Making a Symbolic Cross
As a Lenten project, provide twelve-to fourteen-inch wooden crosses from a craft story to each student. Have the students design their crosses in the following way (share directions with students): At the bottom of the vertical beam, engrave a passage from the Passion narrative in Mark 14—16. At the top of the vertical beam, draw an image or affix an image you have collected of Jesus, the Suffering Servant. On the horizontal beam, depict with an image or quotation that extends across the beam some of the sufferings of the contemporary world that Christ has redeemed.
