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O Sacred Head, Now Wounded: A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Pascha to Pentecost
A 48-Day Devotional Liturgy for Remembering Jesus from Pascha to Pentecost God’s offer of eternal life through his work on the cross remains the greatest gift the world has known. But contrary to its importance, Holy Week always seems to pass by quickly and be associated with habitual practices that elicit little reflection. As a result, it can be challenging for Christians to establish routines for meditation on Christ’s redemptive life, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and Pentecost. O Sacred Head, Now Wounded by Jonathan Gibson presents a 48-day devotional liturgy to help readers effectively prepare their hearts from Pascha to Pentecost. Following the same format as Be Thou My Vision , each daily reading includes applicable Scripture readings, hymns, prayers, creeds, and prompts for petition and confession to enrich personal meditation and family worship. This devotional will help individuals and families establish a posture of remembrance and gratitude as they reflect on what Christ has done for us through his temptations, life, trial, passion, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and Pentecost.
488 pages, Hardcover
Published January 9, 2024
About the author
Jonathan Gibson
28 books49 followersRev. Dr. Jonathan Gibson (PhD, Cambridge University) is associate professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary. Dr. Gibson previously served as associate minister at Cambridge Presbyterian Church in England.
He is a contributor to and co-editor (with David Gibson) of From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective. He is also the author of historical and biblical articles in Themelios, Journal of Biblical Literature, and Tyndale Bulletin, as well as “Obadiah” in the NIV Proclamation Bible. His PhD was published as Covenant Continuity and Fidelity: A Study of Inner-Biblical Allusion and Exegesis in Malachi (Bloomsbury).
Dr. Gibson’s academic interests include biblical theology, covenant theology, Genesis chapters 1–3, inner-biblical allusion and exegesis within the Old Testament, Pauline soteriology, and the doctrines of grace.
He is a contributor to and co-editor (with David Gibson) of From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective. He is also the author of historical and biblical articles in Themelios, Journal of Biblical Literature, and Tyndale Bulletin, as well as “Obadiah” in the NIV Proclamation Bible. His PhD was published as Covenant Continuity and Fidelity: A Study of Inner-Biblical Allusion and Exegesis in Malachi (Bloomsbury).
Dr. Gibson’s academic interests include biblical theology, covenant theology, Genesis chapters 1–3, inner-biblical allusion and exegesis within the Old Testament, Pauline soteriology, and the doctrines of grace.
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April 30, 2025
I used this book during the Lent season and Easter. Perhaps my all time favorite Lenten resource. I would listen and sing along with each of the songs and hymns listed, many of them new to me.
I loved the quotes from older Christian sources. The perfect morning time for mom’s resource!
I loved the quotes from older Christian sources. The perfect morning time for mom’s resource!
April 15, 2024
As has been mentioned already, yes perhaps the title should be adjusted to reflect that this daily liturgy is to be used during the 40 days before Easter. Yes it’s confusing that after Easter there are still two more days in the liturgy, but you have to wait until the sixth and seventh Sundays after Resurrection Sunday.
AND YET.
This book was fantastic. I will dock it 0.5 stars for the inaccuracy of its title, but for me it still rounds up to 5 stars. Why? It really helped me commune with the Lord. From the structure of the worship to the honesty and the profoundness of the prayers and meditations. I loved that Gibson drew from the universal church throughout time to compose this devotional. From the Fathers, to devotional figures from the medieval era, to the reformers and puritans, even bringing in more recent contributions from outside the “reformed” camp (E.B. Pusey!) this liturgical book is simultaneously reformational in its theology and catholic in its scope. Beautiful.
AND YET.
This book was fantastic. I will dock it 0.5 stars for the inaccuracy of its title, but for me it still rounds up to 5 stars. Why? It really helped me commune with the Lord. From the structure of the worship to the honesty and the profoundness of the prayers and meditations. I loved that Gibson drew from the universal church throughout time to compose this devotional. From the Fathers, to devotional figures from the medieval era, to the reformers and puritans, even bringing in more recent contributions from outside the “reformed” camp (E.B. Pusey!) this liturgical book is simultaneously reformational in its theology and catholic in its scope. Beautiful.
April 1, 2024
I’m someone who needs help praying. Praying these liturgical books by Gibson out loud has blessed my communion with God. This one was no different. They aren’t fancy but I’ll keep using them for their straightforward simplicity.
April 13, 2026
Really good devotional for this season of the Christian calendar. I thought the Advent one went harder tho. Once again rich theology, good meditations, and thoughtful prayers.
Some of my favorite meditations. They’re a bit long, but worth reading in full:
“Oh what love! Christ would not entrust our redemption to angels, to millions of angels; but he would come himself, and in person suffer; he would not give a low and a base price for us clay. He would buy us with a great ransom, so as he might over buy us, and none could over-bid him in his market for souls. If there had been millions of more believers, and many heavens, without any new bargain his blood should have bought them all, and all these many heavens should have smelled one rose of life; Christ should have been one and the same tree of life in them all. Oh, we under-bid, and undervalue that Prince of love, who did overvalue us; we will not sell all we have to buy him; he sold all he had, and himself too, to buy us.” S. Rutherford
“Cast your eyes among all created beings, survey the universe, observe strength in one, beauty in a second, faithfulness in a third, wisdom in a fourth; but you shall find none excelling in them all as Christ does. Bread has one quality, water another, raiment another, physical another; but none has all in itself as Christ has: he is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded, and whatever a soul can desire is found in him.” J. Flavel
“In him I have an offering, an altar, a temple, a priest, a sun, a shield, a Savior, a Shepherd, a hiding place, a resting place, food, medicine, riches, honor, wisdom, righteousness, holiness; in short, everything.” J. Newton
Some of my favorite meditations. They’re a bit long, but worth reading in full:
“Oh what love! Christ would not entrust our redemption to angels, to millions of angels; but he would come himself, and in person suffer; he would not give a low and a base price for us clay. He would buy us with a great ransom, so as he might over buy us, and none could over-bid him in his market for souls. If there had been millions of more believers, and many heavens, without any new bargain his blood should have bought them all, and all these many heavens should have smelled one rose of life; Christ should have been one and the same tree of life in them all. Oh, we under-bid, and undervalue that Prince of love, who did overvalue us; we will not sell all we have to buy him; he sold all he had, and himself too, to buy us.” S. Rutherford
“Cast your eyes among all created beings, survey the universe, observe strength in one, beauty in a second, faithfulness in a third, wisdom in a fourth; but you shall find none excelling in them all as Christ does. Bread has one quality, water another, raiment another, physical another; but none has all in itself as Christ has: he is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded, and whatever a soul can desire is found in him.” J. Flavel
“In him I have an offering, an altar, a temple, a priest, a sun, a shield, a Savior, a Shepherd, a hiding place, a resting place, food, medicine, riches, honor, wisdom, righteousness, holiness; in short, everything.” J. Newton
June 11, 2026
Obviously there’s a lot of good stuff in here, and my frustration isn’t related to the various prayers, texts, and meditations gathered into this volume.
I was incredibly disappointed with the quality of the liturgies and with how it was marketed.
On the marketing side, it’s called a devotional from Pascha to Pentecost, but that’s not true. It’s a Lenten devotional. Pascha is the season of eastertide, and I don’t think a service for Easter Day, Ascension Sunday, and Pentecost Sunday is really adequate to move from Easter to Pentecost. Why call it that rather than just a Lenten devotional? It just seems silly.
The other frustration is that there are several sections that feel not well assembled. Why include 3 bookmarks when I can’t think of a reason to use more than 2?(and even then, I didn’t even find the musical index helpful enough to bookmark) Why is the service for Palm Sunday 4 days early, falling on a Wednesday. Why is there a service missing, so that you can’t use it every day from Ash Wednesday to Easter? Why modernize the Gloria Patri text when that doesn’t work with the tune suggested to go with it? Why suggest singing these hymn texts when there’s no music, many don’t name a tune to sing it to in the back, and even many of the tune names given are too obscure to be found in the Trinity or Trinity Psalter Hymnals? Why use different translations of known and singable texts so that they are no longer singable? Why is the Creed for Easter the Athanasian Creed part 2, which you’re not expected to finish for 40 days until you get to the service for Ascension Sunday which has the Athanasian Creed part 3?
There’s several elements that feel like they weren’t thought through or they were hastily assembled to make a deadline. Having thrown together plenty of not very good liturgies, I can recognize when someone else did the same.
Of course it is a very pretty book, so that’s nice
I was incredibly disappointed with the quality of the liturgies and with how it was marketed.
On the marketing side, it’s called a devotional from Pascha to Pentecost, but that’s not true. It’s a Lenten devotional. Pascha is the season of eastertide, and I don’t think a service for Easter Day, Ascension Sunday, and Pentecost Sunday is really adequate to move from Easter to Pentecost. Why call it that rather than just a Lenten devotional? It just seems silly.
The other frustration is that there are several sections that feel not well assembled. Why include 3 bookmarks when I can’t think of a reason to use more than 2?(and even then, I didn’t even find the musical index helpful enough to bookmark) Why is the service for Palm Sunday 4 days early, falling on a Wednesday. Why is there a service missing, so that you can’t use it every day from Ash Wednesday to Easter? Why modernize the Gloria Patri text when that doesn’t work with the tune suggested to go with it? Why suggest singing these hymn texts when there’s no music, many don’t name a tune to sing it to in the back, and even many of the tune names given are too obscure to be found in the Trinity or Trinity Psalter Hymnals? Why use different translations of known and singable texts so that they are no longer singable? Why is the Creed for Easter the Athanasian Creed part 2, which you’re not expected to finish for 40 days until you get to the service for Ascension Sunday which has the Athanasian Creed part 3?
There’s several elements that feel like they weren’t thought through or they were hastily assembled to make a deadline. Having thrown together plenty of not very good liturgies, I can recognize when someone else did the same.
Of course it is a very pretty book, so that’s nice
May 20, 2026
What an incredible gift to the Church! Gibson covers theologians, authors, poets, hymn writers, and liturgies from Clement of Rome all the way up to the present day, in a glorious, unifying devotional journey through the Paschal season. Of particular note and impact for me were the prayers and writings of Ambrose, Anselm of Canterbury, Augustine, Donne, Pascal, Richard of Chichester, Thomas à Kempis, and Henry Thornton.
Besides the incredible encouragement and edification this book was to my spirit and faith, I also had the profound joy of walking through it with my friend, Phil. Thank you, brother, for the hours of prayer, vulnerability, and encouragement you have been to me!
Besides the incredible encouragement and edification this book was to my spirit and faith, I also had the profound joy of walking through it with my friend, Phil. Thank you, brother, for the hours of prayer, vulnerability, and encouragement you have been to me!
April 29, 2025
This book completely changed my devotionals. I am so thankful for discovering this gem and will be using it next Easter again! (I also plan on getting his collection of liturgies for Christmas.)
I highly recommend this for anyone looking for greater depth/richness in devotions and is unsatisfied with the typical devotional format as I was.
I highly recommend this for anyone looking for greater depth/richness in devotions and is unsatisfied with the typical devotional format as I was.
June 8, 2025
Liturgy slows me down to consider the thoughts of theologians through the ages, lyrics of hymns, creeds repeated in sequence, and prayers of others. And of course each day also includes Readings from The Law, Scripture passage, and one theological question answered. These have centered my mind during an especially busy season. My favorite part of the daily liturgy was the opening meditation.
“Little did they dream, as they bound the fatal wood upon His shoulder, by whose power that tree was made to grow, and from whom the beings who bore Him to the death drew their existence. So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood. Oh the depth of Jesus’ love to sinners!” -Octavius Winslow (1808-1878) pg. 155
“Little did they dream, as they bound the fatal wood upon His shoulder, by whose power that tree was made to grow, and from whom the beings who bore Him to the death drew their existence. So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood. Oh the depth of Jesus’ love to sinners!” -Octavius Winslow (1808-1878) pg. 155
April 14, 2026
This is a good liturgical-type devotional. It takes some time to do it right, but you will be rewarded by the structure and rhythm of daily readings and prayers.
April 5, 2026
A great lent devotional, I just liked be thou my vision better
January 31, 2024
The title of this book is strange and misleading. The author obviously doesn't like the word "Easter", and uses "Pascha" (which is the Greek New Testament word for "Passover") instead (p. 13). This made me think this was a devotional book for the 50-day period between Easter and Pentecost – and I got quite excited, since such books are quite rare. But no – Gibson then redefines Pascha to mean the period usually known as Lent (p. 34). So this devotion is for use *before* Easter (the Bible readings, which include all of Lamentations for example, back this up), with two devotions for Ascension Sunday and Pentecost tacked on at the end. (And Gibson is completely wrong when he says Ascension Sunday has been "observed by some churches within the Reformed tradition since the sixteenth century" – in fact, they observed Ascension *Day*, which always falls on a Thursday.) In this way, the book is deeply disappointing.
The devotions follow a traditional Reformed liturgy in their elements and order, but adapted for private or family use, and thus missing the sermon and the Lord's Supper. Each day follows the pattern of Meditation – Call to worship – Adoration – Reading of the law – Confession of sin – Assurance of pardon – Creed – Praise – Catechism question – Prayer for illumination – Bible reading – Prayer of reflection – Prayer of intercession – Lord's Prayer – Benediction – Postlude. This is all solidly Reformed. The meditations consist of quotes from people all through church history, but no-one after Herman Bavinck (1854–1921).
This volume is attractively presented in a slip case with three ribbon bookmarks.
The devotions follow a traditional Reformed liturgy in their elements and order, but adapted for private or family use, and thus missing the sermon and the Lord's Supper. Each day follows the pattern of Meditation – Call to worship – Adoration – Reading of the law – Confession of sin – Assurance of pardon – Creed – Praise – Catechism question – Prayer for illumination – Bible reading – Prayer of reflection – Prayer of intercession – Lord's Prayer – Benediction – Postlude. This is all solidly Reformed. The meditations consist of quotes from people all through church history, but no-one after Herman Bavinck (1854–1921).
This volume is attractively presented in a slip case with three ribbon bookmarks.
February 14, 2024
This is not a devotional/liturgy from Pascha to Pentecost. It's Lent, Holy Week, Easter (which is usually called Pascha) and Pentecost. Its subject matter is not suitable for the season of feasting and rejoicing between the Resurrection and Pentecost; it's contemplative and dwelling on our sin and repentance—for Lent.
The liturgy sections are drawn from various sources, all Reformed; and while I'd like to love it, I miss the richness of the language of the traditional liturgies.
In trying to make up his own language, titles, and traditions to somehow honor more time-tested ones he's missed the mark—especially with the extremely misleading (in fact flat-out untrue) subtitle.
The pretty embossed "cover" is actually the slip box, while the book itself is very plain. And for a book that you're to progress through day by day I have absolutely no idea why it has *three* different-colored ribbon bookmarks. It feels like this was meant to appeal to book collectors and not actually to be read at all.
The liturgy sections are drawn from various sources, all Reformed; and while I'd like to love it, I miss the richness of the language of the traditional liturgies.
In trying to make up his own language, titles, and traditions to somehow honor more time-tested ones he's missed the mark—especially with the extremely misleading (in fact flat-out untrue) subtitle.
The pretty embossed "cover" is actually the slip box, while the book itself is very plain. And for a book that you're to progress through day by day I have absolutely no idea why it has *three* different-colored ribbon bookmarks. It feels like this was meant to appeal to book collectors and not actually to be read at all.
April 12, 2026
Good BCP appetizer. Only real downside to it is that it can't seem to figure out whether it prayer book for the season of Easter (as the cover and introduction imply), or for Lent (as the actual content and layout provide).
April 19, 2025
While I appreciated the concept behind “O, Sacred Head Now Wounded,” I found myself slightly less enamored with it compared to the first two books in the series.
At 48 days in length, exceeding Lent itself by 8 days, this Lenten Devotional became somewhat monotonous. Unlike its predecessor, “Be Thou My Vision,” which offered a diverse range of content to keep readers engaged through repeated readings. This work felt somewhat repetitive towards the end. It didn’t help that this had a lot of similar scripture readings to the Advent devotional, that ended just six weeks before this one started. And while skipping days is entirely on me, I felt like I was skipping more days in this work than I ever was in the last two installments.
However, I did appreciate the author's continuation of providing readings from various Christian traditions and historical periods. I enjoyed the continuation of including Psalm 72 at the conclusion of each liturgy. I also enjoyed that this work carried the tradition of giving us a sturdy paperweight and spine design in anticipation of use and reuse.
Despite these minor qualms, I genuinely enjoyed this work. It serves as a testament to our pursuit of Reformed Catholicity and represents a meaningful retrieval of the historic reformation through its readings and liturgies.
I look forward to revisiting 'O, Sacred Head Now Wounded' next year, and fully intend to go back to the ordinary time one in the mean time.
At 48 days in length, exceeding Lent itself by 8 days, this Lenten Devotional became somewhat monotonous. Unlike its predecessor, “Be Thou My Vision,” which offered a diverse range of content to keep readers engaged through repeated readings. This work felt somewhat repetitive towards the end. It didn’t help that this had a lot of similar scripture readings to the Advent devotional, that ended just six weeks before this one started. And while skipping days is entirely on me, I felt like I was skipping more days in this work than I ever was in the last two installments.
However, I did appreciate the author's continuation of providing readings from various Christian traditions and historical periods. I enjoyed the continuation of including Psalm 72 at the conclusion of each liturgy. I also enjoyed that this work carried the tradition of giving us a sturdy paperweight and spine design in anticipation of use and reuse.
Despite these minor qualms, I genuinely enjoyed this work. It serves as a testament to our pursuit of Reformed Catholicity and represents a meaningful retrieval of the historic reformation through its readings and liturgies.
I look forward to revisiting 'O, Sacred Head Now Wounded' next year, and fully intend to go back to the ordinary time one in the mean time.
July 2, 2025
3.5. I loved the Advent version. While I appreciate this attempt and am glad to have this to reference, this volume deserves less love. The theme just felt stale here. The perspective on the cross as our source of forgiveness is drilled over and over, but this repeatedly fails to move wider or deeper than that. In this, the reformed perspective of the author limits the possibilities. For Paul, the cross event has wide ranging effects and results for our lives and how they ought to be lived. It does not feel that way here. By turning our eyes simply upon what Jesus does for us and rarely towards what he does in us, the cross felt simply like a therapeutic reminder of our forgiveness here. It carried less power, at least for me. When Paul knew nothing but Jesus and him crucified in the Corinthian context, I don’t think this limited perspective was what he had in mind. I long for Reformed folks to expand their horizons in orthodox ways.
May 19, 2024
Since today was Pentecost, we got to finish this liturgy as it took a break after Easter and came back for the last couple of weekends (Ascension and Pentecost). Not much more to say than I have for the others, as it has been such a fantastic resource and blessing in our life to do this during daily family worship. Between this one and his Advent liturgy, we use his other (Be Thou My Vision) on repeat, with some of our own tweaks for reading plans and such—anyway, beautiful as expected! The only reason I'm giving 4 stars is due to some confusing editing mistakes that will likely be fixed in future versions, so maybe stay on the lookout for that. Soli Deo Gloria.
May 25, 2026
I picked this up as a Lent devotional at the recommendation of a friend. I really appreciated being drawn into a more liturgical approach to pondering the season. The author's pattern of daily readings took a while to get used to but then got familiar. Being exposed to more writings from church history and other liturgical writings was great. The only thing I would change is to pause my other devotional reading next time, as I often skipped the Bible reading portion because I was shorter on time. I also wish the book had as beautiful a cover as the box it came in. Lastly, I think it's a little deceiving to say that it's a "daily" book from Pascha to Pentecost when the readings pause at Easter Sunday and then include one reading each for Ascension Sunday and Pentecost Sunday.
April 2, 2026
So, in general this is a delightful set of liturgies, but I do think the Advent book is better. If I was just rating based on that, it would probably be a very nice 3.5/4 stars.
However, I can't figure out how this book numbers the days of Lent for the life of me. Day 1 isn't Ash Wednesday. I think it starts on the Sunday after. Also, Palm Sunday is Day 37, but Maundy Thursday is Day 43 and that's not how math works!
(I will probably use it again next year. I just needed to rant a little.)
However, I can't figure out how this book numbers the days of Lent for the life of me. Day 1 isn't Ash Wednesday. I think it starts on the Sunday after. Also, Palm Sunday is Day 37, but Maundy Thursday is Day 43 and that's not how math works!
(I will probably use it again next year. I just needed to rant a little.)
April 1, 2024
I appreciate this liturgy form of daily devotions through Lent. (I also used the Advent one in December.) The style is easy to follow and covers praise/adoration, petition, confession of sin, and more. I will use this again in a Lent yet to come.
My favorite part is the hymns used each day. I would look them up on Spotify or Youtube and learned some new Lenten hymns. It was a nice touch.
My favorite part is the hymns used each day. I would look them up on Spotify or Youtube and learned some new Lenten hymns. It was a nice touch.
May 12, 2024
This daily liturgy for Easter is very good. Having something daily to read and meditate on was helpful as I prepared for Easter. This is only the second of these daily liturgies I have ever read, the first being the author’s Christmas one. And I think of the two the Christmas one ministered to me more, not sure why, but still this book was solid and one I will probably use again next year.
April 21, 2025
Having read the three of Jonathan Gibson's liturgical devotionals now, I appreciate the church calendar in a new light. While I do not think it is necessary to celebrate all of the holidays mentioned in this book (or his others), this still serves as an exceptionally helpful resource in connecting the dots for me historically as well as better appreciating (and not forgetting!) the important "chain of events" in celebrating Jesus via the holidays.
April 9, 2024
this daily devotion is so helpful in remembering Christ. so so helpful.
the flow of each day just draws you repeatedly back to worship of our God, which is so so sweet.
this daily devotion is one that shouldn't just be kept for resurrection sunday, but daily throughout the year :)
the flow of each day just draws you repeatedly back to worship of our God, which is so so sweet.
this daily devotion is one that shouldn't just be kept for resurrection sunday, but daily throughout the year :)
March 31, 2024
Another solid liturgy by Gibson. Some of these ‘meditations’ at the start of the daily liturgy are incredibly profound.
June 5, 2026
4.5. I always enjoy this series of devotionals. First time through this particular one, but it's enriching. Missed a few days here and there but I'm counting it as read.
March 31, 2024
Love these devotionals.
May 13, 2024
This is volume 3 in a series - a cache of gold, silver, and fine gems. A commonplace book of quotes, prayers, Scripture all rolled together into liturgical rhythms for meditating upon Christ’s Resurrection, Ascension, and Pentecost.
April 8, 2026
In the same vein as his Advent devotional, but with improvements. I appreciated using the weekly collects from the Book of Common Prayer. Most of the prayers and almost all of the meditations were excellent. I wasn't much of a fan of the meditative prayer by Robert Grant worked through almost every day of the week. Another minor quibble is that the postlude hymn was a modernization of an otherwise perfectly familiar song.
April 1, 2024
Mixed feelings on this one:
- I feel kinda bad rating this three stars only, because I did really enjoy the other two books in this liturgy series (Be Thou My Vision and O Come, O Come Emmanuel).
- I feel like the content of this book didn't match what it was purported to be. As the subtitle said, I assumed this would actually be "a liturgy for daily worship from Pascha to Pentecost", meaning there would be daily readings from the start of the Easter season through to Pentecost (in about mid-May this year). If so, what a unique book! I've seen plenty of Lent books. But if this did extend all the way to Pentecost, it would have been really, really something different. However, after Resurrection Sunday, there are only two more readings: Ascension Sunday (sixth Sunday after Resurrection Sunday) and Pentecost Sunday (seventh Sunday after Resurrection Sunday). So the "daily" aspect falls apart after Easter. I know I'm not following the instructions, but I feel like the meditative, habit-building aspect of this will be lost if I wait another six weeks to read the next entry. I dunno. It just feels like it defeats the purpose.
- This isn't a daily reading plan from Pascha through to Pentecost. What it is, however, is a solid liturgy-style devotional that would be quite enriching and helpful if you're looking to sink your teeth into something more meaty than the average Lent devotional (pun unintended, apologies to my more traditional friends). The content as usual is solid, but I'm just a bit miffed about the fact that it doesn't do what it says on the label.
- I feel kinda bad rating this three stars only, because I did really enjoy the other two books in this liturgy series (Be Thou My Vision and O Come, O Come Emmanuel).
- I feel like the content of this book didn't match what it was purported to be. As the subtitle said, I assumed this would actually be "a liturgy for daily worship from Pascha to Pentecost", meaning there would be daily readings from the start of the Easter season through to Pentecost (in about mid-May this year). If so, what a unique book! I've seen plenty of Lent books. But if this did extend all the way to Pentecost, it would have been really, really something different. However, after Resurrection Sunday, there are only two more readings: Ascension Sunday (sixth Sunday after Resurrection Sunday) and Pentecost Sunday (seventh Sunday after Resurrection Sunday). So the "daily" aspect falls apart after Easter. I know I'm not following the instructions, but I feel like the meditative, habit-building aspect of this will be lost if I wait another six weeks to read the next entry. I dunno. It just feels like it defeats the purpose.
- This isn't a daily reading plan from Pascha through to Pentecost. What it is, however, is a solid liturgy-style devotional that would be quite enriching and helpful if you're looking to sink your teeth into something more meaty than the average Lent devotional (pun unintended, apologies to my more traditional friends). The content as usual is solid, but I'm just a bit miffed about the fact that it doesn't do what it says on the label.
May 30, 2024
The third in Jonathan Gibson’s series of daily worship liturgies. It has a most misleading title as it is not “from Pascha to Pentecost,” but rather is a Lenten devotional that includes some Sunday’s after Easter (I started on Easter, hence me finishing it rather late!)
I appreciated his use of historic creeds, commentaries, and prayers. It’s a lovely book to use as a worship guide, but you can save yourself some money and use the book of common prayer instead. :)
I appreciated his use of historic creeds, commentaries, and prayers. It’s a lovely book to use as a worship guide, but you can save yourself some money and use the book of common prayer instead. :)
May 18, 2024
I adored the content of this book!
As others have noted, it was (disappointingly) mis-marketed as post-Easter material, but that aside, the content itself was fab and added a lot to my Lenten experience. I’m glad Crossway tipped me off in advance that it was for the Lenten journey so I could take advantage of it.
As others have noted, it was (disappointingly) mis-marketed as post-Easter material, but that aside, the content itself was fab and added a lot to my Lenten experience. I’m glad Crossway tipped me off in advance that it was for the Lenten journey so I could take advantage of it.
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