A Repository of Hope

Ponder

• “No Man is an Island” by John Donne
• “Prayer of Teilhard de Chardin” by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
• “In the Cleaving” by Jan Richardson
• “Pandemic” by Lynn Ungar
• “The good and beautiful things I’ve seen amidst the coronavirus pandemic” by Simcha Fisher in America
• “We Believe in Home” by Charis Dietz
• “The World Is Scary As Hell, Love Anyways” by Jeremy Courtney
• “Love in the Time of Coronavirus” by Andy Crouch
• “The Christian Response to the Coronavirus: Stay Home” by Esau McCaulley
• “Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How” by Politico Magazine
• “The Moral Equivalent of War” by William James
• “Letter from the Trenches” by Amedeo Capetti, MD, infectious diseases expert and consultant to the WHO
• “The Returns of Love” by Luci Shaw
• “A Different Kind of Extraordinary” by Hannah Marazzi
• “Fear not, sneer not: A healthy Christian response to COVID-19” by Mirjam Schilling, Joel Gamblen and Nathan Gamble
• “Easter 2020” by Malcolm Guite
• “Jesus of the Scars” by Edward Shillito
• “Filming the divine: The Gospel According to Matthew” by Geoff Andrew
• “The Staggering, Heartless Cruelty Toward the Elderly” by Shai Held in The Atlantic
• “Coronavirus, Courage, and the Second Temptation of Christ” by David French
• Christian Love In a Time of Coronavirus, by Drew Masterson

Remember

• Romans 8:35
• “Piers Ploughman” by William Langland
• Lord’s Day 10 from the Heidelberg Catechism
• “Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague” by Martin Luther
• “The Grace of Doing Nothing” by H. Richard Niebuhr
• “Learning in War-Time” by C.S. Lewis
• “How Pandemics Change History” by Isaac Chotiner
• “During a pandemic, Isaac Newton had to work from home, too. He used the time wisely” by Gillian Brockell
• “‘Right & Wrong’ – A Clue to the Meaning of the Universe by C.S. Lewis”

Practice

• Abide with me (hymn)
• Memento Mori, by Brian Dijkema
• A Liturgy for Those Flooded by Too Much Information, by Douglas McKelvey
• A Liturgy for a Sick Day, by Douglas McKelvey
• A Liturgy for those who Weep Without Knowing Why, by Douglas McKelvey
• Saint Patrick’s Breastplate, from Plough Publishing
• Lord’s Day 1 from Heidelberg Catechism
• Prayers for the Sick, from the Book of Common Prayer
• Prayer for those we Love, from the Book of Common Prayer
• Prayer for the Absent, from the Book of Common Prayer
• “Now the Powers of Heaven” sung by seminarians at the Great Entrance during the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts at the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra
• “Living Out Our Public Justice Responsibilities During COVID-19” by Chelsea Langston Bombino and Katie Thompson
• “Toward an Infrastructure of Sacred Hospitality” by Adam Horowitz
• “We Survive by Telling Stories” by Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros
• “I’m a Nun and I’ve been Social Distancing for 29 years” by Sister Mary Catharine Perry
• A Note from Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett
• Spiritual rhythms for Quarantine, from The Common Rule by Justin Whitmel Earley
• Psalm 46
• Psalm 91
• “A Prayer for the Church in the Early Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic” by Walter Henegar
• Family-Supportive Workplaces: Resources for Sacred Sector Employers
• “Crisis Toolkit for Churches” from Barna’s ChurchPulse Weekly