LENTEN WEB RESOURCES

This year Holy Thursday and the feast of Passover coincide. It would be most appropriate to remember our Jewish brothers and sister in prayer. However, Rabbi Lawrence Kushner comments, “How would Christians feel if some members of the local synagogue decided to celebrate, just as a creative thing, a Jewish version of the Eucharist – imitate the ceremony of another faith – and then go back to being who they were? The best way for Christians to find out about Judaism is not to mimic Jewish practices but to visit a synagogue or ask a Jewish friend to attend with him or her. It’s not that Christians can’t be at a seder. It’s not that Christians cannot be involved in hearing the Torah read. But they can’t do them as Christians without any Jews around. It doesn’t make any sense”. (Rite, July, 2002). In addition, this practice disrespects the Jewish religion. Ask a Jewish friend to invite you to their home for a real seder meal.

Art and Clip Art

http://www.portalwisconsin.org/pysanky.cfm

Easter egg painting

http://gbgm-umc.org/gifs/holyweek/

Clip art

http://www.xmission.com/~tssphoto/easter/easter.html

Images of Easter – sacred and secular

http://www.ycdsb.edu.on.ca/schools/crec/linksart.htm#Christian%20Art

Collection of art and graphics links

Powerpoints

http://www.bible.claret.org/liturgy/CycleB/liturgy_ppoint.htm

A large collection of downloadable powerpoints from the Claretians

http://www.lssm.org/communication/lenten/

Some powerpoints – use with care. Some nice images, some bit cheesy, and you might want to write your own script. Adaptable, rather than off the shelf!

http://www.catholicmil.org/html/stations.html

Stations powerpoint

Drama

http://www.carey.ac.nz/drama/Linkpages/Easter.html

Drama scripts

http://www.faithlutheran.com/dramas.html

http://www.backtothebible.org/easter/

scripts for 12 voices of easter

INTERACTIVE

http://www.geocities.com/~dolorosa/

Interactive journey through Holy Week

FASTING AND ALMSGIVING

Almsgiving – resources for unemployment Sunday and a Lenten Challenge

http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/unemployment_sunday.htm

http://www.elca.org/hunger/resources/ideas/lentideas.html

STATIONS

Several of these are last years, so apologies if any links have gone down in the meantime.

http://www.cptryon.org/xpipassio/stations/

http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/stations.html

http://www.passionist.org/prc/ways/ - some interesting images

http://www.dur.ac.uk/StChads/chaplain/stats.htm - stations based on photos of Jerusalem; older audience

http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/andre/stations.html - stations of an AIDS sufferer – some beautiful simple graphics and moving text. Again, suitable for older teenagers/adults

http://www.sanmarcos.net/stations/meditations.frameset.html - bit American, but thoughtful, ecumenical and scripture based set of stations.

http://www.ghislainehoward.com/stations3.htm - striking images not words, painted for Merseyside through a project at Hope

http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/mar2001/feature2.asp - very American Catholic, but an interesting model – students could be invited to write their own based on the school/neighbourhood/world of today.

http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/writing/essays/stations.html - similar, but based on theme of homelessness

http://www.smp.org/hs/resourcepage.cfm?article=51 - one teacher’s approach to getting students to write their own stations. Also gives links to SMP, a useful web site.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/uccm/stanfordstations.html - stations round Stamford Campus. Some good reflections

http://www.silk.net/RelEd/ezinelstations2.htm -lesson plan for Stations of the Cross

http://www.justpeace.freeserve.co.uk/jnp/jnp/jnp%20resources/staions%20of%20the%20cross.html - justice and peace stations from St John’s Wigan

http://www.agapenetwork.org/stations.htm - recommended in Praying Each Day

http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/child/stations/

http://www.geocities.com/missionnet/catholic/stations/

Photos of the Lourdes stations

http://www.cjd.org/stories/cross.html

Stations of a migrant

http://198.62.75.1/www1/jsc/TVCmain.html

Not for the words, but for the pictures of the sites in Jerusalem where the events of the stations took place.

http://www.tcweb.co.uk/stationsofthecross/page3.html

Collection of modern art images
– could be turned into powerpoint.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22stations+of+the+cross%22+%2B+powerpoint&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N

Shadow play stations.

FASTING & FEASTING
Lent can be more than a time of fasting; it can be a season of feasting.
We can use Lent to fast from certain things and to feast on others.

Lent is a season in which we can:
Fast from judging others; feast on the Christ dwelling in them.
Fast from emphasis on differences;
feast on the unity of life.
Fast from apparent darkness; feast on the reality of light.
Fast from, thoughts of illness; feast on the healing power of God.
Fast from words that pollute; feast on phrases that purify.
Fast from discontent;
feast on gratitude.
Fast from anger; feast on patience.
Fast from pessimism; feast on optimism.
Fast from worry; feast on divine order.
Fast from complaining;
feast on appreciation.
Fast from negatives; feast on affirmatives.
Fast from unrelenting pressure; feast on unceasing prayer.
Fast from hostility; feast on nonresistance.
Fast from bitterness;
feast on forgiveness.
Fast from self-concern; feast on compassion for others.
Fast from personal anxiety; feast on eternal truth.
Fast from facts that depress; feast on verities that uplift.
Fast from discouragements;
feast on hope.
Fast from lethargy;
feast on enthusiasm.
Fast from thoughts that weaken; feast on promises that inspire.
Fast from shadows of sorrow; feast on the sunlight of serenity.
Fast from idle gossip;
feast on purposeful silence.
Fast from problems that overwhelm; feast on prayer that undergirds.