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Lenten Chain
Make up strips of white paper about one by six inches. Discuss what the family can do as a family and write that on a strip of the chain and then ask each member of the family to write something they will personally do (young children will need help with this to formulate an idea and you could write it for them) and add that to the chain. Repeat this ritual each week adding links to the chain so that by Good Friday the chain will have grown to 40+ links.
Instead of the chain, some families make a large cross and tape "pledges" to it. Some suggestons for family things to do:
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go to Mass once during the week as a family,
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participate as a family in the Stations of the Cross in the parish;
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find time to read the Bible together as a family for fifteen minutes daily;
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set aside one evening a week just for family togetherness with no TV, only family activities.
Ideas for little kids...
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say a prayer for someone who is sick;
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share lots of smiles today;
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do someone else's chores for them, pray for the homeless and think about ways your family might help them.
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