What really jumpstarted this whole Church Year blog was our Advent activities this year. We did something to get ready for Christmas (almost) every day of Advent. Maybe I can do something similar with the kids during Lent: doing something every day to get ready for our celebration of Easter.
The problem is, of course, that our celebration of Easter is usually so much smaller than our celebration of Christmas. I'm not sure that it's right that it's so; is the Incarnation more important than the Ressurection?
Okay, so that's a question that's not getting answered in this post! Still, I wonder how hard it would be to come up with forty things - small things! - to do to get ready for Easter.
Maybe I should host a blog carnival, gathering ideas. :D
peace of Christ to you,
Jessica
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I tend to think of Lent as more of a time of almsgiving. So maybe a '40' day idea would be to have the family/children put some money into a Lent jar every evening and then at the end of Lent use the money towards almsgiving (give it to a charity, use it to buy lunches to give to some homeless, give it to family you know in need, etc.)
Of course, this won't make too much sense to the kids till they're older, but meanwhile, it is a good exercise for mom and dad. In the Orthodox church, one of the main points of fasting during this period is to simplify life and save money to use towards almsgiving. So, say, if you guys give up chocolate, put the amount that a chocolate bar costs each day into the jar, etc., etc.
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