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Thank you for these resources! It looks like the link on the About Lent... page to Pr. Pless' church year notes is now returning 404 Not Found.

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A few things I'm aware of that are available for free online:

Internet Archive has 'The 1529 Holy Week and Easter Sermons of Dr. Martin Luther' available to borrow with a free account. https://archive.org/details/1529holyweekeast0000luth

The 1918 edition of the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnbook is available on Google Books, including its Passion hymnody. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Evangelical_Lutheran_Hymn_book/ZxmgbM_XXtcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP9&printsec=frontcover

Not Lutheran, but Catholic Art Gallery at Catholic Library has a lot of historical art pieces sorted by theme and topic. https://catholiclibrary.org/art/

Edward Riojas's passion and crucifixion paintings are great.

https://edriojasartist.com/original-works/

https://edriojasartist.com/giclee-prints-2/giclee-prints/

Wikipedia/Wikisource has the English text of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers available. The index is here, and the links under "Wikisource has original text related to this article" take you to volume one and two. Chrysostom's writings on the Passion narratives would be a good place to start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers

For those wanting to work on their Greek instead, a good chunk of the same Patristic texts in Greek are available with a free account at the Thesaurus Lingua Graecae. https://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/index.php

Spanish devotions for Lent: A PDF of the Q1 2024 "The Word of the Lord Endures Forever" Spanish daily devotional series is available for free download on the Lutheran Heritage Foundation website. https://pubsearch.lhfmissions.org/

And Lutheran Public Radio plays seasonal and reverent Lutheran music. https://lutheranpublicradio.org/

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Starting to read Jesus Only, by P.E. Kretzmann. It's a series of Lent and post Easter sermons. It runs from Quinquagesima (Sunday before Lent) through Trinity Sunday.

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