I’m participating in the Keeping LOVE in LENT Blog Link-Up 2014, hosted by the Catholic Bloggers Network.
We’ll be sharing different ways, tips, stories and real-life experiences that will help us focus on Lenten sacrifices, prayer and good deeds and how to carry them out with LOVE instead of a GRUMBLE.
Please scroll to the five hostesses’ contact information at the bottom of my post so that you can click over to one of them and join in if you’d like!
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Our Lenten Plans
Each year, I make these lofty Lenten plans. And each year, I mostly fall short. This year, I decided to only add a small habit and to know where I would add it to our day.
Fat Tuesday – Paczki (1/4 recipe)
Ash Wednesday – Ashes at mass
Daily With Kids (during our morning prayer time)
– Welcome Risen Jesus
– Countdown calendar
– Say a station with the kids
Myself (afternoons after exercise, as part of cleaning)
– spring cleaning & purging
Holy Week
Holy Thursday
– 30 pieces of silver – Judas betrayed – take to church on Easter Sunday
– pray for an hour (garden of Gethsemane)
Good Friday
– silence from 12-3
Holy Saturday
– easy resurrection rolls (take with us to dad’s)
Lent Post Round Up
Fat Tuesday — How to Make Authentic Polish Paczki {@CatholicMothersOnline}
40 Bags for 40 Days {Lent 2013}
Bring Lent To Life {Book Review}
Lent & Easter in the Domestic Church {Book Review}
The Essential Lenten Handbook {Book Review}
Visit any of these hostesses to find more about keeping Love in Lent —
- Monica at Equipping Catholic Families
- Chris at Campfires and Cleats
- Tina at Truly Rich Mom
- Tracy at A Slice of Smith Life
- Lisa at Home to 4 Kiddos
What is your family doing for Lent?
This post is linked to the Keep LOVE in Lent Blog Blitz with the Catholic Bloggers Network.
Valerie
16 March 2014 at 1:06 AM (10 years ago)Your ‘only adding a small habit…’ Idea is wise. Sometimes adding too many ‘activities’ defeats the purpose of Lent. 🙂
Thank you for linking the paczki recipe!
Have a blessed Lenten season.
Valerie´s last blog post ..~ Mystical Rose & Gardens ~
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Joe S.
12 March 2014 at 11:29 AM (10 years ago)Thank you for posting. It’s great to see what others are doing for lent. – Joe
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