Lenten Alms Jar
This alms jar performs the two-fold purpose of demonstrating to children the importance of almsgiving and contributing money to the poor.
This alms jar performs the two-fold purpose of demonstrating to children the importance of almsgiving and contributing money to the poor.
The whole family can enter into the spirit of saving for alms. A glass jar is placed at the center of the
table on Ash Wednesday, and all the money each family member saves as a result of self-denial from smoking, eating candy, going to
movies or similar activities is put into it.
The children spend the first weeks of Lent investigating needy causes and charitable
organizations and missions. They will have the responsibility of determining who gets the alms-fund.
Prayer and Spiritual Reading
Good Works and Almsgiving
Mortifications (or Sacrifices) and Self Denial
Penance (this is the area or areas of special practice or mortification that is done throughout Lent).
Good Works and Almsgiving
Mortifications (or Sacrifices) and Self Denial
Penance (this is the area or areas of special practice or mortification that is done throughout Lent).
Family Chart
It helps for children (and adults) to be able to mark and visibly follow the progress during Lent. An easy way to keep track is to make a Star Chart. Each person needs four categories or lines, and then 40 squares for each penitential day in Lent (Sundays aren't included) for each category.
It helps for children (and adults) to be able to mark and visibly follow the progress during Lent. An easy way to keep track is to make a Star Chart. Each person needs four categories or lines, and then 40 squares for each penitential day in Lent (Sundays aren't included) for each category.
Create a chart, buy stickers or stars in four different colors.
At the end of the day, review the actions of the day, and place a star in each category that has been fulfilled that day.
You and your friends are invited to join the
Holy Heroes
Lenten Adventure.
It's fun and it's free!
Activities
start
Ash Wednesday,
Feb 17, 2010.
Diocèse Catholique
Catholic Diocese
Alexandria-Cornwall
Links for Lent
Click on the Pascal Lamb for information about and prayers for Lent.
To help your family live Lent we have gathered a number of resources, including websites, information about Lent, activities and
crafts to do with your children.
Diocèse catholique d'Alexandria-Cornwall Catholic Diocese
220, ch. Montreal Rd, C.P./Box 1388, Cornwall ON K6H 5V4 * 613-933-1138
Prayer Pots
Teach Lessons from Ash Wednesday through Lent. Lent, the season in which we prepare for the Easter celebration of Jesus' resurrection, allows for six weeks of teaching children about prayer, sacrifice and showing kindness to others.
Teach Lessons from Ash Wednesday through Lent. Lent, the season in which we prepare for the Easter celebration of Jesus' resurrection, allows for six weeks of teaching children about prayer, sacrifice and showing kindness to others.
NOW Cross
Our lives have become hectic with too many activities, too many work and family obligations, a constant barrage of noise and visual stimulation through the radio, TV, stereo, movies, computer, and games. We need to slow down and turn towards the spiritual world.
Our lives have become hectic with too many activities, too many work and family obligations, a constant barrage of noise and visual stimulation through the radio, TV, stereo, movies, computer, and games. We need to slow down and turn towards the spiritual world.
It doesn't matter what we did yesterday, or even a few minutes ago. The important time is NOW, and we need to make the best of NOW.
Not the past, not the future, but the present. Lent is not the time for procrastinating!
A useful idea is to make crosses out
of colored paper, maybe red or violet, and write the word "NOW" or even the whole verse of 2 Cor 6:2 on the cross: "Behold, now is
the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation!" These crosses can be placed as reminders around the house one on the TV,
the refrigerator, the radio different areas of the house that will help remind you of your personal Lenten resolutions.
Click on the icons to go to great Lenten websites.
Click on the photo for a Holy Heroes Promo as seen on YouTube.
Lent
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May this penitential season be for every Christian a time of authentic conversion and intense knowledge of the mystery of Christ,
who came to fulfill every justice.
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
Ivan Kramskoy's 1872 Christ in the Wilderness
CatholicMoms.com
This delightful book contains a wonderfully told story from the Bible for each day of Lent. Read this book with very young children;
older children will make it their own.
Forty Days and Forty Nights: A Lenten Ark Moving Toward Easter
Count down the days of Lent aboard an ark with Noah's family and all the animals. The colourful 30.5 cm by 30.5 cm ark has windows and doors to open for each day of Lent and for the Three Days of the Easter Triduum. The accompanying booklet connects the animals on the ark to lenten values and provides guidance for daily prayer.
Count down the days of Lent aboard an ark with Noah's family and all the animals. The colourful 30.5 cm by 30.5 cm ark has windows and doors to open for each day of Lent and for the Three Days of the Easter Triduum. The accompanying booklet connects the animals on the ark to lenten values and provides guidance for daily prayer.
This reusable sticker calendar counts the 50 days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost. The booklet also includes explanations of Eastertime
stories and of the images contained on the calendar.
To order these and other Lenten books and resources visit the
Click on the pictures to go to
the Catholic Conference of Canadian Bishops'
website.
Sola Deo Gloria
from EWTN.
Click on the photo above to view a power point presentation for a different approach to fasting
DomesticChurch.com
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