This week marked the beginning of Lent. We’re quite familiar with the routine, 40 days of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. On Ash Wednesday, our foreheads were signed with the cross, that powdery residue from burnt palms. Lent is one of my favorite liturgical seasons; it’s that time of […]
The whole parish community plays an integral role when preparing our children for their first experience of coming to the Table of the Lord. It begins when we gather each Sunday to worship and praise our God. St. Paul eloquently expresses this reality in his letters to the early Christian communities of Rome […]
Sunday’s class ignited our religious imagination as we gathered in the cafeteria with the 5th graders, several teens, and adults of the parish community. The “assembly” numbered close to 60; and our call, to help our youngest children create their Body of Christ mobile. In the beginning was a little […]
…the last installment of the mini-series -helping your child participate at Mass. The Mass has ended, and your little one, tugging at your arm says, “Come on let’s go.” We hear the urgency…”let’s go!” At Mass, we have been nourished by GOD’s WORD, and the BREAD of LIFE. […]