With Lent just around the corner, I've started thinking of some things that busy moms like me could participate in to feed the soul and help focus attention back on Jesus. Here's a few ideas I've come up with:
1. Get involved in a Lenten study group for women, like Johnnette Benkovic's Women Of Grace study group--Full of Grace: Women and the Abundant Life Foundational Study (being done through local parishes.) In the San Francisco Bay Area, St. Luke Catholic Church in Foster City will be presenting this study group.
St. Luke Community Center
Starting Feb. 23rd, Mondays 7-9pm
Contact: Elizabeth --epnehme@yahoo.com
2. Participate in your local 40 Days For Life--40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life effort that consists of: 40 days of prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil outside a local abortion clinic, and community outreach in an effort to witness to the dignity of life and to end abortion in this country.
St. Luke Community Center
Starting Feb. 23rd, Mondays 7-9pm
Contact: Elizabeth --epnehme@yahoo.com
2. Participate in your local 40 Days For Life--40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life effort that consists of: 40 days of prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil outside a local abortion clinic, and community outreach in an effort to witness to the dignity of life and to end abortion in this country.
San Mateo, San Francisco, and Oakland, California are participating this year.
3. Go to Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at least once a month, for at least 30 minutes...but an hour or more is even better. And go by yourself!
4. Stop by your local Church with the kids, just to say "Hi" to Jesus.
5. Pray with your husband each night before bed, even if it's only a short prayer, and share your joys and concerns with Jesus as a couple.
What are your ideas?? (Share in the comments section.)
3. Go to Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at least once a month, for at least 30 minutes...but an hour or more is even better. And go by yourself!
4. Stop by your local Church with the kids, just to say "Hi" to Jesus.
5. Pray with your husband each night before bed, even if it's only a short prayer, and share your joys and concerns with Jesus as a couple.
What are your ideas?? (Share in the comments section.)
2 comments:
Good to know about the 40 Days for Life. It's great that the Bay Area is participating. It's not an easy thing to do at all.
Lent is a good time to shape up the diet: no chocolate, no sugar, only dessert 2-3 times a week. No caffeine.
I enjoy trying to get to adoration at least once if not twice a week. As a mother I have no idea what is possible.
YAY for 40 days for LIFE!!!! What a wonderful witness to life!
I was reading an article about the Walk for Life West Coast in which the Mayor of San Francisco asked pro-choice people not to counter-protest the Walk saying, "It's better they walk on one day, than stand in front of the clinics of our city." A big thank you to all who are making the sacrifice to be a witness of life outside these places where the most innocent are killed. God bless you!
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