2. 40 days and 40 nights
Lent is a time to prepare for Easter – it represents the 40 days and nights when Jesus was tempted in the desert.
During this time he didn’t eat or drink anything and the Lenten tradition of abstinence is continued today by many who choose to give up something specific such as chocolate or alcohol.

3. 40 days and 40 nights
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.
Luke 4:1-2a (NRSV)

4. 40 days and 40 nights Jesus, tempted in the desert,
lonely, hungry, filled with dread:
‘Use your power’, the tempter tells him;
‘turn these barren rocks to bread!’
‘Not alone by bread’, he answers,
‘can the human heart be filled.
Only by the Word that calls us
is our deepest hunger stilled!’
Herman G Stuempfle ( )
© 1993, GIA Publications, Inc. Used with permission

5. Shrove Tuesday s
Lent always starts on a Wednesday, so people went to confession on the day before.
The old middle English word ‘Shriven’
meaning to go to confession gave
the day its name of Shriven Tuesday
which became Shrove Tuesday.
This was the last chance to indulge
yourself and to use up the foods
that were not allowed during
Lent so pancakes became a tradition – using sugar, fat and eggs.

6. Ash Wednesday
The first day of Lent is called Ash Wednesday - the name comes from the tradition of putting a small cross
of ash on people’s forehead at church
services.

7. Ride on, ride on in majesty
Holy Week commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus before his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection
on Easter Sunday.
It begins with Palm Sunday which celebrates Jesus’ triumphal arrival in Jerusalem for the Jewish festival of Passover.

8. Ride on, ride on in majesty
Hark, all the tribes Hosanna!’ cry;
your humble beast pursues its road
with palms and scattered garments strowed
Henry Hart Millman ( )

9. Welcome him into your life
Then they brought the colt
to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; and he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.
Mark 11:7-8 (NRSV)

10. Welcome him into your life
So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord - the King of Israel!’
John 12:13 (NRSV)

11. Welcome him into your life
Make way, make way, for Christ the King
In splendour arrives.
Fling wide the gates and welcome Him
Into your lives.
Graham Kendrick
Copyright © 1986 Thankyou Music
Used by permission

12. The Last Supper
Thursday of Holy Week is known as Maundy Thursday. On that day, Jesus had his last meal with his friends and followers – this meal is known as ‘The Last Supper’.
Jesus and his friends would have followed the Jewish Passover custom of eating roast lamb and bread and drinking red wine.

13. The Last Supper
Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, ‘This cup that is
poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
Luke 22:19-20 (NRSV)

14. Bread is blessed and broken, wine is blessed and poured:
take this and remember
Christ the Lord.
John L Bell and Graham Maule
©Wild Goose Resource Group

15. There in the garden of tears
Then Jesus
went with them to a place called
Gethsemane;
and he said to
his disciples,
‘Sit here while
I go over there
and pray.’
Matthew 26:36 (NRSV)

16. There in the garden of tears
My heavy load He chose to bear;
His heart with sorrow was torn,
‘Yet not My will but Yours,’ He said.
Graham Kendrick
© 1983 Thankyou Music Used by permission

17. Suddenly a crowd came...
While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd came... Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest’s house Luke 22:47a,54a (NRSV)

18. Suddenly a crowd came...
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus...they
stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and
after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head... Then they led him away to crucify him.
Matthew 27:27a,28-29a,31b (NRSV)

19. It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him
It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him. And with him they crucified two bandits, one on his right and one on his left Matthew 15: 25,27 (NRSV)

20. My Lord, my Love is crucified
O look on him, as you pass by;
the wounded Prince of life and peace!
Come, sinners, see your Maker die,
and say, was ever grief like his?
Come, feel with me his blood applied;
my Lord, my Love is crucified.
Charles Wesley ( )

21. linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb that had been
Joseph of Arimathea...
asked for the body of
Jesus. Then Joseph
bought a linen cloth,
and taking down the
body, wrapped it in the
linen cloth, and laid it in
a tomb that had been
hewn out of the rock. He then rolled a stone
against the door of the
tomb.
Mark 15:43,46 (NRSV)

22. They did not find the body

23. They did not find the body
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had
prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body Luke 24:1-3 (NRSV)

24. They did not find the body
Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,
kept the folded grave clothes where thy body lay.
Thine be the glory, risen conquering Son:
Endless is the victory, thou o’er death hast won.
Edmund L Budry ( )

25. They did not find the body
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and
behold, He is here.
St Augustine ( )

26. Alleluia! Christ is risen
...On the third day he rose again, he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father...
The Apostles’ Creed

27. Alleluia! Christ is risen
What shall I give you, Lord, in return for all Your kindness?
Glory to You for Your love.
Glory to You for Your mercy.
Glory to You for Your patience.
Glory to You for forgiving us all our sins.
Glory to You for coming to save our souls.
Glory to You for Your incarnation in the virgin’s womb.
Glory to You for Your bonds.
Glory to You for receiving the cut of the lash.
Glory to You for accepting mockery.

28. Alleluia! Christ is risen
Glory to You for Your crucifixion.
Glory to You for Your burial.
Glory to You for Your resurrection.
Glory to You who were preached to men and women.
Glory to You in whom they believed.
Glory to You who were taken up into heaven.
Glory to You who sit in great glory at the Father’s
right hand.
Glory to You whose will it is that the sinner should be saved through Your great mercy and compassion.
Ephraem of Syria (ca )

29. The great gift of Easter is hope
“The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.”
Basil C. Hume ( )