Friday's Challenge: Stations of the Cross

If you are new to Stations of the Cross, they are a Christian devotion that commemorates the Passion of Jesus on Good Friday. It is custom to pray the Stations of the Cross every Friday (since Friday was the day of Jesus's death) during Lent.  Most Catholic churches have some type of representation of the 12 stations hanging on the walls.  The traditional form of the devotion, the priest leads the people from one station to the next with prayers and responses, pslams, and chants.  Each station represents a different moment in the Passion of Jesus. 

There are many different forms of the devotion, some of them correspond to a certain social issue, a certain group and some are just general prayers. 

Today's challenge is to do the stations for Operation Rice Bowl.  Operation Rice Bowl is a Lenten program sposored by Catholic Relief Services.  Their goal is to educate people on the lives and social issues of third world countries and the people that live there.  They also raise money to help those countries. 

Here is a link to a special Stations specifically written for Operation Rice Bowl.  http://orb.crs.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ORB-2011-Stations-of-the-Cross-English1.pdf

If you don't have access to a place to do the Stations here is a link to a power point presentation of the Stations for ORB: http://orb.crs.org/resources/interactive-resources/

Here is the link to Catholic Relief Services.  Check out their website and all the good work that they do. http://orb.crs.org/