I want to talk about Lent

  • Thread starter Thread starter cheeto1
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
C

cheeto1

Guest
I’d like to know if anyone has any family ideas that would take
five to ten minutes a day. Something that could be practiced
every day but only for a short time and be done together. I’m
looking for a new idea.
 
I like praying the stations of The Cross
40.png
cheeto1:
I’d like to know if anyone has any family ideas that would take
five to ten minutes a day. Something that could be practiced
every day but only for a short time and be done together. I’m
looking for a new idea.
Click to expand...
 
I’m taking this from* A Treasure Chest of Traditions* by Monica McConkey. Make a dough wreath with toothpicks stuck in it. It will look like a crown of thorns. When someone does an act of reparation, break off a toothpick.

Here’s another from the same book: To do reparation for sins committed in the Garden of Gethsemane, Collect thirty pieces of silver (Quarters, nickels, dimes) to make up for Judas. Give to the poor/collection box. Pray for an hour to make up for the sleep of the disciples (not necessarily a sin, I know) and place a banner in a prominent window professing “I believe in Jesus.” three times to make up for Peter’s denial.

Others I’d do: stations of the Cross. How about designing/coloring a depiction as you pray? The Gospel of the day–read and discuss. Also, you could make several sets of resurrection eggs to be given away. As you make them, you could discuss and pray about each egg. Resurrection eggs have 12-18 Plastic Easter eggs–each one containing a symbol of the Passion. One is empty to protray the empty tomb.
 
How about sacrifice beads like St. Therese used? I can tell you how to make them if you don’t know how.
 
You could say one decade of the rosary together as a family each evening.
 
40.png
DVina:
How about sacrifice beads like St. Therese used? I can tell you how to make them if you don’t know how.
Click to expand...
I like this idea. And they are simple to make. You can also use them as chaplets/decades. I used to love making rosaries, and I would pray it as I made it. I just used the little medals I’d get from various monasteries and shrines in the mail. I used them for the chaplets too.

I don’t know what your family is like, but our boys are into making things with wood and the girls like crosstitch and embroidery. Someone in my area makes little wooden cross necklaces with scripture sayings burnt into the wood and they donate them to the bookstore at a local friary which are then sold for a donation. You could do the same with embroidery swatches or crosstitch and either donate just the swatches or frame them with cheap frames from your local hobby shop.
 
could the kids prepare a very simple meal one night a week (maybe the night you usually go out or order pizza) and put the amount saved in a poor box as alms? Soup & sandwiches or pancakes.
 
Make a calendar and put something different each day that is age appropriate for each child.
 
Here’s a great sub-site of Catholic Culture. org called Lenten Workshop. All these links are derived from the first link, below, the homepage.

Here’s the homepage:
catholicculture.org/lit/overviews/seasons/lent/

A link to Lenten activities and traditions geared for families:
catholicculture.org/lit/overviews/seasons/lent/lent_activities.cfm

Stations of the Cross:
catholicculture.org/lit/overviews/seasons/lent/stations.cfm

Lenten prayers and hymns:
catholicculture.org/lit/overviews/seasons/lent/lent_prayers.cfm

A personal program of penitential activities:
catholicculture.org/lit/overviews/seasons/lent/lent_program.cfm

And general information about Lent:
catholicculture.org/lit/overviews/seasons/lent/lent_about.cfm

And an interesting link from a totally different website featuring something called “Station Churches.” Click on the “next” button for each station:
mostholyname.org/stationchurches/index.htm

God Bless!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top