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Stations of the Cross
Here are a few suggestions for group
activities with your students during the lenten period:
- Introduce your class to as many different versions
of the Stations of the Cross as possible. Use the samples given
above and any others that you can find.
- Divide your class into groups of 3-4. Tell them
they need to prepare an illustrated meditation for each of the
Stations of the Cross to be presented in a prayerful way the rest
of the class. Each group needs to be respectful of the topic of
their assignment, but as creative as possible in preparing and
presenting it.
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- Give the students some suggessions:
- Draw each of the stations on poster paper. Write a meditation for
each Station. Two readers alternate in reading these meditations while
a third/fourth student holds up the appropiate poster. Gentle music
could be played in the background.
- Students present a live tableau of each of the Stations - on a cue
from the reader they take up to appropriate posture and freeze until
the meditation has been read and the next Station is announced. Here
also the meditations for the Stations can be written by the students.
- The "computer buffs" in your class might want to produce a digital
Station of the Cross.
- Have the students dig through magazines for scenes were they see
"Jesus suffering in others". Use these to make the Stations of the
Cross.
- Have students write journal entries over a period of several weeks.
Each day they could reflect in writing on one Station. At the end,
pick the best reflection for each Station, or take excerpts from different
journals on each Station. Use the script thus produced to lead the
whole class into a prayerful reflection on the Stations of the Cross.
- Students could choose one (or a few) of the Station(s) and write
down the possible thoughts of each of the characters as they were
living through these events.
- If you have any other suggestions, send them to me by using the
form that you will find HERE, or send me an
e-mail Gilles Côté.
I will post the suggestions in the next two issues of the Religious
Education Webzine
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