Unit Content 1:
Matthew 6:1-18 Concerning Almsgiving, Concerning Prayer and Concerning Fasting

Unit Content 2:
Luke 23:34-43 The Crucifixion of Jesus

Unit Content 3:
Matthew 28:16-20 Jesus Commissions the disciples

Unit Content 4
Isaiah 9: 2; 6-7

Unit Content 5
Luke 2:1-7 The Birth of Jesus

Ordinary Time
Our Prayer Place

Unit Content 1
Our Lenten Prayer Place
The Church’s Year

Unit Content 2
The Scriptural Stations of the Cross.

Unit Content 3
Our Easter Prayer Place
Matthew 28:1-10 Jesus is Risen

Unit Content 4
Our Advent Prayer Place
Isaiah 9: 2; 6-7; Isaiah 7: 14 Isaiah the Prophet

Unit Content 5
Matthew 2: 1-12 The Visit of the Wise Men

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Lent and Holy Week

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.

1434 – The interior penance of the Christian can be expressed in many and various ways. Scripture and the Fathers insist above all on three forms, fasting, prayer, and almsgiving, which express conversion in relation to oneself, to God, and to others. Alongside the radical purification brought about by Baptism or martyrdom they cite as means of obtaining forgiveness of sins: effort at reconciliation with one’s neighbour, tears of repentance, concern for the salvation of one’s neighbour, the intercession of the saints, and the practice of charity “which covers a multitude of sins.”

1435 – Conversion is accomplished in daily life by gestures of reconciliation, concern for the poor, the exercise and defence of justice and right, by the admission of faults to one’s brethren, fraternal correction, revision of life, examination of conscience, spiritual direction, acceptance of suffering, endurance of persecution for the sake of righteousness. Taking up one’s cross each day and following Jesus is the surest way of penance.

1731– Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility. By free will one shapes one’s own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude.

Easter

656 – Faith in the Resurrection has as its object an event, which is historically attested to by the disciples, who really encountered the Risen One.  At the same time, this event is mysteriously transcendent insofar as it is the entry of Christ’s humanity into the glory of God.

777 – The word “Church” means “convocation”.  It designates the assembly of those whom God’s Word “convokes”, ie gathers together to form the People of God, and who themselves, nourished with the Body of Christ, become the Body of Christ.

1154 – The liturgy of the Word is an integral part of sacramental celebrations.  To nourish the faith of believers, the signs which accompany the Word of God should be emphasized: the book of the Word (a lectionary or a book of the Gospels), its veneration (procession, incense, candles), the place of its proclamation (lectern or ambo), its audible and intelligible reading, the minister’s homily which extends its proclamation, and the responses of the assembly (acclamations, meditation psalms, litanies, and profession of faith).

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

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.¹⁸ Since God alone can forgive sins, it is God who, in Jesus his eternal Son made man, “will save his people from their sins”.¹⁹ in Jesus, God recapitulates all of his history of salvation on behalf of men.

437 – To the shepherds, the angel announced the birth of Jesus as the Messiah promised to Israel: “To you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”³² From the beginning he was “the one whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world”, conceived as “holy” in Mary’s virginal womb.³³ God called Joseph to “take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit”, so that Jesus, “who is called Christ”, should be born of Joseph’s spouse into the messianic lineage of David.

458 – The Word became flesh so that thus we might know God’s love: “In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him”. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life”.

460 – The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”: “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God”. “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God”. “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods”.

464 – The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human.  He became truly man while remaining truly God.  Jesus Christ is true God and true man. During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of faith against the heresies that falsified it.

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.

673 – Since the Ascension Christ’s coming in glory has been imminent, even though “it is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority”. This eschatological coming could be accomplished at any moment, even if both it and the final trial that will precede it are ‘delayed’.

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.

Christmas

59 – In order to gather together scattered humanity God calls Abram from his country, his kindred and his father’s house, and makes him Abraham, that is, “the father of a multitude of nations”. “In you all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.”

464 – The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human.  He became truly man while remaining truly God.  Jesus Christ is true God and true man. During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of faith against the heresies that falsified it.

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.

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.

Unit Content 1
KWL Book 4 Chapter 5 In Lent p37

Unit Content 2
KWL Book 4 Chapter 5 Seasons and Celebrations: Coming Closer to God through Lent and Easter p32-33

Unit Content 3
KWL Book 4 Chapter 8 God’s Spirit Alive in the Church p60-61
KWL Book 4 Chapter 6 Our Parish Community p42-43

Unit Content 4
KWL Book 4 Chapter 18 Did you know? p144
KWL Book 4 Chapter 18 In Tradition p147-148

Unit Content 5
KWL Book 4 Chapter 18 In Scripture p141-143

Eucharist and Liturgical Rites
O Antiphons for (Advent)
Ritual use of Advent symbols (Advent)

Praying with Scripture
Scriptural Stations of the Cross (Holy Week)

Other Prayer Forms
Prayers of Thanksgiving (Lent & Holy Week)
Examination of Conscience (Lent)