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Lent and Easter

Spiritual resources for the season, including those to help celebrate Lent Fast Day, 26 February 2010


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Walk with us: Stations of the Cross
This contemporary Stations of the Cross takes us on a prayerful journey of transformation in solidarity with people living in poverty in the global South. As we walk through the Stations, we also walk with those who are living in poverty around the world through a mixture of their stories, Scripture and prayer.
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Dawn at La Garrucha in Mexico, an autonomous Zapatista district that was suffering intimidation by military [Julie Bubbers]

Walk with us: Stations of the Cross (4.60 MB)

A PowerPoint of the images included in the Walk with us: Stations of the Cross booklet. See the accompanying leader's notes for ideas of how to use these images

Dawn at La Garrucha in Mexico, an autonomous Zapatista district that was suffering intimidation by military [Julie Bubbers]

Walk with us leader's notes (235.50 kB)

Leader's notes to accompany Walk with us: Stations of the Cross booklet, which is available from CAFOD Resources, price £2.50. See details of how to order the booklet above

Finding work in Sao Paulo is not easy, especially without a fixed address. Even with a job, many families live on the streets as sky-high rents mean they can’t afford food for their children

Reflection: The grace of forty days (134.50 kB)

A reflection on what we could make time for this Lent

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

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

A Mayan procession mourning the victims of military repression in neighbouring Guatemala

Mexican Way of the Cross (62.96 kB)

Written for use with young people, during the Lenten season

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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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Published on 13/06/2008, last updated on 09/08/2010
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