Welcome to the Children and Families Resources Portal!
Here is a collection of resources which will help to enhance your weekly experience of the Mass and also provide you with some ideas for art & craft and for prayer as a family.
Do take some time to browse and discover some of the lovely online resources on offer. We hope you’ll find that these resources create opportunities for you to celebrate your faith as a family, with activities to suit all members!
“Let the little children come to me and do not stop them for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these”
(Matthew 19: 14)
Lord, you love children!
We thank you for the enthusiasm and love that they display in abundance. Give them courage and understanding at this time and may they experience the joy of your blessings. We pray that their families might always seek to draw them closer, day by day, to your sacred heart. Be with each family in their personal circumstances and remind each child and parent of how very special they are and how much you love them.
Amen
We are in the Season of......Lent
What is Lent?
Lent last for 40 days, beginning with Ash Wednesday. It is a time of preparation for Easter and, like Jesus – who went into the desert to pray and fast for 40 days – we are invited to simplify our lives and to use three things to help us focus more on God and less on ourselves during this season. The three things are: prayer, fasting and giving (or alms-giving). We should try to spend more time with God, by finding times in our day when we can pray. We are encouraged to choose to give up something that we like. The space created allows more space for God. Finally, when we give, we allow ourselves to focus on the poor and the needy and not be so attached to our possessions. This, in turn, should bring us to be grateful for what we have and to place ourselves into God’s care. Lent finishes with Holy Week, where we recall Jesus’s suffering and death and recall his amazing resuurection.
Kids Art and Craft
Let’s get creative…
Use this video to help encourage you this Lent, especially to pray, fast and give (and do good deeds)!
Liturgy Time!
Let’s enjoy prayer and music!!
Join Eleanor, as she helps you prepare for Lent
You can make use of the following printable, or the ideas raised in the video, to get the most out of your Lenten walk
