Topic Six - Giving- Lent/Easter

Giving

 

EYFS - Growing:
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent.
Lent: a time to grow in love to be more like Jesus and to look forward to Easter.
Jesus who is the example we following goodness, love, care, and helpfulness.
Lent is a time for prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
Jesus died on Good Friday.
Jesus rose from the dead at Easter.
Easter is the Church’s celebration of Jesus’ new life.

Year 1 - Change:
Liturgical season of Lent, the use of purple.
Ash Wednesday begins the 40 days of Lent.
Lent: a time to change and to grow spirituality in preparation for the celebration of Easter, through prayer and good deeds.
Palm Sunday of the Passion.
Jesus died on Good Friday.
The Stations of the Cross.
The Resurrection.

Year 2 - Opportunities:
Ash Wednesday.
Lent offers the opportunity to make a new start through prayer, good deeds and giving up things.
The liturgy of Lent and Holy Week.
The Stations of the Cross.
The story of Palm Sunday of the Passion and what happens in the liturgy on that day.
Jesus washing his disciples feet and its meaning.
The suffering and death of Jesus on Good Friday.
The Resurrection of Jesus.

Year 3 - Giving All:
Liturgical season of Lent
Lenten promises, giving through prayer, giving up and good deeds
The Beatitudes
Jesus in the desert
The Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary
The agony in the Garden
Jesus’ sacrifice on Good Friday
The Resurrection

Year 4 - Self-Discipline:
Ash Wednesday.
Lent is a time for self discipline, for prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
Jesus commandment to love our enemies.
Holy week.
The Stations of the Cross.
The sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary.
Easter Triduum.
Liturgy of Maundy Thursday, washing of the feet.
Liturgy of Good Friday – reading of the Passion and the Veneration of the Cross.
The Resurrection.

Year 5 - Sacrifice:
Lent is a time for self sacrifice.
Jesus’ temptation in the desert.
Holy Week.
The Stations of the Cross.
The Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary.
Gethsemane: the agony in the garden.
Holy Thursday, the altar of Repose.
Jesus’ suffering.
The Crucifixion.
Good Friday liturgy of the Passion of the Lord.
The Resurrection.

Year 6 - Death & New Life:
Lent, a time to remember the suffering and death of Jesus.
The raising of Lazarus.
Jesus the Bread of Life.
The liturgy of Friday of the Passion of the Lord.
The liturgy of the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night.
The four parts to the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night.
Jesus rising to new life