1. Times of Significance

2. What events do you celebrate in your life?
Quick Fire
Write down three different events in which you celebrate or times that are significant?
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3. Times and Actions of Significance
Birthdays
School Events- winning a Munster Cup?
Family Events- Weddings? Births?

4. Times of Significance
The year is divided up into days, weeks and months.
Some are marked by times of significance

5. How are times of significance celebrated?
Through actions
For example when your finished school or college at the end of the year a graduation ceremony occurs.
E.g Actions of Significance
This allows us to grow in our understanding of significant times in our lives.

6. Communities of Faith Can you list 5 different communities of faith?
Do each of these have different times of significance?

7. Quick Fire
What are the times of religious significance and how do you celebrate them?
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8. Christian Times of Significance
What is the Liturgical Year?
Christians division of the Church Year.

9. Advent
Christmas
Ordinary Time
Lent
Easter

10. Can you name some of these events?
Begins with Advent, then Four Sundays before Christmas.
What does Advent Celebrate?
It celebrates the coming or arrival and is the name of the Church season or time when people prepare for Christmas

11. What is Advent
The Christian season of Christmas actually begins on Christmas Eve and lasts for twelve days, ending on January 6.
In Advent, we’re reminded of how much we ourselves also need a Savior, and we look forward to our Savior’s second coming even as we prepare to celebrate his first coming at Christmas.

12. What do the Colours mean?
Can anyone explain what colours are used in the Church and why?

13. Colours
Purple (or dark blue) as it signifies the seriousness, repentance and royalty
Pink points to the minor theme of Advent, which is joy.
The first, second, and fourth Sundays of Advent are “purple/blue” Sundays.
Only the third is a “pink” Sunday.
The pink, joyful color reminds us that, yearning for God to come to us, we know that he did in fact come in the person of Jesus.

14. Central, white, Christ-candle for Christmas Eve/Day

15. We light the first candle as a sign of waiting.
We light the second candle to show we are getting ready for Jesus new life in us.
We light the third pink candle as a sign of our joy in getting ready for Jesus’ birthday.
Now we are ready to light the fourth candle to show we are nearly there.
The white candle in the centre will be lit on Christmas Day.

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17. Jewish Times of Significance
Does anyone know how long the Jewish Year lasts?
354 days long
Jewish Religious times are based on the Bible and are linked to the time of year or Jewish history.

18. Do the dates of Jewish Festival differ year to year?
Yes they do.
Why?
Because like Muslims Jews go by the Lunar Calendar

19. Can you name some Jewish Festivals?
In Spring there's the
Passover or the Pesach
In Autumn there's-
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Sukkoth
Simchat Torah

20. In Summer there’s-
Shavuot
Tishah b’Av

21. In Winter
There’s – Hanukah
Purim

22. The Passover or Pesach
It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. 
Passover commences on the 15th of the Hebrew month of Nisan and lasts for either seven days (in Israel) or eight days (in the diaspora).

23. A brief overview of Passover.
The book of Exodus tells us how Moses was sent by God to Pharaoh to be a deliverer of Israel.
The Pharaoh, of course, did not heed Moses' appeal to set the people of Israel free from their slavery, and the stage was then set for the showdown between the God of Israel and the gods of Egypt

24. What is the meaning of Peseach
The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by God from slavery in Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses.

25. Seder Meal

27. Think Pair Share Write down a sentence for the following key words:
Moses Egypt
Pharaoh Plague
Burning bush Red Sea
Ten Commandments God

28. Conclusion
Write down three definitions in regards to what you have learnt today?