Unit Content 1:
Luke 4:16-22 Jesus’ Mission
Unit Content 2:
John 10:10-18 Jesus the Good Shepherd
Unit Content 3:
John 20:1-18 Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
John 20:1-10 The Empty Tomb
Acts 1:6-11 The Ascension of Jesus
Unit Content 4
Isaiah 11:1-2 The Peaceful Kingdom
1 Samuel 16:1-13 David Anointed as King
Isaiah 7:14-15 The Sign of Emmanuel
Isaiah 9:6 The Righteous Reign of the Coming King
Matthew 3:1-11 The Proclamation of John the Baptist
Luke 1: 26-38 The Birth of Jesus Foretold
Matthew 1:18-24 The Birth of Jesus the Messiah
Unit Content 5
Luke 1:26-38 The Birth of Jesus Foretold

Ordinary Time
Our Prayer Place

Unit Content 1
Our Lenten Prayer Place
Unit Content 2
Traditional Stations of the Cross
Unit Content 3
Our Easter Prayer Place.
John 20:1-18 Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
John 20:1-10 The Empty Tomb
Unit Content 4
Our Advent Prayer Place
The Jesse Tree

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Lent and Holy Week

542 – Christ stands at the heart of this gathering of men into the “family of God”. By his word, through signs that manifest the reign of God, and by sending out his disciples, Jesus calls all people to come together around him. But above all in the great Paschal mystery – his death on the cross and his Resurrection – he would accomplish the coming of his kingdom. “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.” Into this union with Christ all men are called.
1929 – Social justice can be obtained only in respecting the transcendent dignity of man. The person represents the ultimate end of society, which is ordered to him:

What is at stake is the dignity of the human person, whose defence and promotion have been entrusted to us by the Creator, and to whom the men and women at every moment of history are strictly and responsibly in debt.

1938 – There exist also sinful inequalities that affect millions of men and women. These are in open contradiction of the Gospel:

Their equal dignity as persons demands that we strive for fairer and more humane conditions. Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.

2437 – On the international level, inequality of resources and economic capability is such that it creates a real “gap” between nations. On the one side there are those nations possessing and developing the means of growth and, on the other, those accumulating debts.
2439 – Rich nations have a grave moral responsibility toward those which are unable to ensure the means of their development by themselves or have been prevented from doing so by tragic historical events. It is a duty in solidarity and charity; it is also an obligation in justice if the prosperity of the rich nations has come from resources that have not been paid for fairly.
2459 – Man is himself the author, centre, and goal of all economic and social life. The decisive point of the social question is that goods created by God for everyone should in fact reach everyone in accordance with justice and with the help of charity.

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.

666 – Jesus Christ, the head of the Church, precedes us into the Father’s glorious kingdom so that we, the members of his Body, may live in the hope of one day being with him for ever.

989 – We firmly believe, and hence we hope that, just as Christ is truly risen from the dead and lives for ever, so after death the righteous will live forever with the risen Christ, and he will raise them up on the last day. Our resurrection, like his own, will be the work of the Most Holy Trinity:

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit who dwells in you.

990 – The term ‘flesh’ refers to man in his state of weakness and mortality. The ‘resurrection of the flesh’ (the literal formulation of the Apostles’ Creed) means not only that the immortal soul will live on after death, but that even our ‘mortal body’ will come to life again.

962 – “We believe in the communion of all the faithful of Christ, those who are pilgrims on earth, the dead who are being purified, and the blessed in heaven, all together forming one Church; and we believe that in this communion, the merciful love of God and his saints is always [attentive] to our prayers” (Paul VI, CPG § 30).

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”

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.

Advent and 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’.

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”.

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.(200) By celebrating the precursor’s birth and martyrdom, the Church unites herself to his desire: “He must increase, but I must decrease.”(201)

525 – Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a poor family.202 Simple shepherds were the first witnesses to this event. In this poverty heaven’s glory was made manifest.203 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.

Unit Content 1
KWL Book 6 Chapter 17 Living the Gospel: A Catholic Missionary at Work p161-163

Unit Content 2
KWL Book 6 Chapter 5 The Stations of the Cross p49-52

Unit Content 3
KWL Book 5 Chapter 16 In Scripture – John 11:25-26 p160
KWL Book 5 Chapter 16 The Promise of Heaven p 157-160
KWL Book 6 Chapter 18 p 172-173,176

Prayers of Tradition
Stations of the Cross (Holy Week)
Eucharist and Liturgical Rites
Ash Wednesday Liturgy (Lent)
The Mystery of Faith (Holy Week)
Good Friday Liturgy: Prayer for Veneration of the Cross (Holy Week)
Memorial Acclamation 2 (Easter)
Preface of Christian Death I (Easter)
Praying with Scripture
Easter Prayer Service (Easter)
Other Prayer Forms
Prayer of Commitment (Lent)
Prayer of Contemplation (Holy Week)
Mission of Jesus and the Church (Lent)
Christian Meditation e.g. Maranatha (Easter)