Flickr, Sean MacEntee “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 Family Activity: Collect stones of various sizes and weights. As a family member feels that they have committed a sin, they can choose a stone and place it in a predetermined box. As an …
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3rd Sunday of Lent
Flickr, Serenity by Lucid Dreams Recall the wondrous deeds the Lord has wrought. Psalm 105:5 Family activity: Create a basket of blessing eggs. Each person in the family needs to decorate their own egg. You can use plastic eggs that open up or make paper mache eggs, leaving a small opening that will allow for …
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2nd Sunday of Lent
If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted, then light shall rise for you in the darkness and the gloom shall become for you like midday. Isaiah 58:10 Family Activity: Make Pretzels In earlier times, Roman Christians (of about the 4th century) observed a much stricter fast during Lent than we …
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First Sunday of Lent
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.” Psalm 51:10 A family activity: Just as at Advent time, we’d light candles on the Advent wreath, in my family, we used a Lenten wreath as well. To make the wreath itself, we would use a grapevine wreath …
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Fourth Sunday of Advent
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_FZKwbrKD0&feature=related] Readings: Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights. (James 1:17) Give to others and God will give to you. Indeed, you will receive a full measure, a generous helping, poured into your hands – all that you can hold. The …
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Third Sunday of Advent
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKyMoxTLqOw] Reading: May you always be joyful in your union with the Lord. I say it again, Rejoice! Show a gentle attitude toward everyone. The Lord is coming soon. Don’t worry about anything but in all your prayers ask God for what you need, always asking him with a thankful heart. And God’s peace, which …
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