A collection of resources to use at home during Lent.
Incorporate family members' favorite meals into the weeks leading up to Ash Wednesday, and then bake a King's Cake for Fat Tuesday!
Conversion is all about change. Lent is an opportunity for conversion. Reflect with your family on your experiences of Lent and see if you can identify moments of conversion.
This activity will help parents communicate the value of faithfulness and trust with younger children.
Use this activity to identify actions each family member can take to enter into the sacrificial spirit of Lent.
Lent is an opportunity for conversion. Reflect with your family on your experiences of Lent and conversion.
Learn about several March Saints through the virtues of humility, sacrifice, & faith
Books, movies, and seasonal highlights to enrich your family's observance of Lent.
Reflect on the themes of fasting and feasting and commit to some family Lenten resolutions.
Use a spring bulb garden or butterfly garden to experience the growth and transformation that Lent calls us to.
Home activity to follow the fifteen minute parent drop in session for Lent and Ash Wednesday. • By Jim Merhaut
Explore Lent & Holy Week themes through baking. Recipes include pretzels, hot cross buns, Easter bread, and refrigerator roll dough.
Ideas meant to jump-start your own brainstorming for social activities for families. They are tentatively placed according to season, but many would work at different times of the year, particularly in different climates. These are an aid to your ingenuity, not a replacement for it. • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto
This activity allows families to reflect on forgiveness within the family using their own experiences alongside the Gospel.
A collection of ideas for children to use during Lent regarding fasting, praying & almsgiving.
A collection of ideas for adults to use during Lent regarding fasting, praying and almsgiving.
If you are a young adult who has been looking for a way to prepare spiritually for Easter, this book is for you. These reflections have been written by people in their twenties and thirties. These young adults have taken the readings for the Lenten season and used them as a springboard for their own prayerful thought and reflection. Now they invite you to do the same.
This resource offers ideas for families to pray together, have faith-filled conversations, and reach out in service during the Lenten season.
This home activity provides prayers for parents and children to pray throughout the day. • By Jim Merhaut
Use this activity at home following the family mini-session on fasting. • By Jim Merhaut
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