Ash Wednesday is a sensory experience of something holy that’s hard to put into words. It’s a spiritual feeling made physical in the ashes that touch our foreheads. It’s a tactile reminder of the 40 days of Lent, when Catholics focus on prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Remember you are dust and to dust you shall…
Lent is a time that recalls suffering with no day more poignant than Good Friday. As parents of children with special needs, our lives can be marked by suffering in different ways; be it extra paperwork and appointments filling our days, grief over our lost dreams for our children, or feelings of isolation, to name…
Each year, I find myself wanting to observe and bring Holy Week into our home. Each year, I find myself feeling I’ve come up short with what I’ve accomplished. This year, I put together my ideas before Lent started. This way we could start using them not only during Holy Week, but throughout our Lenten…
Lent is a season of forty days leading up to Easter during which we try to strip away the distractions in our lives so we can focus on deepening our relationship with God. Catholics often mark this time of year in three ways: fasting, almsgiving, and prayer. I am sharing a few ways our family…
Lent is fast approaching and if you’re the parent of a child with disabilities, it can feel like there’s nothing else you can tack on or give up without killing yourself. You might be thinking you’re too tired, too overwhelmed, and life is already too hard for you to even think about giving anything up…
Every year at this time I see lots of articles on blogs and Catholic sites with titles like “25 Things You Can Give Up for Lent” or “Creative Things to Do for Lent” and around the same time some of my friends will declare (on social media, naturally) that they are fasting from social media…
