Compulsory Scripture
Unit Content 1 (Lent):
Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus
Unit Content 2 (Holy week):
John 13:12-15 The Washing of the Feet
Unit Content 4 (Advent):
Isaiah 9:6 For us a child is born
Unit Content 5 (Christmas):
Matthew 2:1-12 The Visit of the Wise Men
Luke1:5-25 The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold
Luke 2:22-38 Jesus is Presented in the Temple
Storytelling
Unit Content 1 (Lent):
Our Lenten Prayer Place
Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus
Unit Content 2 (Holy week):
John 13:12-15 The Washing of the Feet
Unit Content 3 (Easter):
Our Easter Prayer Place
Unit Content 4 (Advent):
Our Advent Prayer Place
Out of the Darkness
Unit Content 5 (Christmas):
Matthew 2:1-12 The Visit of the Wise Men
Church Documents
Catechism of the Catholic Church – Lent and Holy Week
589 – Jesus gave scandal above all when he identified his merciful conduct toward sinners with God’s own attitude toward them. He went so far as to hint that by sharing the table of sinners he was admitting them to the messianic banquet. But it was most especially by forgiving sins that Jesus placed the religious authorities of Israel on the horns of a dilemma. Were they not entitled to demand in consternation, “Who can forgive sins but God alone?” By forgiving sins Jesus either is blaspheming as a man who made himself God’s equal, or is speaking the truth and his person really does make present and reveal God’s name.
1009 – Death is transformed by Christ. Jesus, the Son of God, also himself suffered the death that is part of the human condition. Yet, despite his anguish he faced death, he accepted it as an act of complete and free submission to the Father’s will. The obedience of Jesus has transformed the curse of death into a blessing.
1430 – Jesus’ call to conversion and penance, like that of the prophets before him, does not aim first at outward works, “sackcloth and ashes,” fasting and mortification, but at the conversion of the heart, interior conversion. Without this, such penances remain sterile and false; however, interior conversion urges expression in visible signs, gestures and works of penance.
1490 – The movement of return to God, called conversion and repentance, entails sorrow for and abhorrence of sins committed, and the firm purpose of sinning no more in the future. Conversion touches the past and the future and is nourished by hope in God’s mercy.
1818 – The virtue of hope responds to the aspiration to happiness which God has placed in the heart of every man; it takes up the hopes that inspire men’s activities and purifies them so as to order them to the Kingdom of heaven; it keeps man from discouragement; it sustains him during times of abandonment; it opens up his heart in expectation of eternal beatitude. Buoyed up by hope, he is preserved from selfishness and led to the happiness that flows from charity.
Catechism of the Catholic Church – Easter
655 – Finally, Christ’s Resurrection – and the risen Christ himself – is the principle and source of our future resurrection: “Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep…. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.” The risen Christ lives in the hearts of his faithful while they await that fulfillment. In Christ, Christians “Have tasted … the powers of the age to come” and their lives are swept up by Christ into the heart of divine life, so that they may “live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.”
733 – “God is Love” and love is his first gift, containing all others. “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given us.”
1002 – Christ will raise us up ‘on the last day’; but it is also true that, in a certain way, we have already risen with Christ. For, by virtue of the Holy Spirit, Christian life is already now on earth a participation in the death and Resurrection of Christ. And you were buried with him in Baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
1168 – Beginning with the Easter Triduum as its source of light, the new age of the Resurrection fills the whole liturgical year with its brilliance. Gradually, on either side of this source, the year is transfigured by the liturgy. It really is a “year of the Lord’s favour.” The economy of salvation is at work within the framework of time, but since its fulfillment in the Passover of Jesus and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the culmination of history is anticipated “as a foretaste,” and the kingdom of God enters into our time.
Catechism of the Catholic Church – Advent/Christmas
423 – We believe and confess that Jesus of Nazareth, born a Jew of a daughter of Israel at Bethlehem at the time of King Herod the Great and the emperor Caesar Augustus, a carpenter by trade, who died crucified in Jerusalem under the procurator Pontius Pilate during the reign of the emperor Tiberius, is the eternal Son of God made man. He ‘came from God’, ‘descended from heaven’, and ‘came in the flesh’. For ‘the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father… And from his fullness have we all received, grace upon grace’.
522 – The coming of God’s Son to earth is an event of such immensity that God willed to prepare for it over centuries. He makes everything converge on Christ: all the rituals and sacrifices, figures and symbols of the “First Covenant”. He announces him through the mouths of the prophets who succeeded one another in Israel. Moreover, he awakens in the hearts of the pagans a dim expectation of this coming.
523 – St. John the Baptist is the Lord’s immediate precursor or forerunner, sent to prepare his way.196 “Prophet of the Most High”, John surpasses all the prophets, of whom he is the last.197 He inaugurates the Gospel, already from his mother’s womb welcomes the coming of Christ, and rejoices in being “the friend of the bridegroom”, whom he points out as “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world”.198 Going before Jesus “in the spirit and power of Elijah”, John bears witness to Christ in his preaching, by his Baptism of conversion, and through his martyrdom.
524 – When the Church celebrates the liturgy of Advent each year, she makes present this ancient expectancy of the Messiah, for by sharing in the long preparation for the Savior’s first coming, the faithful renew their ardent desire for his second coming. By celebrating the precursor’s birth and martyrdom, the Church unites herself to his desire: “He must increase, but I must decrease.”
525 – Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a poor family. Simple shepherds were the first witnesses to this event. In this poverty heaven’s glory was made manifest. The Church never tires of singing the glory of this night:
The Virgin today brings into the world the Eternal
And the earth offers a cave to the Inaccessible.
The angels and shepherds praise him
And the magi advance with the star,
For you are born for us,
Little Child, God eternal!
1095 – For this reason the Church, especially during Advent and Lent and above all at the Easter Vigil, re-reads and re-lives the great events of salvation history in the “today” of her liturgy. But this also demands that catechesis help the faithful to open themselves to this spiritual understanding of the economy of salvation as the Church’s liturgy reveals it and enables us to live it.
KWL
Unit Content 1 (Lent):
KWL Big Book, Stories About Jesus, Zacchaeus p4-11
KWL Book 2 Chapter 6 A Journey to New Life Part 1 p54 – 57
Unit Content 2 (Holy week):
KWL Big Book, A Journey to New Life Easter p18-23
KWL Book 2 Chapter 7 Jesus, the Light of the World p80-83
KWL Big Book, A Journey to New Life, Holy Week – Holy Thursday p10-11
KWL Big Book, A Journey to New Life, Holy Week – Good Friday p12-14
Unit Content 3 (Easter):
KWL Big Book, A Journey to New Life Easter p18-23
KWL Book 2 Chapter 7 Jesus, the Light of the World p80-83
KWL Book 2 Chapter 7 Jesus, the Light of the World p85
KWL Big Book, A Journey to New Life, Pentecost People p24-27
Unit Content 4 (Advent):
KWL Book 2 Chapter 18 Out of the Darkness p171-176
Unit Content 5 (Christmas):
KWL Book 2 Chapter 19 A New Light p178-184er
Prayer
Prayers of Tradition
Ash Wednesday “Repent and believe in the Gospel” or “Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel”
The Rosary “Sorrowful Mysteries”
Eucharist and Liturgical Rites
The Easter Vigil
