As Lent approaches, I have been trying to make a plan for nightly devotions with my children. My children love doing this during Advent, and so I've been looking for resources to continue this practice. As much as I love handmade, creative ideas, my life is not conducive to creating right now! It's either beautiful, handmade crafts or school work and a clean house!
Thankfully, I've been able to find some easy ways to incorporate nightly readings, and hands-on activities that will capture the interest of my children. Here are a few ideas:
Paidea Classics sells a wonderful Lenten calendar. It has numbered doors for each Sunday of the Triodion, and then each day during Great Lent. It also comes with a booklet that contains short readings for each day.
We will also be using our Advent wreath, just redecorated! There are 7 Sundays in Lent, so we have 7 purple candles, plus a white candle for Pascha.
The highlight of our nightly devotions during Advent was our Jesse Tree. Paidea also sells shrink plastic ornaments for Lent! There is a pack for the seven Sundays in Lent, and another that has an ornament for each day of Holy Week. We will be using our Jesse Tree, with a spring-time tree skirt.
I'm so happy that with just a few clicks we have something tangible for our family to embrace Great Lent at home!
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Thanks for these wonderful links! I still can't believe Lent is almost here!!
What a great post. Thanks for sharing all that information. I did finally purchase a book of Lenten meditations. I am working on putting together a bunch of activities to get my children participating in Lent. It is hard for them because they cannot fast in the way that adults can, and my children have very short attention spans, which makes anything difficult :) I hope this Lent will be a peaceful one for us.
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