Lent 2025 Calendar Templates now available!
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Advent paper chains are like 3-D Advent calendars. They are a physical and visual way to mark the daily journey to Christmas. Paper chains are an easy and playful way for kids to learn Advent words. Pick simple words like "wait, prepare, watch, baby, dark...." For...
My early-childhood, next-door neighbor always had an Advent calendar. In our Christian Science household we did not celebrate Advent, but I coveted all those little doors my friend Marian opened every day in the weeks before Christmas. Each door revealed tiny,...
Yes to the new creation! Yes to Christ is Risen! Yes to all that I do not understand about this new beginning! Alleluia! This year I am neither exhausted nor "sooo ready for Lent and Easter to be over." What is different from past Lents was not bingeing on a multitude...
When people as early as the 4th century began to make pilgrimages to the Holy Land from Europe and Asia, they wanted to walk the route Jesus took from the place of his death sentence by Pilate to the place of his crucifixion and burial. This walk became known as the...
I love this one-day-at-a-time, one tear-at-a-time journey through Lent. Lent for Everyone--Year C by N.T. Wright is a thoughtful combination of Scripture and reflection. The devotional includes a daily reading from Luke followed by a meditation from the author. As I...
This year I'm combining the Tear Drop Spiral Template with a daily devotional called Lent for Everyone: Luke, Year C: A Daily Devotional by N.T. Wright. In many liturgical churches, the Gospel readings for the Sundays of Lent this year (Year C in a three-year cycle)...
Lent starts this coming Wednesday, March 6! Here are two additional Lenten Calendar Templates. Click on the version you want below the picture; download; and print. The first one with the hearts was created by Pat Maier of Visual Faith Ministry. It has 40 spaces. For...
Using a calendar template is a simple, daily prayer practice for making the journey through Lent. Each day choose a word to ponder or a person to pray for. Write the word or name in the allotted space with a pen and draw or doodle around it. Add color with colored...
Celebrate the coming of Christ. Celebrate Incarnation. Celebrate Emmanuel. For Unto Us a Child is born. Unto us a Son is Given. Isaiah 9:6-7 May this completed Advent be the start of a fresh, new journey with Jesus for the coming year, an unfolding experience of...
Below are a few verbal and visual reflections on words from#AdventWord 2018. #SINGing is my primary learning style. It is probably not in the educators' official handbook of learning styles with auditory, verbal, visual, kinesthetic...but it includes all of those ways...