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Week TWO: March 8-14
Quick Bio: St.Thérèse was born in 1873 and “from the age of three, …began to refuse nothing of what God asked of [her]”. Her mother passed away when St. Therese was only four years old. St.Thérèse entered the convent at the age of fifteen (requesting permission from the Pope). Four of her sisters also became nuns. St.Thérèse died at the age of twenty four.
Week TWO: March 1-7
Quick Bio: St. Josephine was branded by slave owners with 114 scars on her body. She forgave the slave traders who kidnapped her and those who tortured her saying: “I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and religious today. The Lord has loved me so much. We must love everyone.”
Quick Bio: St. Gemma lost her mother when she was eight years old. She looked after her own siblings and eventually became a nanny for two other families.
St. Gemma’s brother died when she was 16 years old and her father died just three years later, when she was 19 years old.
We’re trying something NEW this year for LENT!
Inspired by the Magnify book (see Amazon affiliate links below) and program Magnify90
we’re going to be studying the lives and virtues of 7 awesome female saints over the next 7 weeks!
This is our summary post of Lenten crafts and activities to bless your family Lenten journey.
First of all, check out our FREE craft tutorials for these classics!
Good Deed Bead Bracelets: A great way to get kids engaged in LENT prayer and sacrifice and good deeds!
When I discover great prayer tools, I love to share them! I am still really enjoying Jesus Speaking: Heart to Heart with the King * and Every Sacred Sunday as well as Magnify*, the book I recently reviewed here
While I enjoy creating Catholic Printables, I’m always excited to see what others are creating to foster prayer and devotion and faith formation in the home. This year’s Catholic Mom Bundle for Lent is an awesome collection of Catholic Resources and I’m going to feature just over half of them in this post. There are even more resources available in the Bundle, but I’m focusing on the ones that grabbed my attention, particularly as printables for Lent. I’ve grouped them into Activity Packs, Journals/Programs and Prayer.
I know, it’s crazy to think that Lent begins in just over TWO WEEKS! Some of us just took down our Nativity last weekend on the Feast of the Presentation!
Do you ever get a little overwhelmed when you consider what you’re going to do for Lent at your house? I’ve got some good news for you.
The Mentors of Mercy Craft Kit includes templates featuring illustrated examples of Mercy, exemplified by Jesus and the Saints.
17 pages of templates can be colored and assembled to create 3 Booklets, Carousel or Accordion Centerpieces based on the Corporal Works of Mercy, Spiritual Works of Mercy and Mysteries of Mercy from Jesus’ Public Ministry.
This is our monthly summary of crafts and family traditions related to the Monthly Devotion, Key Feast Days and the appropriate Season of the Liturgical Calendar. As our kids get older, our activities and commitment to Catholic crafts has changed and adjusted (at least for our tween, teen and young adult kids)! While we haven’t exactly been adding a lot of Catholic crafts around here, we do enjoy pulling out the crafts and programs we’ve developed over the years, sometimes sharing them with younger families in our parish!
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