Tag: Lent

The Chosen – for Lent

The Chosen – for Lent

Fr. Paddy

The Chosen, the first multi-season show about Jesus’s life, hopes to take you deeper into gospel stories by retelling and expounding on the character and intentions of Jesus and those who knew Him.

Monasterboice Parish is watching the First Season as a Lenten exercise – every Sunday evening during Lent at 6pm, in Drumshallon Forge. All Welcome.

As the biggest crowdfunded project in TV history, The Chosen is the first-ever multi-season show about the life of Jesus. This series allows viewers to see the life of Jesus through the eyes of those that knew Him. Follow the transformations of His followers through the ministry of Jesus as He journeys to change the world.

The Chosen is as well made and entertaining as many network dramas.

Rather than merely reciting Jesus’s greatest hits, Jenkins and his writers linger with characters in their daily lives—marital and professional conflicts, financial struggles, campfire gatherings. When the audience sees climactic moments from the Gospels, such as Jesus’s miraculous healing of a leper, the events register as disruptions of the status quo.

Although The Chosen stays faithful to the broad trajectory of the Christian Bible, it also creates some speculative backstories. Scripture mentions Jesus exorcising a demon from Mary Magdalene as almost a passing detail; The Chosen centers it in a tale that explains her subsequent devotion to Christ.
Jews who collected taxes for Rome were considered traitors, so the show’s writers depict Matthew the tax collector as on the autism spectrum, reasoning that a social outcast might gravitate toward a profitable but thankless job.
The account of Jesus turning water into wine at a wedding might be well known, but in the show, the miracle also saves the bride’s working-class parents from embarrassing the groom’s wealthy father.

The Chosen’s Jonathan Roumie plays Jesus as someone you’d actually like to hang out with, projecting divine gravity accented with easygoing warmth. He cracks jokes; he dances at parties. “What The Chosen has done well is give us kind of a robust portrait of a highly relatable Jesus that moves beyond some of the holier-than-thou, untouchable, unapproachable portraits of Jesus in the past,” says Terence Berry, the COO of the Wedgwood Circle, an investment group that finances faith-based media.

A Trailer for The Chosen

Download The Chosen App to watch the entire series for free!

Stations of the Cross

Stations of the Cross

Fr. Paddy

On Friday 19th February, members of the Parish Pastoral Council took part in a ‘Zoom’ Stations of the Cross.

This recording is now available for you to use, if you would like to follow the Stations for Lent.

Please click here for a link to the video

How to Pray the Stations

Before each station the person leading says:  We Adore You, O Christ, and We Bless You!
Everyone Replies: Because by Your Holy Cross You Have Redeemed the World.

Then each leader names the station, and offers a reflection on it.

Between the stations – The leader will share a story about a Crucifix which is of importance to them. Have you a crucifix thats important to you? Please send us a picture, and a short description of why the Crucifix is special.

After each station we all say together: I love you Jesus, my love above all things. I repent with my whole heart of having offended you. Grant that I may always love you, and then do with me what you will.

Pray the Stations at home using the prayers and meditating for a moment on each station.

Music – Were You There When They Crucified My Lord

Introduction – Andrew 

1 & 2 – Claire

  1.          Jesus is condemned to death:

II.        Jesus is made to carry his cross:

3 & 4 – Declan

III.       Jesus falls the first time:

IV.       Jesus meets his Blessed Mother:

Music – The Old Rugged Cross

5 & 6 – Emily

V.        Simon of Cyrene is made to help Jesus carry his cross:

VI.       Veronica wipes the face of Jesus:

7 & 8 – Philip

VII.     Jesus falls the second time:

VIII.    The women of Jerusalem weep for Jesus:

9 & 10 – Teresa

IX.       Jesus falls the third time:

X.        Jesus is stripped of his garments:

11 & 12 – Fr. Paddy

XI.       Jesus is nailed to the cross:

XII.     Jesus dies on the cross:

13 & 14 – Margaret

XIII.    Jesus is taken down from the cross:

XIV.    Jesus is laid in the Tomb:

Music – Amazing Grace

Conclusion – Andrew

Lent 2021

Lent 2021

Fr. Paddy

Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent are approaching. This will provide renewed opportunities for reflection and conversion – albeit under very challenging pastoral circumstances.

The Congregation for Divine Worship (The Vatican in Rome) has made it clear that it will not be possible to carry out the distribution ashes in the usual manner. With the “Stay at Home” message, and continuing public health restrictions on gathering for worship, we clearly cannot call people to gather in any way for the distribution of ashes.

For this reason the Archdiocese has been concentrating on developing resources to help people at home mark the beginning of Lent and enter into the spirit of this holy season. The following link on armaghprays will bring you to resources which families can use.

https://www.armaghprays.com/lent-2021

These resources will include a prayer service for Ash Wednesday at Home, with scripture reading, prayers of the faithful and an opportunity to make Lenten promises. The link also includes an invitation to symbolically mark – both personally and as a family – the importance of this moment.

This liturgy suggests that families may make a simple cross or ribbon which can be worn on Ash Wednesday instead of the usual mark on our foreheads. Some members of the Parish Pastoral Council have made some of these and they will be available in our Churches on Ash Wednesday, after the 9.30am Mass (online, via the Parish Facebook Page)

Lent is also an opportunity to provide some additional services e.g. online holy hours; Stations of the Cross; Lenten talks or reflections/thoughts for the day; lectio divina etc. These are ways in which we can keep the three Lenten themes of prayer, charity and fasting/self-denial alive in people’s hearts and minds. Please keep an eye on this website, or the Parish Facebook Page for up to date information.