A collection of resources for parishes to use during Lent.
Fifteen minute session for parents and children intended to be incorporated into your regular catechetical program as you prepare families for Lent and Ash Wednesday • By Jim Merhaut
Fasting is when we give something up in a spirit of love. This fifteen minute session helps parents and children reflect fasting as a Lenten spiritual practice. • By Jim Merhaut,Jane Angha
This gathering for parents and children explores prayer as one of the spiritual practices of Lent. • By Jim Merhaut
Help children live their faith during Lent by focusing on the Gospel readings for Lent. • By mariette martineau
This program leads parishioners through deeper reflection and understanding of the Lenten season.
This program helps participants engage in the three practices of Lent: praying, fasting, and almsgiving.
Using a "Family Feud" format, help families explore the three practices of Lent: praying, fasting, and almsgiving.
In this program, participants will work together to create their own Stations of the Cross.
This activity was originally designed to help those families who are preparing a child for the sacrament of reconciliation for the first time. It has been modified, to review the concept of forgiveness and celebrate reconciliation outside the sacrament. It makes an excellent preparation for Lent. • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto
This activity is similar to Advent wreaths. The entire activity will take less than an hour. It can be done in conjunction with a related prayer service, if you have more time. • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto
This reflection on the Way of the Cross was designed to help families recognize how Jesus is suffering in the world today. Although preschoolers can easily be incorporated into the activity, it is not particularly appropriate for those families who only have small children. School age children will gain far more from the experience. • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto
This program begins with a festive Mardi Gras celebration of favorite foods and games and then shifts from feasting to fasting with a reflection and prayer service that prepares participants for a meaningful experience of Lent.
Use this prayer service to reflect on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving during Lent.
This all-ages session has been adapted from "Pray Always" specifically for Lent.
In this all-ages session, participants will explore the "who" of Jesus through the central symbols of the season of Lent - Year C.
Explore the people, traditions, and scripture passages of Lent in a Jeopardy-style format.
The purpose of this experience is to enable all of us to realize that Jesus not only suffered and died in Jerusalem almost 2000 years ago, but that he continues to suffer and die in all the people suffering in our world today. It also hopes to familiarize participants with the ancient Catholic devotion of "Stations of the Cross." • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto
This lesson is meant to give an appreciation of the historic event of the Exodus and some insight into the present Jewish celebration, while calling us to take an active role in the liberation of all people. It is best if used in conjunction with "The Responding Community: Slavery & the Exodus." It requires the use of "The Passover Celebration" by Leon Klenicki. • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto
This lesson offers participants an experience of the injustice that governs world economics and will help them to prepare to celebrate Lent meaningfully. • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto
Parent drop-in sessions with home activities on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving to use during Lent.
This Faith Festival is designed to prepare households to enter into the celebration of Ash Wednesday. • By Mariette Martineau
This Faith Festival is designed to help households be ready for the season of Lent and focuses on the practices of almsgiving, prayer and fasting. • By Mariette Martineau
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