Lent

By using CRS Rice Bowl materials, families and educators can teach children about the season of Lent, Jesus’ sacrifice, and how they can help their sisters and brothers around the world while living out their faith.

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fast and abstinence. The other Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat.

Christians must persevere in generously doing good in the world, bolstered by prayer and by fighting evil in their own lives, including an addiction to digital media, Pope Francis said.

Don’t miss these local opportunities to enrich your Lenten experience.

“It’s the father of lies who tells humans they are not who they are: ‘Nobody wants you.’ ‘You are only a fetus, not a person.’ ‘You would be better off dead. It’s best for your family.'”

Master German painter Matthias Grunewald’s image is particularly poignant in these challenging pandemic days as we walk the via crucis.

“‘We are all in the same boat,’ Pope Francis reminded us. … We could perhaps point out that we are all in the same storm but not in the same boat. There are stronger boats and there are more fragile ones. We also see that sometimes those who are in the same boat try to throw others off it.”

Movies are a storytelling medium that can be tools to teach an understanding of obedience and moral character to children, teens and adults.