Even if youāre little you can do a lot, you Mustnāt let a little thing like ālittleā stop you – Matilda the Musical, ‘Naughty’, Tim Minchin Changing the world is a hard job. Best to start early, donāt you think? Here are a bunch of ways you can help your kids live a life […]
We’re now in Holy Week, where Lent morphs into Easter. In my house we’ll continue lighting our Lenten candles and saying the sentences about Jesus that go with them, but there are plenty of other special things coming along this week that can take their own place in household spirituality. So here’s a bunch of […]
This is an all-in-one post for Week 6 of our Lent with Kids plan. To fill in some background,Ā start here. You can also see theĀ series index here. Charles Dickens could have been writing about Palm Sunday: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of […]
This is an all-in-one post for Week 5 of our Lent with Kids plan. To fill in some background,Ā start here. You can also see theĀ series index here. Let’s start with a prayer: We give you all thanks and praise, O God, for yours is the power of life that even death cannot hold back. You […]
This is an all-in-one post for Week 4 of our Lent with Kids plan. To fill in some background,Ā start here. You can also see theĀ series index here. The collection of Lectionary texts for the fourth Sunday of Lent includes these three Gospel readings: John 9, where Jesus heals a man who has been blind his […]
This is an all-in-one post for Week 2 of our Lent with Kids plan. To fill in some background,Ā start here. You can also see theĀ series index here. Week 1 of Lent is almost done, and Sunday is a-comin’! I’m experimenting this week with just one post with everything we need for the week. Let me […]
Happy Week 1 of Lent! This is a progress-report type post on our first week of Lent with Kids.Ā Here is the quick guide to all the Lent posts, and here’s where to start if you’re interested in how we’re celebrating Lent with candles, readings, prayers and art. My spiritual director once pierced me with […]
The pancake party was great fun, and we now have a seven-candle candelabra set up on the dining table – I am so rocking Lent! Well, the first three days of it, anyway… Now comes the hard part, for someone like me. I love ideas, so planning and designing our Lenten practice has been delightful. […]
It’s Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. A warm welcome to Jekheli Kibami Singh, one of millions of people around the world who received the ‘imposition’ of ashes today. Jekheli is from the Sumi tribe of Nagaland, India. She is the mother of two boys (2 and 7), and she and her husband Ranjish […]
(Western) Lent in 2020 begins on Wednesday 26 February This is the first proper weekly post of our Lent with Kids series. If you’re reading this after the first week of Lent, or if you want to see the range of other Lent ideasĀ we’ve got, you can also headĀ here, to the series indexĀ to see what’s […]