faith was meant to be carried alone—and discovered that it never was.
Lent begins with ashes, with the reminder that we are fragile, finite, and in need of grace. But those ashes are received side by side. Repentance is spoken in the plural. Hope is held in community. This devotional traces the shared journey of Lent from Ash Wednesday through the First Sunday of Easter, inviting readers to walk the road of return together rather than alone.
Written with pastoral warmth and theological depth, From Dust We Walk Together offers daily reflections shaped by Scripture, honest storytelling, and prayer. These devotionals do not rush the wilderness or soften the weight of the cross. Instead, they make space for weariness, grief, doubt, and longing—while gently reminding readers that faith is often sustained by borrowed strength, shared prayer, and the quiet presence of others.
Creation-forward Resources for Lent
Recommendations from the Commission on Integrity of Creation
Love God, Love God's World - The Episcopal Church
Climate Justice Curriculum for Youth and Young Adults - The Episcopal Church
Ecological Grief and Creational Hope - Anglican Diocese of Toronto
Episcopal Relief and Development 2026 Lenten Meditations
For 15 years, Episcopal Relief & Development has been blessed by the opportunity to join readers on their spiritual journeys with thought-provoking meditations.
Written by Sister Monica Clare, an Episcopal nun, author and unlikely TikTok star, our 2026 meditations offer an invitation to rediscover—or deepen—holy habits of prayer, worship and Scripture engagement. These holy habits provide a path to a life rooted in God, given shape, meaning and direction.
Visit the Episcopal Relief and Development website to subscribe to daily emails, download a PDF, read the meditations and access a Group Study Guide to reflect on the meditations and Scripture with others.
United Thank Offering: Gratitude and Reciprocity
United Thank Offering's 2026 Lenten materials are inspired by "The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World" by Robin Wall Kimmerer. This book takes a look at how the natural world functions via a gift economy as plants, animals, soil, etc., share what they have for the common good. When the UTO Board and Staff read this book, we resonated with the themes because they also are the foundation of the ministry of UTO. UTO was created to support work that lacked funding by encouraging Episcopalians to give thanks for the gifts in their lives and then “pay it forward” via UTO. Our faith teaches us that grace is a gift freely given by God and that the gift is so great we want to respond by giving to others. This is what it means to be a part of a gift economy when we give thanks and we give back.
During Lent, we are invited to take on something that will deepen our faith, which is what these materials intend to help you do. Below you’ll find a calendar (which you can also receive as a daily text message by signing up below with a prompt for reflection, action, or connection based on the belief that “all flourishing is mutual” and that when we are blessed, we bless others. Each week, we’ll reflect on an aspect of gratitude and reciprocity to help deepen (or start) your personal spiritual discipline of gratitude.
Download free resources for congregations and families below, or sign up for the daily text message prompt.