A Preparation for Easter

Meaning and Significance of the Lenten Season

We Prepare for Easter

• I examine my conscience and probe for sins which need repentance. Then, I go to the Sacrament of Confession.

• I spend more time with Jesus praying– Walk with Jesus and Mama Mary: Meditate

on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary.– Walk with Jesus on his way to Calvary:

Pray the stations of the Cross every Friday.

We Prepare for Easter

• I exercise works of mercy towards my neighbor

• I offer little sacrifices in union with those of Jesus especially by means of…

1. Abstinence

2. Fasting

3. Almsgiving

Eating during Lent

Fasting

Definition

Abstinence

Age Range

Requirements

Days Observed

• Not Eating meat products

18 – 59 years old 14 – 59 years old

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday

Every Friday of Lent

Good Friday

What about them?

Eating Only 1 Full Meal A Day

2 small Meals

Persons Exempted from Fasting and Abstaining

• Those outside the age ranges given.

• Elderly who are too weary

• People with certain sickness

• People who do Heavy Manual Labor

Filipinos Say:

Ash Wednesday 40 Days

Palm Sunday

The Span of the Lenten Season

Kwaresma • meaning: Lent

• taken from the word “Kwarenta” or forty (40)

February 25, 2009

April 5, 2009

Time Lines

The Lenten Season and the Holy Week

Ash Wednesday Palm Sunday40 Days

Holy Week

Palm Sunday

• We Remember Jesus given a kingly welcome at the Gates of Jerusalem and people sang “Hosanna” waving Palm Branches.

Ash Wednesday Palm Sunday

Holy Wednesday

“Hosanna!”40 Days

Holy Week

Holy Wednesday

• Also Known as “Spy Day”• Judas agreed to deliver Jesus to his enemies in exchange

for money.

“Chat with the chief priestsA deal made to bring deathThirty-eight hundred bucks richer than beforePucker up and lay one on that CarpenterThey'll drag His beaten flesh awayand shame your face where it sitsRepentance stakes it's claimCoins returned and body hangedSuch is the result of betrayalPossessed by the devil himself.”

Ash Wednesday Palm Sunday

Holy Wednesday

Maundy/ Holy Thursday

Judas betrayed Jesus

“Hosanna!”40 Days

Holy Week

Maundy Thursday

• The Last Supper• Jesus washed the feet of his disciples.• Jesus left us an assurance of His Presence and

promised that He will never leave us whatever happens.

• He instituted the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist during the Last Supper.

• Visita Iglesia – In the Evening, families go from one church to another adoring and praying to Jesus in the blessed sacrament.

Ash Wednesday Palm Sunday

Holy Wednesday

Maundy/ Holy Thursday

Good Friday

Last Supper

Judas betrayed Jesus

“Hosanna!”40 Days

Holy Week

Good Friday

• The same people who shouted “HOSANNA” had him crucified.

• He was innocent.

• Jesus, God in the Flesh, suffered and died for the Sins of Humanity on the CROSS. (We venerate it.)

• He died so that we would have life.

• He was laid down in a tomb.

Ash Wednesday Palm Sunday

Holy Wednesday

Maundy/ Holy Thursday

Good Friday

Black Saturday

”Crucify Him!”

Last Supper

Judas betrayed Jesus

“Hosanna!”40 Days

Holy Week

Black Saturday

• Jesus fetched the souls (in Limbo) who awaited his coming.

• Like Jesus’ Disciples who anticipated His resurrection from the dead…

• …the people of God celebrate the Easter Vigil on the evening of Black Saturday.

The Paschal Triduum

• TRI-DUUM (3 days)

• The Last 3 Days of Holy Week

• The Holiest Days of the Liturgical Year.1. Maundy Thursday

2. Good Friday

3. Black Saturday

Ash Wednesday Palm Sunday

Holy Wednesday

Maundy/ Holy Thursday

Good Friday

Black Saturday

Easter Sunday Resurrection

Jesus fetched souls in Limbo

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

”Crucify Him!”

Last Supper

Judas betrayed Jesus

“Hosanna!”40 Days

Holy Week

Imagine We are Climbing up the Stairs

Palm Sunday

Holy Tuesday

Holy Wednesday

Holy Monday

As we go up, we draw closer to the much awaited DAY…

Palm Sunday

Holy Tuesday

Holy Wednesday

Maundy Thursday

Good Friday

Black Saturday

Holy Monday

Our Destiny.

Palm Sunday

Holy Tuesday

Holy Wednesday

Maundy Thursday

Good Friday

Black Saturday

Easter Sunday

Holy Monday

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Together with Christ

• We Suffer

• We Die

• We Rise Again to New Life...

…On Easter Sunday.

The End

Thank you for Your Attention

Make the most of this Lenten Season

God Bless and Happy Easter!!!