Resources for Catholic Educators

Lenten Resources Reviews I - Feast Days & Special Days Clipart

The following resource are beautifully made and worth exploring: Angels of Passion: Meditations on Jesus' Last Hours:

Ten strikingly beautiful angel sculptures line the Bridge of Angels in Rome. Each angel holds a symbol of Christ's suffering and death. As you watch this prayerful meditation on the Passion, reflect on what Jesus means to you.

• Activities for Lent - by Coleen Rooney
• All About Lent - Contains a number of articles:
  Balancing the Old and the New by John Bookser Feister;
  Understanding Lent Today by Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk;
  Frequently Asked Questions About Lent -
  Why ashes on Ash Wednesday? - What are the official fasting
  and abstinence rules? - Why are there 40 days in Lent?
• Ashes on Ash Wednesday - Ask Father Mateo
• Ash Wednesday and the Lenten Fast
• Ash Wednesday - Catholic Encyclopedia
• Community Lent
• Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations
• Exploring Lent
• Fast and Abstinence - CIN
• From ashes to Easter - by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda
• Heart Prayers During Lent - by Lucille Perrotta Castro based on the Catholic
  Lectionary
• In the Belly of Lent: Jonah and Us - St. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online
• Lent at the University of Dayton
• Lenten Music - by Eric M. Johnson
• Lenten Reading
• Lent: Time to Review Your Life - by Michael J. Daley
• Links for Learners In the Belly of Lent Jonah and Us - by Lynn and Bob Gillen
• Make Your Own Exodus This Lent - by Michael J. Daley
• Meditations and Prayers for Lent and Easter - by Victor Hoagland, C.P.
• Puzzle - Lenten Season
• 'Repent and believe in the Gospel' - Pope John Paul II, General Audience
• The Observance of Lent I
• The Practice of Lenten Practices
• ‘This is not about you’—thoughts for Good Friday.
  Robin Koning shows us how the Lent/Easter cycle is both about us and yet very much about Jesus.
• University of Dayton - Lenten Meditation I - II - III - IV - V
• What’s the reason for ashes on Ash Wednesday?
• Printable Lenten Calendar for Kids
• Lenten Ideas for Kids {And a Linky!}
• My Lenten Resources - "Here are links to the various Lenten resources that I have to offer."
• “Wailing Wall” Activity for Lent
• Ash Wednesday & Lent - activities, coloring, crafts, games, puzzles, quizzes, etc.
• Joy of Lent by Reverend Raymond Petrucci, Spirituality for Today March 2011
• Arise From The Ashes by Alexander O'Toole, Spirituality for Today March 2011 - We are called to renew ourselves every day, to experience the refreshing and purifying love of God in our lives.
• Following Jesus - According to the Letter or the Spirit? - Ron Rolheiser
• Ash Wednesday & Lent - activities, coloring, crafts, games, puzzles, quizzes, etc.
• Wondrous Encounters: Day by Day through Lent by: Richard Rohr, O.F.M. - Franciscan author Richard Rohr helps us travel day-by-day through Lent in this condensation from his book Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent.
• Lent—Have You Given Up on Giving Up by Susan Vogt, Everyday Catholic
• A Lenten Vocabulary by Jean Grant - A Group Activity for the Family at Home or Your Class Family
• Scrapbooking through Lent - If you are willing to use a creative and entertaining teaching tool to present a serious and sacred season, then you are invited to try scrapbooking through Lent.
• Lenten Disciplines for Junior High Students by C. K. Michaels - For the past six years, I've looked forward to class with my seventh-grade students the week before Ash Wednesday—because old ideas become new again each year.
• A Lent-Easter Wreath by Veronica Glenn -A Lent-Easter wreath can help students pray through Lent—the same way an Advent wreath helps students pray through Advent—and celebrate Easter.
• The Lord's Prayer during Lent by Jeanne Heiberg
• Stones and Blooms for Lent and Easter by Sheila Kearney - "Halfway through Lent is a good time to help students think about their Lenten resolutions and renew the spirit of Lent."
• Names Written in Heaven by Sandi Belleque - "This is a good reflection prayer for anytime. It can be especially powerful during Lent."
• Teaching the Two Sides of Lent by Lee Danesco
• Complete-A-Project Bible Search: Jesus Is Tempted in the Desert by Alice Pfeifer, CSA - This Complete-A-Project Bible Search Activity is for teacher and students (grades 4-6) working together.
• What Have We Missed? by Mary McEntee McGill - Prayer for catechists on Ash Wednesday
• A look back at the history of Lenten practices by Kelley Kepler, Catholic Herald
• A Lenten meditation by Desmond O'Donnell OMI, in Compass - a Review of Topical Theology, Spring 2007, Vol 41 No 3 - A meditation on the story of the Prodigal Son:
  COUNSELLOR: May I ask you why you came to see me?
  CLIENT: Truthfully I don’t think that I need to, but my eldest son thinks that I am manifesting some strange behaviour. I’m here to make him happy.
  COUNSELLOR: Could you tell me about this?
  CLIENT: You read the story in the local paper about my son going off and coming back years later.
  COUNSELLOR: Do you think the story as told is accurate?
  CLIENT: Yes it is, but most people lost sight of me and my feelings in the story. They speak only of ‘a prodigal son’. They concentrate on guilt, blame and forgiveness. Yes, I suppose my young boy was foolish, but people missed my feelings and they misunderstand the deeper experience of what happened to me. Maybe that’s why my elder son sent me to you. Read the remainder of the meditation...

The Anglican parish church of St George the Martyr, Wash Common, a small suburb to the south of Newbury, Berkshire, England, offers evocative paintings by Ken Cooke depicting the XIV stations of the cross.