If anything, it's more colorful than our last year's calendar.
The calendar was printed at Costco Photo in 16x20 for the family down stairs and 8x10 for Rose's bedroom.
It’s a pleasant reminder of our family goals for lent*:
Grow in CHARITY
Increase prayer life
Learn more about the lives of the saints
Reclaim our family Adoration time
Clean physical house by simplifying and purging
Clean spiritual house by almsgiving, works of mercy, and spirutal readings
*these are in addition to our personal Lenten programs
These are the Lenten Activities we have listed on the calendar:
Lent for Children: A Thought a Day (daily)
Update the bean jar for sacrifices/almsgiving (daily)
Review personal Lenten program chart (daily)
Pick Cleaning item out of jar & perform assigned task from the Lenten Cleaning Calendar (Mon.-Sat.)
Adoration (Thursday)
Stations of the Cross (Friday)
Select family almsgiving activity for the week (Sun.)
in addition to the children's collection for Life Center and simplifying our home by donating new and old items to the homeless shelters.
- visit the elderly/sick in the rest home
- pray at the abortion clinic
- provide service to the pregnancy resource center
- cook meal for Father
- cook meal or invite family to home for meal
- invite someone to Mass
- provide additional service to Parish
Each weekday has been assigned a permanent prayer intention.
Mon - End to Abortion
Tue - Conversion of Family
Wed - Godparents & Godchildren
Thur - Pope Benedict XVI & Priests
Fri - Souls in Purgatory
Sat - Vocations
Sun - Poor, homeless, and those in great need
We will also be using these resources:
kids
adults
Here's where I found my inspiration:
3 comments:
Your calendar turned out amazing! What a great idea to do it on the computer so it can be easily updated each year! What sort of program did you use?
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
Thanks for the compliment. I owe it to you.
I have used various sophisticated programs in the past but I always come back to Publisher. It's very basic but user friendly. It can be purchased as a stand alone or package.
I'm sure you have better options with Apple. I love working on an Apple. Maybe, one of these days...
Pax - Lena
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