You may freely use, remix and share the graphics below as presentation backgrounds for your celebration of Way of the Cross (Via Crucis). To view and download their full-size versions (1024×768), please click on the images below.
Lent is a forty-day liturgical season dedicated in a special way to fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. Fasting is a symbolic expression of our self-offering to God and of our detachment from all the transitory material things in this world (like food) in order to become open for spiritual values and to see clearly what really counts in life. In a word, fasting means to thirst and hunger for God. Prayer means reflecting on these questions – How’s my relationship with God? With others? How will I grow close to God during these forty days? Is there something I can’t give up which is hurting my relationship with God, with my family and friends? Are my values and priorities in proper order? Almsgiving means getting personally involved with the poor and compassionately helping them alleviate their plight.
As we begin this holy season let us ask the Lord to renew us and give us new hearts filled with love and compassion that we may embrace his will more fully in our lives and that we may respond with compassion to those in need.
You may freely use, remix and share the graphics above as presentation backgrounds for your celebration of the Season of Lent. To view and download their full-size versions (1024×768), please click on the images above.
Today is Ash Wednesday and today is the start of the forty-day Season of Lent. As I have said in my previous post, Lent is about radical conversion – leaving behind our old ways of being and doing in order to become like Christ. Here are forty practical suggestions on how to make a radical conversion this Season – by doing a loving act each day of Lent.
1. Forgive someone who has hurt you deeply.
2. Say thanks to a tricycle/jeepney/bus driver.
3. Read the Bible.
4. Write a love letter to your spouse.
5. Plant trees.
6. Make someone smile.
7. Help your parents do the household chores.
8. Play your favorite game with your siblings.
9. Help an old person cross the street.
10. Cook for your parents.
11. Pray the rosary with your family.
12. Sincerely pay attention to your parents.
13. Make someone laugh.
14. Support a human rights advocacy.
15. Help someone without being asked.
16. Plant vegetables.
17. Give your extra shirt to a beggar.
18. Offer your seat to a lady or an old person.
19. Hug your children.
20. Learn to recycle everything.
21. Visit a sick friend.
22. Attend Mass with your family.
23. Do the Stations of the Cross with your family.
24. Be patient with your teachers.
25. Be the reason for someone in despair to find hope.
26. Send biblical text messages.
27. Say grace before eating.
28. Give thanks after eating.
29. Visit a friend you haven’t seen for years.
30. Pray for your enemies.
31. Hug your father.
32. Spread peace wherever you go.
33. Volunteer to teach out-of-school children.
34. Give alms to street children.
35. Be patient with slow learners.
36. Give clean water to homeless families.
37. Help someone build a house.
38. Visit an orphanage.
39. Give books to poor children.
40. Spend some time alone in prayer.
Here is a high-resolution wallpaper I created in time for the Holy Week. It is available in various sizes to fit all commonly used desktop and tablet resolutions. You are free to use it as a worship background, presentation background, liturgy visual or for other purposes. Continue reading
While searching for images I could use this Holy Week, I discovered this beautiful photo set on Flickr. The set includes all the traditional 14 stations and the Resurrection (often included as the Fifteenth Station). Each image also comes with the usual Via Crucis prayer. Continue reading
The following are homilies, images, clipart, videos, and multimedia slides you might find useful for your celebration of the Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion (Year A).
Palm Sunday is the sixth and last Sunday of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week. It is considered a Sunday of the highest rank that not even a commemoration of any kind is being permitted in the Mass. In common law it fixes the commencement of Easter duty. Continue reading
The following are homilies, images, clipart, videos, and multimedia slides you might find useful for your celebration of the Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year A).
In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead to show that He is indeed the resurrection and the life – that whoever believes in Him, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in Him will never die. Continue reading
Here is a collection of 10 stunning images that you can use as worship backgrounds, liturgy visuals, and desktop wallpapers this Holy Week. Not only are they well-designed, they are also inspiring. And in my case, they also led me to contemplate on the sacrifice Jesus did in order to let the world experience the Father’s great love.
Holy Week is the last week of of the 40-day season of Lent. Since Holy Week directly precedes Easter, the week’s liturgy focuses primarily on Christ’s passion and death. It is that time of the year when Catholic churches all over the world commemorate and re-enact the life, ministry, crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus. The conclusion to Holy Week is called the Easter Triduum.
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The following are homilies, images, clipart, video, toon and multimedia slides you might find useful for your celebration of the Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion (Year C). Palm Sunday is the sixth and last Sunday of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week. It is considered a Sunday of the highest rank that not even a commemoration of any kind is being permitted in the Mass. In common law it fixes the commencement of Easter duty. For more detailed info about Palm Sunday please click here.
FIRST READING: Is 50:4-7
PSALM: Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24
SECOND READING: Phil 2:6-11
GOSPEL: Lk 22:14-23:56
The following video can be downloaded here.
The Palm Sunday movement can also be the Church’s movement. There is the instinctive urge for temporary triumphs and for seeking manifestations of God’s presence in the form of the blessings of health and wealth. But the deeper Christian calling is to service and this is often learned in the school of suffering. It is in going through this suffering, this paschal mystery, that lasting triumph is achieved. Read more…
The following presentation can be downloaded here.
By ReverendFun
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The following are homilies, images, clipart, video, toon and multimedia slides you might find useful for your celebration of the Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year C). In this Sunday’s Gospel, the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle of the temple area. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger and then said to them, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
FIRST READING: Is 43:16-21
PSALM: Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6
SECOND READING: Phil 3:8-14
GOSPEL: Jn 8:1-11
The video can be downloaded here. If you don’t know how to download videos from YouTube then follow this link to watch a tutorial.
The following presentation can be downloaded here.
By ReverendFun
To view and download their full size versions, please click on the images or the names of the artists/sources.
