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Lent and Easter

Spiritual resources for the season, including those to help celebrate Lent Fast Day, 6 March 2009

Nawal Mohummed, 26 yrs, making bread. She is a member of a women's group in Zariba, central Sudan, through which she is doing classes in literacy, bread making & farming [Annie Bungeroth]

Holding our lives before God (25.00 kB)

This Holy Thursday reflection and prayer calls us to examine our lives as if we were being held in Jesus' place.

Prayers: Easter (60.00 kB)

A collection of our Easter prayers for you to download

Women working in the community kitchen garden in the North East Centre for Popular Medicine (CNMP) which works to produce popular and community health initiatives in Brazil [Marcella Haddad]

A special Lenten fast (24.00 kB)

Lenten fasting prayer from Latin America

Landscape near Shinyanga, Tanzania [Sean Sprague]

Reflection: Words of wisdom (118.50 kB)

Reflections on livesimply for this Lenten period by Fr Jim O'Keefe

Phalla is a field worker for CAFOD partner Maryknoll in Cambodia and a foster parent to eight children [Annie Bungeroth]

Fast Day Prayer and prayer of intercession (25.50 kB)

Prayer for Fast Day and prayer of intercession

Woman riding a bicycle in rural Cambodia [CAFOD]

Homily notes (43.50 kB)

For Sunday March 1 (Mark 1:12-15), and Sunday, March 8 (Mark 9:2-10)

Ean Poise, 39yrs, and her daughter Uk Raksa, 7yrs, eat lunch. The family is supported by Banteay Srei [CAFOD]

Children’s Liturgy of the Word (173.07 kB)

Based on the gospel reading for Sunday, March 8 – the Transfiguration (Mark 9: 2-10). We are all God’s children. God loves all of us, and we can be transformed by God’s love if we respond to His call.

Mass talk, short (46.50 kB)

Telling the story of Phalla’s family in Cambodia, who feature in the Fast Day poster and leaflet

The Eighth Day - children's sketch (720.46 kB)

The earth is God’s gift to all of us, so living sustainably helps us to share responsibility for God’s creation. But we don’t always treat the Earth with the respect it deserves, as we can see with this sketch

Dancing at the harvest festival in Gracias, Lempira in Honduras [Marcella Haddad]

Mass celebrating CAFOD's work pdf (54.25 kB)

Mass text with prayers to end injustice, poverty and debt. Ideal for a community wishing to celebrate CAFOD's work in their region

Fighting for the rights of those abused during Peru's turbulent past [Never Again!]

Speak out for Peru's indigenous people

Email the Peruvian government today, asking it to protect the rights of indigenous people

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(Left to right) Richard Cockle, John Corney, Lizzie Cranfield, and Gavin Baxter celebrate together after finishing the Great North Run 2005 [CAFOD]

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