Many bloggers have written beautiful and encouraging posts and articles on the "keywords" of making a good Lenten preparation for Easter. Words such as "renew" and "prepare" apply to Advent as they do in Lent. After all, this "coming" of Christ as redeemer is also the anniversary of our redemption!
Taking these wise words to heart and home, we're hosting another giveaway, featuring your favorite, Lenten Traditions. Remember all of those great traditions we learned about in the Advent giveaway? Let's talk Lent!
Simply leave a comment to this post with a reflection you put into action during the Lenten season in preparation for Easter. Be they certain family sacrifices, traditions, prayers, works, etc. - we want to hear all about them! In honor of the coming feast of Easter and in thanks for participation from our guests, friends, and commentators, we'll be giving away TWO of the Catholic Embroidery Easter specials to TWO lucky winners:
Pysanky Basket Liner/Cover, embroidered with our traditional Ukrainian Budded Cross design
Congratulations to PATTY, who shared, "In our little family we go out of our way to pray a family Rosary every night. We usually pair it with a novena, which keeps us motivated to make sure to pray every single night. By the time Lent is over, it is a good habit we have formed and we do our best to carry it on the rest of the year."
Congratulations to PATTY, who shared, "In our little family we go out of our way to pray a family Rosary every night. We usually pair it with a novena, which keeps us motivated to make sure to pray every single night. By the time Lent is over, it is a good habit we have formed and we do our best to carry it on the rest of the year."
Lamb of God Apron, embroidered with the Triumphant Lamb of God design on washable white fabric (lol)
Congratulations to Jennifer Gregory Miller, who shared, "A few of our Lenten traditions: We pray a decade of the rosary every night, except Stations of the Cross on Fridays. We have a grapevine wreath with craft picks for thorns. These are removed every time extra prayers, good deeds or sacrifices are performed.
Congratulations to Jennifer Gregory Miller, who shared, "A few of our Lenten traditions: We pray a decade of the rosary every night, except Stations of the Cross on Fridays. We have a grapevine wreath with craft picks for thorns. These are removed every time extra prayers, good deeds or sacrifices are performed.
Ladies, please send us your mailing address by March 25th. Thank you all for participating!
**With two winners in the forecast, a second chance at winning is at hand. Simply "Like" us on Facebook and leave a comment here, telling us about it in order to qualify for a second chance at winning these lovely additions to the Easter table.
To ensure that the winners will be able to put these items to good use, the giveaway will end on Laetare Sunday at 11:59PM . International visitors are welcome.
Can't wait to hear about your favorite Lenten traditions!
P.S. Don't forget your St. Patrick Breastplate Pillowcases for St. Patrick's Day!
We have a bean jar for the children. When they make a small sacrifice or do something nice for someone else they earn a bean. The goal is to fill the jar with beans before Easter because on Easter Sunday the beans get replaced with candy filled to the same level that the beans were. To help the children learn to perform the spiritual and corporal works of mercy, we also have a big brown paper cross on the door that the children cover with flowers. Each flower is labeled with the work of mercy performed.
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ReplyDeleteIn our little family we go out of our way to pray a family Rosary every night. We usually pair it with a novena, which keeps us motivated to make sure to pray every single night. By the time Lent is over, it is a good habit we have formed and we do our best to carry it on the rest of the year.
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ReplyDeleteA few of our Lenten traditions: We pray a decade of the rosary every night, except Stations of the Cross on Fridays. We have a grapevine wreath with craft picks for thorns. These are removed every time extra prayers, good deeds or sacrifices are performed.
ReplyDeleteWe have a sacrifice jar but use pennies instead of beans. On Easter morning after the pennies have turned into jelly beans, the children divide the pennies and put them in the collection at Mass. We also have a daily reading and symbol for the Jesus tree. The children also like to do the Lent Adventure with Holy Heroes. We also attend Stations of the Cross on Fridays and this year we are trying to pray the rosary everyday. Thank you for the giveaway, I love all of your products, they are beautiful. If I had facebook, I would "like" you. My email is adriennezannino@gmail.com.
ReplyDeleteOur family attends Stations of the Cross on Fridays, and we make family sacrifices as well as personal ones. I just love all of your products, and really hope I can win this apron. It's a beauty!
ReplyDeleteWe say the Saint Ephrahim prayer every night during Lent!!! It is a beautiful tradition in the Eastern Churches. And also during Lent we do prostrations during Liturgy!!!
ReplyDeleteWe attend stations on Fridays, have a salt dough crown of thorns that the children remove thorns for sacrifices, and we make a Lent calendar on a big poster that the kids put purple crosses on to count down to Easter. My favorite thing would be that after the children make enough sacrifices to remove all of the thorns from the crown, we then paint the crown gold and decorate it with jewels on Holy Saturday for our Easter centerpiece. Our King having risen, this is my children's favorite too.
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Mindy Mcdonald
Mindy! We did the crown of thorns, but I never thought to paint it after for Easter :)
DeleteI too am loving the idea of painting the crown of thorns. What a great motivation for the littles to do enough to get all those toothpicks out :)
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We've done different things during different years but the one devotion my kids keep asking for year after year is the Divine Mercy Chaplet during our nighttime prayers.
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ReplyDeleteIn addition to our personal things, we do one sacrifice as a family -- the easiest thing we can keep in check is giving up all sweets. On Ash Weds., we cover up nearly all religious pictures/statues in purple fabric. I'd rather wait for Palm Sunday to do this, but when your teens are the ones who instigate this type of activity, you go with the flow. The littles do the Holy Heroes Lenten Adventure and we do the Jesus Tree.
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