The Living Nativity

Confession

Today we share with you a new form of prayer that is taken from USCCB's "We Are Salt and Light."  We hope you use this prayer as you continue on your Lenten Journey.

In today's episode we will be sharing some ideas on meatless meals with you.  You can check more of these out at https://www.crsricebowl.org/recipe

Today we will read and allow reflection time on The First Song of the Suffering Servant, Isiah Chapter 42, The Servant of the Lord. 

In todays Podcast we will read and reflect on Psalms, Chapter 6. 

"A prayer that does not lead you to practical action for your brother," Pope Francis says, "is a sterile and incomplete prayer." On Mondays during Lent we will look at different ways to pray.  The organization "we are salt and light " gives examples of nine ways to pray.  Today we will explain The Newspaper Prayer and Becoming a Character in the Parables.  The following Gospel readings will work well for the parable prayers during the Season of Lent.  

John 5: 1-15; Luke 8:40-56; Mark 1:40-45;Mt. 20:29-34

In this Episode you will join us as we recite the Stations of the Cross.  This is something you can do along with us as you walk, wait in traffic, stir the macaroni or as a family at the end of the day.

In this episode QHR Wea students consider questions about Lent and its practices.  They discuss what we do during Lent and how we do it.

This Ash Wednesday we talk about fasting and where it originated.  "Fasting is always preparatory."  The article in this episode one podcast draws in part on the writings of Alexander Schmemann, "Notes in Liturgical Theology."