Over the last several years, I have been hearing about a movement going on around Lent called 40 Bags in 40 Days (or something like that). The idea is that you go through and clean and purge and get ready for Easter and get rid of 40 bags of stuff. Without having looked up the […] Read more…
Lent 2013
Every year, I find Lent here and myself falling short. And it hasn’t even started yet. Even so, with the arrival of Lent is the increased call to prayer, fasting and alms-giving. Here are my tentative plans, though God usually has something else in mind that I don’t get until well into Lent :). […] Read more…
Holy Saturday
The next day, the one following the day of preparation,* the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 63c and said, “Sir, we remember that this impostor while still alive said, ‘After three days I will be raised up.’ 64Give orders, then, that the grave be secured until the third day, lest his disciples […] Read more…
Good Friday
From noon onward,u darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 46v And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”* which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 47* Some of the bystanders who heard it said, “This one is calling for […] Read more…
Holy Thursday – Agony in the Garden
Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane,* and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”r 37s He took along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee,* and began to feel sorrow and distress. 38t Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to […] Read more…
Palm Sunday
When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately on entering it, you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and […] Read more…
Ash Wednesday
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Lent 2012
First,for the girls (age 1 & 4). We will be using the following resources for Lent this year: Lent/Catholic Resurrection Eggs @ Catholic Icing Stations of the Cross on Fridays Bring Lent To Life by Kathleen M Basi (see my review @ Catholic Mothers Online) and Welcome Risen Jesus by Sarah Reinhard. Lenten […] Read more…
Bring Lent to Life {Book Review @ Catholic Mothers Online}
I had the opportunity to review Bring Lent to Life for Catholic Mothers Online. I’ve got a huge list of someday items for Lent. Why someday? Because they just don’t work in my current life. My children are young (4 and 1) and many activities are either over their heads or over their tolerance level. […] Read more…
Fat Tuesday: How to Make Authentic Polish Paczki {Catholic Mothers Online}
Have you ever wanted to know how to make REAL paczki? I grew up in a Polish family and every year, my grandmother made hordes of Paczki. One day, my husband told me of how his friends would get up super early on Fat Tuesday to go the bakery and get Paczki’s. He proudly presented […] Read more…