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Lent is a time to spiritual renewal. For some that has meant learning to meditate and making time each day for a spiritual practice: reading the scriptures, prayer and worship. Here are some recommended resources.

WCCM.org is the World Community for Christian Meditation. Their website has various tools for getting started in Christian mediation, including a meditation timer. You can take a meditation course or join an international online group. You can subscribe to Daily Wisdom: short excerpts form talks and books by Laurence Freeman, OSB. Freeman has a new book of readings, built on the daily lectionary for Lent. You can find it in print or as an e-book.

Alongside Hope (formerly PWRDF) has a daily Lenten email, you can subscribe here.

Here are three apps which provide Morning and Evening Prayer, also Compline, for every day of the year. All three automatically populate the readings, canticles, and prayers assigned for that day’s offices:

 Forward Day by Day, an Episcopalian outreach that has been distributing monthly booklets of inspirational reflections on the daily lectionary since 1935. They have an iPad app for each day's Morning and Evening Prayer and Compline.

The Prayer Book Society of Canada aims to introduce the Book of Common Prayer to a new generation with apps which put the Daily Office (Morning and Evening Prayer) and several other services right on your phone or tablet. (Android or Apple devices). 

Thirdly, Mission St Clare is an ecumenical website offering daily offices from the American BCP. Unlike the above two apps, it includes music for each service, both chanted psalms and hymns. It is also available in Spanish. Here’s the Apple version, or you can go to the website.

Pray-As-You-Go provides a daily podcast, 10-12 minutes in length: some music, a Bible reading from the Catholic lectionary, questions about the reading, the passage is read again, followed by a prayerful ending. It is produced by the Jesuit Ministries in England. 

Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest, author and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in New Mexico. Try subscribing to his daily meditation at cac.org/category/daily-meditations

The Anglican monastery, the Society of St John the Evangelist, in Boston has online resources, including complines and Sunday services live-streamed. You can subscribe to their Daily Word, a very brief daily message.

Reading Scripture on a daily basis is an excellent spiritual practice. A web search for Bible resources will easily overwhelm you. One approach is The Bible Challenge, which helps you read both Testaments in a year.

To find the lectionary readings for Anglicans each day, go to lectionary.anglican.ca.