On this Feast Day of St. Joseph, my patron saint, let’s take a moment to reflect on his quiet nature and how fitting that is for the Lenten season! Here is my post from a couple of years ago on St. Joseph along with an activity from my 40 Ideas for 40 Days of Lent. Happy Feast Day to all the Joe’s out there!
Lent
40 Ideas for 40 Days – Lenten Activities: Salt Dough Crown of Thorns
Today’s activity – a Salt Dough Crown of Thorns – can be found in many places on the Internet, I am drawing from a couple of Web sites: Ten Kids and a Dog and Three Sided Wheel (which has an excellent tutorial) Basically, you make a salt dough and then roll out the dough into 3 long rolls/ropes. Next, you braid the rolls/ropes and shape it into a circle. Add toothpicks (loosely) to represent the thorns, asking forgiveness […]
Mary and the Saints
Pop-Up Catechesis: St. Joseph and a Place for Introverts in the Church
We live in a culture that idealizes extroverts. As a society, we too often tend to equate success, not only with money, but also with the person who can talk the loudest and fastest. We live in a culture of personality. Unfortunately (and this is a pet peeve of mine), the same is often true in our Church: we too often equate discipleship with the ability to talk loud, fast, and convincingly about our faith in […]
Lent
101 (plus 10) Practical Fasting Ideas for Lent
Nice ideas from Nick Senger at One Catholic Life with 101 practical fasting ideas (plus 10 bonus ideas) for Lent. Nice job, Nick! 101 Practical Fasting Ideas for Lent P.S. Sorry to tempt you with this pic of chocolates! Print Friendly
Happy feast day Joe!
Thanks Nick!
Hope you had a great Feast Day, Joe! Here is a link to some more information/resources about Saint Joseph and the celebration of his Feast Day, http://www.instituteforchristianformation.org/Joseph.html.
Thanks Sandra!