Lent 2026
Lent is a season of penance, prayer and repentance, where repentance can mean not only regret and remorse, but also a “change of mind”, a turning around to the right path. Humanity certainly needs Lent. Let us model it where we can.
Calling a Wounded Earth Home
Our main recommendation is Green Christian’s 5-week Lent Course, Calling a Wounded Earth Home. Inspired by Green Christian’s Deep Waters Course, it asks “What kind of people might we need to be to face the challenges of climate change?”
There are two versions. 1 – including links to music from the internet, and 2 – similar, but internet free, using music/songs from Taize.
Here is a space to go deeper together, and a space of contemplation that can resource meaningful action.
Other suggestions for Lent
1. Plenty!
Our own Plenty! course can be used for Lent – it is all very applicable within the thinking of the season of Lent and beyond.
2. Lent 2025: Returning to the Heart
A Lenten journey of prayer, contemplation, and ecological conversion from the Laudato Si Movement.
Lent 2026 is an invitation to return to the heart — to Christ, to creation, and to one another. Throughout this sacred season, the Laudato Si’ Movement offers prayer resources for individuals and communities seeking to live Lent as a contemplative journey rooted in faith and care for our common home.
3. Where your treasure is : making your money work for God’s creation.
This is a five-week course from Operation Noah, exploring how we can use our money to tackle the climate crisis. Each week contains readings, a reflection, discussion questions, a prayer and some actions that you can take. Whilst some of the suggested actions may take longer than a week to complete, we recommend you spend some time each week reflecting and sharing as a group what your experiences were with the previous week’s action. This is intended to be a very practical course to inspire positive action for the climate.
4. Carbon Fast: Climate Stewards have resources for a carbon fast for Lent. You can find out more and sign up here.
5. Green Collects
Eco Congregation Scotland has a set of Green Collects that can be used for Lent. And their Creation-Inclusive Communion liturgy.
6. Carbon Literacy for Congregations
Carbon Literacy for Congregations is an accredited course written for use in small groups in churches.
There is an online course over Lent on Tuesday evenings.
7 Creation Care: Christian Responsibility
Christine Nellist, who helps to run Pan-Orthodox Concern for Animals, says: “Please also look at the course on our website, which is themed and full of early and contemporary Christian quotes, which I am sure will be of use to you and to the parishes you will speak at. Happy for it to be modified for your audience”
and also found this resource from the US:
9. Other courses. Operation Noah has put together a Catalogue of Christianity and Climate Courses
Campaigns
Writing in The Methodist Recorder, Green Christian member, John Anderson, says:
Traditionally we try to do fewer bad things in Lent. I think we should try to do more good things. We should not shrivel and retreat. We should gird our loins and advance …We face national and global challenges; our cosmic Christ inspires us to act world-wide in his name. By modern communications networks we can do this more effectively than any previous generation … Giving to charities is good; acting to bring about major world change is better
Go to our Action web area.