For Lent: Stations of the Cross Workout
We are excited to launch a new challenge this Lent: The Virtue=Strength Stations of the Cross Workout.
Every Lent the Church encourages us to pray the Stations of the Cross.
As a team or as an athlete, you are going to work out. Why not combine the two?
We would like to introduce a way to integrate working out and praying the Stations.
14 exercises - 14 Stations of the Cross
Purpose: Help us grow closer to Christ by experiencing the fatigue, sweat, effort that our Lord suffered for us in his Passion and Death.
Hopefully this workout made prayer will enable us to relate to Jesus in an environment, the gym, that we are familiar with. The exercises can be modified to whatever your needs are. This can be done alone, in a small group or a large team.
How?
1. Introduce with short talk about the workout and Lent
2. Invite a different athlete to read the Station and Reflection before each exercise
3. Do exercise and repeat 14 times.
4. Conclude with a talk about what Christ suffered for us because He loves us.
We have two different versions for you to choose from this year:
The "Arms in Cross" version is to help us focus even more intentionally on the suffering our Lord went through during the crucifixion. This version could be especially effective the closer we draw to Holy Week.
You can modify the exercises and reps according to your circumstances.
We've included videos, photos, testimonials, slides and all the resources necessary to get you started.
If you'd like more information or need some help, please send me an email LJudd@VirtueStrength.org
For the exercises you can choose really whatever you'd like.
Some schools are doing 40 reps of each exercise to symbolize the 40 days Jesus was in the desert.
Some schools are integrating this into their PE classes.
Some runners are doing 14 laps on the track and they are reflecting on a station before each lap.
Some are simply following the script we've included.
