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A
Guide to Lent and Easter for Young People
The Easter Tree
Heart Prayer for Children During Holy Week and Easter
Heart Prayer for Children During Lent
Holy Week: Sharing With Children
Frequently Asked Questions about Lent
These questions and answers about Lent are easier to
understand and are not as long as the questions and
answers on the first site.
Give,
Pray, Fast
This short page explains the three pillars of lent -
almsgiving, fasting, and praying.
Lenten
Customs
This site explains Lenten customs and practices,
including Baptism, Ashes, Giving something up,
Scrutinies, Penance, Prayer, fasting, and almsgiving,
Stations of the Cross, Blessed palms, and Triduum
rituals.
A
Prayer a Day: Minute Meditations
Got less than a minute to pray? This site is
perfect for you! There are short meditations that
change daily and can provide a quiet spot in your busy
day.
Sacred
Space: Daily Prayer Online
This site by the Irish Jesuits provides ten minute
meditations, with on screen guidance and scripture
chosen specially for each day of the Church year.
The Season of Lent
Ken Collins
gives a short explanation of Lent in both the Eastern
and Western churches.
Jerusalem:
The Way of the Cross
Scroll down past the reflection and prayer to look
at photographs of actual sites along the Via Crucis (Way
of the Cross) in Jerusalem.
Praying the Stations of the Cross
Stations of the
Cross
Stations
of the Cross Beads
Take a look at this ad for a
new type of bead (like Rosary Beads). Instead of
10 regular beads in a decade, Stations of the Cross
Beads have miniature portrayals of the events of each
station between the beads.
Stations
of the Cross by Seventh Graders
The introduction to this
school site has an excellent explanation of how the
custom of Stations of the Cross started. Then each
station is explained and illustrated by one of the
seventh graders at Arcadia Catholic School in Wisconsin.
Stations of the Cross Coloring Book
This PDF file has a printable coloring page for each of
the fourteen Stations of the Cross.
Stations of the Cross Coloring Book II
Stations
of the Cross for Children
The simple
words and large type on this site make it an excellent
choice for younger students. First the students
look at what is happening to Jesus and then they are
asked to look into their own hearts.
Stations of the Cross from My Friend Magazine
Stations
of the Cross: Pictures
This site
opens with a most unusual picture of Jesus with His
cross by Hieronymous Bosch. Then, for each
station, there are at least two pictures by famous
artists. Viewers are asked to supply their own
meditations.
The
Way of the Cross
Simple
pictures and short prayers and meditations make this an
easy site to use for a virtual Way of the Cross.
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