Library Guides: Lent: Reference Resources

Online

"Ash Wednesday"
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
"Ash Wednesday"
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
"Easter and Its Cycle"
New Catholic Encyclopedia
"Fast & Abstinence"
New Catholic Encyclopedia
"Holy Week Practices"
Encyclopedia of Latino Culture

"Lent"
Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity

"Lent"
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

"Lent"
New Catholic Encyclopedia

"Lent"
Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices

On The Shelf

Encyclopedia of Easter, Carnival and Lent by Tanya Gulevich; Mary Ann Stavros-Lanning
Call Number: GT4935 .G84

Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary by David L. Bartlett & Barbara Brown Taylor
Call Number: Ref. BV 4235 .L43 F32

Year A, Volume 2

The New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship by Peter E. Fink
Call Number: Ref. BV 173 .N5 1990

The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship by Paul F. Bradshaw
Call Number: Ref. BV 173 .N492 2002

Origins of the Liturgical Year by Thomas J. Talley
Call Number: BV30 .T35 & BV 35 .T24 1991

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church by F. L. Cross & E. A. Livingstone
Call Number: Ref. BR 95 .O8 2005

RPP - Religion Past and Present by Hans Dieter Betz, Don Browning, Bernd Janowski, & Eberhard Jüngel
Call Number: Ref. BL 31 .R4213

*See Passiontide (Lent), Passion/Passion Traditions, Passion Music, Passion Piety, Passion Plays, Passion Week/Holy Week, Easter

The Services of the Christian Year by Robert E. Webber & Stormie Omartian
Call Number: Ref. BV 4 .C7 v.5

Check out Parts 5 and 6 about Lent and Holy Week.