Learning Outcomes

At the end of the lesson, the

students can:
D: Present clearly the meaning and
significance of the Paschal Mystery
based from Sacred Scriptures and
Church Teachings through an
artwork
M: Express concrete ways of how
one can share in the Paschal
Mystery of Christ through a
reflective essay
W: Celebrate Christ’s Paschal
Mystery, on his great act of love, by
reflecting/singing prayerfully the
song “How Beautiful”
BTI
Introduction
Whoever wishes to come after me must deny
himself, take up his cross, and follow me” (Mark 8:34).
What do you think are the crosses most young
people like you carry? Are you ready to take up your
crosses and follow Jesus? If Jesus our Lord was
obedient to the Father by his willing acceptance of his
saving mission and died for us, we who are being saved
by his love and are called his disciples must be ready to
take up our crosses and follow Jesus Christ.
We have come to the climax of Jesus’ earthly life,
his Paschal Mystery which is the passion, death,
resurrection, and ascension. May we choose to be
faithful to our relationship with Christ and follow him
because after death there is a promise of everlasting life
with Him, a great reward that awaits a happy and faithful
servant.

Domain 1- Content, Knowledge and

Pedagogy

1.3.1 show skills in the positive use of

ICT to facilitate the teaching and
learning process.

1.5.1 apply teaching strategies that

develop critical and creative thinking
and other high-order thinking skills

Domain 5 – Assessment and

Reporting

Domain 5.3.1 demonstrate knowledge

of providing timely, accurate, and CapSoul of the Session
constructive feedback to improve "Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a
steadfast spirit within me." Psalm 51:10

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ACTIVITY
Reflective Sharing
1. Which of the events in your life made you feel most loved by God? Why?
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2. What quality of Jesus’ personality stood out most in that event?

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ACQUISITION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE

Biblical Grounding:Phil 2: 6-8
“Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to
be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness;
and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death
on a cross.”
PASCHAL MYSTERY - God’s love and salvation revealed to us through the life, passion, death,
and resurrection and glorification of his Son Jesus Christ.
PASCHAL – from Passover
Jewish - a journey or passage from slavery to freedom
Jesus – a life of self-donation to God and others with the Cross (final and ultimate act) and
the resurrection (crowning glory)
Mystery- refers to our faith.
We do not understand how God will save us, or even why God loves us so. We do not appreciate
the joy that awaits us in eternal life.
Jesus' entry into Jerusalem manifested the coming of the kingdom that the King-Messiah was going to
accomplish by the Passover of his Death and Resurrection. It is with the celebration of that entry on Palm
Sunday that the Church's liturgy solemnly opens Holy Week. CCC 560

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The Passion of Jesus (CCC 595-612)

The Passion refers to the sacrificial suffering and death of Jesus Christ by crucifixion on mount
Calvary. Jesus foretold these events and made it clear to his disciples that he would suffer freely
for the salvation of the world (Matthew 20:18-19).

After his Last Supper, Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane outside the walls of
Jerusalem. He was tried, found guilty and then handed over to Pontius Pilate who had him
crucified. After this, he was scourged, crowned with thorns and led to the hill of Calvary carrying
his cross. He died between two thieves. As he died he said, “It is accomplished” (John 19:30).

What is the atonement?

The word ‘atonement’ describes well Christ’s saving action. It implies both a repayment for our
sins (to atone) and a reunion of God and humanity (making at-one). The atonement is
accomplished through a sacrificial petition offered by Christ to God, the divine love of which utterly
revokes the offence of all sins and bears the pain and cost of sin in itself. Only a person who was
truly divine, human and innocent could make such an effective sacrifice on our behalf.

The atonement and ourselves

WHAT THE ATONEMENT DOES FOR US

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Repays our debt of guilt
“The Son of Man came … to serve and to give his life as a ransom” (Matthew 20:28).

Gains mercy for us and repeals our punishment

Upon him was the punishment that made us whole (Is 53:5); “This is my blood … which is poured
out for many for the forgiveness of sins” (Matthew 26:28).

Defeats the claims of the devil over us

“Now shall the ruler of this world be cast out” (John 12:31); deliver those… subject to lifelong
bondage… (Hebrews 2:15).

Reconciles us to God
In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself (2 Corinthians 5:19).

Fulfils Scripture and salvation history

As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth,
making peace by the blood of his cross (Colossians 1:20).

The atonement also teaches us the seriousness of sin by the bitterness of its remedy, and
manifests the extent of God’s love for us, “God shows his love for us in that while we were yet
sinners Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). By the atonement, Jesus has also given us the supreme
example of sacrificial love, “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for is
friends” (John 15:13).

Death of Jesus (CCC 613-618) Christ's death is both the Paschal sacrifice that accomplishes
the definitive redemption of men, through "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the
world",439 and the sacrifice of the New Covenant, which restores man to communion with God by
reconciling him to God through the "blood of the covenant, which was poured out for many for the
forgiveness of sins". CCC 613

The descent to the dead

The soul of Jesus descended to the dead in the period between his death and Resurrection.
Scripture refers to him “preaching to the spirits in prison” (1 P 3:18-20). In other words, he
released those just souls who had died before his coming and opened heaven to them.

The Resurrection of Jesus (CCC 638-655) "We bring you the good news that what God
promised to the fathers, this day he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus." The
Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith in Christ, a faith believed and lived as the
central truth by the first Christian community; handed on as fundamental by Tradition; established
by the documents of the New Testament; and preached as an essential part of the Paschal
mystery along with the cross:

Christ is risen from the dead!

Dying, he conquered death;
To the dead, he has given life.

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The Resurrection is the bodily rising of Jesus Christ from the dead after three days in the tomb.

St Peter states that Jesus rose physically: “[we] ate and drank with him after he rose from the
dead” (Ac 10:41), but his glorified body had extraordinary new abilities. He appeared at different
times and places, and his body, though glorified and transformed in appearance, still bore the
wounds of the crucifixion (Jn 20:28).

The physicality of the Resurrection of Jesus, witnessed by so many, rules out the claim that only
Jesus’ soul or ghost returned, or that only his message lived on, or that he merely revived, or that
it was all an elaborate hoax.

The importance of the Resurrection for us

By his Resurrection, Jesus confirmed the validity of all he taught and did, showed that human life
does not cease with death and manifested the reality of a glorified risen humanity.

The Ascension CCC 659-664 Ascension is Jesus’ physical departure from his disciples. This
event took place after forty days of appearances and teaching following his Resurrection.
Scripture records him ascending to heaven, which signifies the “definitive entrance of Jesus’
humanity into God’s heavenly domain” (CCC 665). Jesus is now in heaven, where he intercedes
and prepares a place for us, and from where he shall come again at the end of time.

The SEVEN LAST WORDS OF JESUS

1. “Father, forgive them; they know not what they do” (Lk 23: 34).
2. “Today you will be with me in Paradise” (Lk 23: 43).
3. “Woman, behold, your son…Behold your mother” (Jn 19; 26-27).
4. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Mt. 27: 46).
5. “I thirst” (Jn 19: 28).
6. “It is finished” (Jn 19: 30).
7. “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit” (Lk 23: 46).
A. Scriptures
The Doctrine of the Cross (Mark 8: 34-38)
Verse 34 – Jesus carried the cross of redemptive suffering for us.
Verses 35-36 – life does not end in the here and now. The life in Christ is the life that gives us our
true meaning and joy.
Verse 38 – Christ demands of his disciples absolute allegiance.
B. CHURCH TEACHINGS
Christ instituted the Eucharist at his last supper with his apostles, so that his bloody sacrifice on
the cross could be perpetuated through all ages… (CFC, 1689)

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The Lord instituted the sacrament of his love the night before he died. “Do this in memory of me”
(Lk 22: 19)
The passion and death of Jesus is the center of the Christian vision of life. It points to us what it
means to believe, live, love and forgive.
The Council of Trent emphasizes the unique character of Christ’s sacrifice as the source of eternal
salvation… (CFC, 617)
The cross is our only hope. For only he who loves unto death for others can give hope. Out of
love for us, Christ faced death that all may truly live. In the world of misery and death, of division
and sin, the Church is called to witness to the cross as the enduring and radical sign of God’s
love which embraces all.
The CROSS of CHRIST is ultimately not an instrument of death but a means of bringing new life
to others. When our daily self-giving and sacrifices are rooted in Christ, they are transformed into
powerful means of salvation and redemptive suffering for others.

“The cross of Christ is the sign of God’s all-embracing love…”

-Nostra Aetate, 4-

APPLICATION
From Suffering to Joy
1. Following the Paschal pattern, show your clear understanding of the meaning and
significance of the Paschal Mystery in your life through an artwork digital or manual (poster,
collage, drawing, etc).
2. Make a title of your artwork which will capture the viewers and readers attention.
3. Indicate your name and signature on your output for proprietorship.

Criteria:
Clarity of the message - 50%
Creativity/artistry - 50%

ASSESSMENT
Following Jesus’ Example
Answer the questions briefly and concretely.
1. How can you follow Jesus in laying down his life for others?

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2. How can you be a source of hope and joy in today’s context?

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Praying the Passion of Christ
End the session praying and/or singing “How Beautiful” which expresses the saving power of
Christ’s Paschal Mystery in our lives.

REFERENCES

Quimba, Roawie L. (2011). Jesus Christ. Davao City, Philippines: Blue Patriarch Publishing
House.
Verzosa-Frago, Ester, Dango, Josephine C. (2005). Called to Meet Christ in Scripture, Church,
and Sacraments. Quezon City, Philippines: Sibs Publishing House, Inc.
ECCCE Word & Life Publications, Manila (CCC) Catechism of the Catholic Church, (1994) ECCCE

ECCE Word & Life Publications, Manila (CFC) Catechism for Filipino Catholics, (1997)

Vatican II Documents. The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents. Austin Flannery, O.P. Costello
Publishing Company. Northport, New York

Holy Bible

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