Site Reviews: Lenten Resources	style="display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-0071582534774467" data-ad-slot="9411068359">

Below are reviews of some of the good Lenten sites available for personal growth and/or for background in preparing lessons on Lenten themes. Click on one of the items in the menu below to be taken to that section. There are so many sites with good Lenten resources that it was impossible to review all of them here. Consult our Lent, and Holy Week links page for a list of other web sites. General Web sites - Prayer & Meditation - Lenten Clipart - Crafts & Activities - Coloring Pages Stations of the Cross - Lesson Plans - Lenten Resources: Catholic Faith Education Blog General Web sites Lent and Holy Week: Overview and On-Line Resources - practical ideas for Lenten devotions, prayers and spiritual exercises for Holy Week, readings by Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio explaining the significance of the number forty days, lots of great readings from the Church Fathers. Many of the resources are available as PDF files that can be downloaded for free and duplicated for family or parish use. Lesson Plans Bread or Stone - Penitential Preparation Stations of the Cross Project Prayer & Meditation Lenten Meditations Written by M. Jean Frisk, The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute - These are beautifully illustrated and the text is wonderful to read - There are five mediations in all: Week 1 - Week 2 - Week 3 - Week 4 - Week 5 At the Foot of the Cross - by Gilles Côté Coloring Pages Coloring pages on a Lenten Theme - Several links to large coloring pages Jesus in the Garden Boy at the Cross Mary Finds That Jesus has Risen Scripture Clipart - 5 graphics can be used as coloring pages. Lenten Clipart & Images See also our lenten clipart pages: Lent - Palm Sunday - Holy Thursday - Good Friday Links to Images - Holy Week ------------------------------Select One----------------------------- Burial of Christ Crucifixion Denial and Betrayal of Jesus by the Disciples Descent into Hell Entry into Jerusalem Gethsemane Lamentation/Deposition/Pieta Last Supper Temple Incident Trial/Road to Calvary Scripture Clipart - with scriptural verses. Crafts & Activities A Christian Passover Seder Meal - "Haggadah means "Book of Remembrance' and it is the book, or liturgy that tells the Jewish people how to celebrate the Passover Seder (meal.) Christ, mysteriously incarnate as both the Son of God and a faithful Jewish man choose the Passover Seder to institute the new 'meal' of salvation and redemption. Christians can celebrate this seder to share a common ancestry with our Jewish brothers and sisters, and in memory of the meal that Jesus celebrated with his apostles. This 'Messianic Passover' meal should be celebrated on Holy Thursday. " - from the source This Lutheran web sites offers beautifully illustrated resources for children: The Events of Holy Week Making a Paschal Candle - Here are the instructions for making the Paschal candle. Palm Crosses - Step by step to making palm crosses with illustrations. Make a Basket of Blessing Eggs - by Monica McConkey Our Sins on the Cross - by Monica McConkey Exploring Lent - by Mary Ellen Vice Stations of the Cross Click here for more stations of the cross online.