Lenten Cross

The first or second Saturday of Lent, I spent the afternoon making our Lenten cross. I got idea from the book, Lent and Easter in the Domestic Church. The Lenten cross is very similar to the Jesse Tree we do for Advent. Each day there is a different reading either from the Old Testament prophesying the death of Christ or a reading from the New Testament about the fulfillment of Christ’s way to the cross.

I didn’t put a picture of it up earlier because it was just anticlimactic with only six squares filled in. I make them all of felt and put them on a stiff white felt background with all the readings written in pen for each square. I velcro-ed the white pieces of the cross together and then each purple square has velcro on the back. The most fun square to do was the cock pictured below. I was inspired by the Rose’s beautiful hens that we had seen earlier that day.