Lent 2008

Welcome to our Lent 2008 pages

| Sunday Readings | Liturgies | RCIA related | Prayer Resources (personal and/ or group) |

The Gospels of Lent

From these pages, there are links to the First and Second Readings of each Sunday
 

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First Sunday

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Second Sunday

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Third Sunday

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Fourth Sunday

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Fifth Sunday

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Of possible interest for catechists and people preparing to be baptised or received into the Church:

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The Wellspring of Baptism
These reflections take us back - or forward - to our Baptism.
We take each of the symbols used in Baptism and consider what they mean for us now.

 

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On the Threshold of Mystery: the Creed
This Wellspring is a place to stop and to savour Christian belief.
Here you are invited to sit by a series of mini-wellsprings - 
and reflect on belief....        to go to the point at which your knowledge and understanding end -
and dare to gaze into Mystery

 

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Prayer resources

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Exodus: God's People on a Journey
from slavery to liberation...
from fear to trust...
from exile to homeland...

 

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Martha's Prayer Cupboard
Are you prepared to make a cup-of-coffee’s worth of time available
to try something from Martha’s Prayer Cupboard?
If so -click on the coffee!

 

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Via Dolorosa: A Way of the Cross
Links incidents from that Way - with the Ways of Sorrow in our world.
People still walk them -
and the Christ in them invites the Christ in us to walk alongside....

 

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Women of the Triduum
Jesus held women in high regard. They were his companions in life - and they accompanied him on the last fateful journey.

 

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Also available: Showing the Way - our Lent project with material for group and individual use.

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Liturgies

bullet Laying down stones (Based on Year C Gospels)
Jesus asks, "Who condemns you?
 
bullet Coming Home to God: a Penitential Liturgy (based on the Prodigal Son)
We have said to God –
“Give me what I deserve – what is rightfully mine”
and when He seems to refuse, 
we say that He has not answered our prayer:

 
bullet Raised on Eagles' Wings
Thus says the Lord,
"See how I have freed you from the house of oppression
and borne you as if on eagles' wings
to bring you to myself."

 
bullet A God who heals
Come to the Lord all you who are troubled and sad
Come to our Lord, who is tenderness and compassion;
the God who heals every one of your ills.
 
bullet A Liturgy of Awakening
In the beginning …
In the beginning the earth was a formless void…Darkness covered the face of the deep.
And the Divine Breath of God moved over the waters…

 
bullet A Liturgy of Loss and Lament (Good Friday)
As if it were not enough, Almighty God, Creator of the Universe,
that You should, through the power of Your Word,
call into being all that is known
and all that remains to be discovered:

 
bullet Called by Name
At our Baptism, water was poured over our heads:
and we were named
and became children of God.

 
bullet Friends of Jesus (a Holy Week Liturgy for Children)
We have come together to remember Jesus.
 
bullet Transforming Encounter
(a Reconciliation liturgy)
We have come at the invitation of our God,
called into this place
called into this time
called into the presence of God...

 
bullet Voices around the Cross
When Jesus was crucified, most of his friends and disciples abandoned him.
Only a few people were there to witness the last hours of his life.
As they gazed upon Jesus in those final moments, what did they see?

 
bullet Way of Sorrows for the modern world
 
bullet We are people chosen
We are people, chosen from our generations
to be Witnesses to the great Covenant that exists
between the Creator and His Creation.

 
bullet Liturgies in Solidarity
For people shocked and shamed by revelations of abuse in all its forms within the Church and who want to bring that to the foot of the Cross - and to pray for the healing of all those who have been harmed.

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