Bringing Lent Home With St. John Paul II: Prayers, Reflections, and Activities for Families

Bringing Lent Home With St. John Paul II: Prayers, Reflections, and Activities for Families by O'Boyle, Donna-Marie Cooper. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781594715600.

This timely new addition to the Bringing Lent Home series focuses on the life and wisdom of recently canonized St. John Paul II. Designed by Donna-Marie Cooper OBoyle for families with young children, it offers a variety of prayers and practices for each day of Lent. This family guide to prayer and Lenten devotion is the perfect way to deepen a familys observance of Lent while also learning about St. John Paul II, beloved pope for more than thirty-five years (1978 –2005) and one of the Churchs newest saints. Structured around a daily quotation from St. John Paul II, a story about his life, and practical suggestions for living the threefold call of Lent—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—this useful booklet takes the worry and the work out of planning the familys Lent and can be used with any of the three Catholic lectionary cycles. Parents can enhance their own daily prayer by using the booklets reflections for parents. On Sundays, families focus on the themes assigned to that Sunday of Lent, and Cooper OBoyle suggests a project for the week ahead.