My son attends a Catholic school so he knows all our religion’s celebrations and traditions. I was raised in a Catholic family and during Lent we do a lot of religious activities at home like processions, daily prayers, participating in the Stations of the Cross, novenas, watching religious films in the church and attending mass and more. I wanted my kids to experience this to understand the meaning of Lent and why we celebrate Easter. So I decided to start a simple Lenten tradition in our home, to focus on Jesus, prayer, meditation and sacrifice.
To start with, I printed these beautiful cards from CatholicTradition.org of the 5 Sorrowful Mysteries which is basically the scope of Lent. I printed the descriptions and reflections of each mystery and glue it at the back of each card so Mavi and I can read and pray together after we finish discussing each story.
We will also use Mavi’s Bible which I bought last year (because he has outgrown his baby Bible books), for extra reading.
Here’s a close-up look of the cards. Again, the images are from here, and I added some text and borders so they’ll look even better when we put them on display at home.
What about you? How do you plan to observe Lent this year?
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