Lent with kids
Kids can't fast, and forty days is forever when you're eight. But small sacrifices done with love? Kids are better at that than we are.
St. Thérèse called it the Little Way: pick the broken cookie, let your sister go first, say one kind thing to the kid who bugs you. Lent-sized for little hearts. And the season comes with friends. St. Patrick's feast lands right in the middle of Lent, on March 17, and St. Catherine of Siena follows in April.
We add to this page as new letters and printables come off the drawing table, so check back each Lent.
Saints to walk through Lent with
- St. Thérèse of Lisieux The Little Way: doing small things with great love.
- St. Patrick — March 17 Kidnapped by pirates, and he went back to forgive them.
- St. Catherine of Siena — April 29 The girl who told the Pope what to do. He listened.
A saint a month, all year long. Hand-drawn letters, mailed to your little one.
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