Compulsory Scripture
Unit Content 1:
Mark 10:46-52 The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus
Unit Content 2:
Luke 22:14-23 Institution of the Lord’s Supper
John 13: 1-9, 12-15 Washing of the Feet
Luke 23:33, 44-46 The Death of Jesus
Unit Content 3:
Luke 24:1-12 Jesus is Risen
Luke 24:13-35 The Walk to Emmaus
Together at Mass
Unit Content 4
Isaiah 9:6 Prince of Peace
Unit Content 5
Luke 2: 8-20 The Shepherds and the Angels
Storytelling
Ordinary Time
Our Prayer Place
Unit Content 1
Our Lenten Prayer Place
Mark 10:46-52 The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus
Unit Content 2
Holy Week
Unit Content 3
Our Easter Prayer Place
Luke 24:1-12 Jesus is Risen
Luke 24:13-35 The Walk to Emmaus
Together at Mass
Unit Content 4
Our Advent Prayer Place and the Liturgical Year.
Luke 1:26-45 The Annunciation
Luke 1:26-45 The Visitation
Unit Content 5
Luke 2:1-20 The Birth of Jesus
Church Documents
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Lent and Holy Week
459 – The Word became flesh to be our model of holiness: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me.” “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.” On the mountain of the Transfiguration, the Father commands: “Listen to him!” Jesus is the model for the Beatitudes and the norm of the new law: “Love one another as I have loved you.” This love implies an effective offering of oneself, after his example.
610 – Jesus gave the supreme expression of his free offering of himself at the meal shared with the twelve apostles “on the night he was betrayed.” On the eve of his Passion, while still free, Jesus transformed this Last Supper with the apostles into the memorial of his voluntary offering to the Father for the salvation of men: “This is my body which is given for you.” “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
1438 – The seasons and days of penance in the course of the liturgical year (Lent, and each Friday in memory of the death of the Lord) are intense moments of the Church’s penitential practice. These times are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, and pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and fraternal sharing (charitable and missionary works).
1698 – The first and last point of reference of this catechesis will always be Jesus Christ himself, who is “the way, and the truth, and the life.” It is by looking to him in faith that Christ’s faithful can hope that he himself fulfils his promises in them, and that, by loving him with the same love with which he has loved them, they may perform works in keeping with their dignity:
I ask you to consider that our Lord Jesus Christ is your true head, and that you are one of his members. He belongs to you as the head belongs to its members; all that is his is yours: his spirit, his heart, his body and soul, and all his faculties. You must make use of all these as of your own, to serve, praise, love, and glorify God. You belong to him, as members belong to their head. And so he longs for you to use all that is in you, as if it were his own, for the service and glory of the Father. For to me, to live is Christ.
Easter
645 – By means of touch and the sharing of a meal, the risen Jesus establishes direct contact with his disciples. He invites them in this way to recognise that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his passion. Yet at the same time this authentic, real body possesses the new properties of a glorious body: not limited by space and time but able to be present how and when he wills; for Christ’s humanity can no longer be confined to earth, and belongs henceforth only to the Father’s divine realm. For this reason too the risen Jesus enjoys the sovereign freedom of appearing as he wishes: in the guise of a gardener or in other forms familiar to his disciples, precisely to awaken their faith.
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.”
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.
1067 – ‘dying he destroyed our death, rising he restored our life”
1358 – We must therefore consider the Eucharist as:
– thanksgiving and praise to the Father;
– the sacrificial memorial of Christ and his Body;
– the presence of Christ by the power of his word and of his Spirit.
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.
1169 – Therefore Easter is not simply one feast among others, but the “Feast of feasts,” the “Solemnity of solemnities,” just as the Eucharist is the “Sacrament of sacraments” (the Great Sacrament). St. Athanasius calls Easter “the Great Sunday” and the Eastern Churches call Holy Week “the Great Week.” The mystery of the Resurrection, in which Christ crushed death, permeates with its powerful energy our old time, until all is subjected to him.
Advent and Christmas
430 – Jesus means in Hebrew: ‘God saves.’ At the annunciation, the angel Gabriel gave him the name Jesus as his proper name, which expresses both his identity and his mission [Cf. Lk 1:31 .] Since God alone can forgive sins, it is God who, in Jesus his eternal Son made man, ‘will save his people from their sins’ [ Mt 1:21 ; cf. Mt 2:7 ] in Jesus, God recapitulates all of his history of salvation on behalf of men.
484 – The Annunciation to Mary inaugurates ‘the fullness of time’, [ Gal 4:4 ] the time of the fulfilment of God’s promises and preparations. Mary was invited to conceive him in whom the ‘whole fullness of deity’ would dwell ‘bodily’ [ Col 2:9 ]. The divine response to her question, ‘How can this be, since I know not man?’, was given by the power of the Spirit: ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you’ [ Lk 1:34-35 (Greek)
489 – Throughout the Old Covenant the mission of many holy women prepared for that of Mary. At the very beginning there was Eve; despite her disobedience, she receives the promise of a posterity that will be victorious over the evil one, as well as the promise that she will be the mother of all the living.[ Cf Gen 3:15, 20 ]. By virtue of this promise, Sarah conceives a son in spite of her old age. [ Cf Gen 18:10-14 ; Gen 21:1-2 ]. Against all human expectation God chooses those who were considered powerless and weak to show forth his faithfulness to his promises: Hannah, the mother of Samuel; Deborah; Ruth; Judith and Esther; and many other women [ Cf 1 Cor 1:17 ; 1 Sam 1 ]. Mary ‘stands out among the poor and humble of the Lord, who confidently hope for and receive salvation from him. After a long period of waiting the times are fulfilled in her, the exalted Daughter of Sion, and the new plan of salvation is established’
1171 – In the liturgical year the various aspects of the one Paschal mystery unfold. This is also the case with the cycle of feasts surrounding the mystery of the incarnation (Annunciation, Christmas, Epiphany). They commemorate the beginning of our salvation and communicate to us the first fruits of the Paschal mystery.
KWL
Unit Content 1
KWL Year 3 Chapter 5 Lent, Holy Week and Easter p36-37
Unit Content 3
KWL Book 3 Chapter 11 Jesus is Present When We Celebrate the Eucharist p84-85
Unit Content 4
KWL Book 3 Chapter 18 Advent and Christmas p140-141
Prayer
Prayers of Tradition
The Angelus (Advent)
Hail Mary (Advent)
The Magnificat (Advent)
Praying with Scripture
The Annunciation (Advent)
The Visitation (Advent)
The Birth of Jesus (Advent)
Other Prayer Forms
Prayer of the Faithful (Holy Week)
Guided Meditation (Holy Week, Easter)
Prayers of Praise (Advent)
