Tag: Lent
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Lent and Easter Kids’ Book and Gift Recommendations
Do you guys make Easter baskets for your kids or godchildren? We do! I think it’s a super fun reward for all of the hard work the kids have been doing to make sacrifices for Jesus during Lent. Our Easter baskets usually have a book for each kid, some favorite candy and snacks, and a…
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Prepping for Lent and Easter
As we enter our pre-Lenten season in the Western Rite, I’ve put together some of my favorite tips, materials, and go-tos for Lent. Like with everything on my blog, this is what one Western Rite Orthodox family does, but please, use whatever is most helpful for you and your family. In my next post I…
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Reflections on the Third Sunday in Lent
I suspect that most people would likely consider St. Antony to be a little crazy, selling all that he had, giving it to the poor, and deciding to live by himself in the Egyptian desert, struggling there to find out what it took to live out the teachings of the Gospel in thought, word, and…
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Reflections on “Pererinion”
We are now into our Lenten pilgrimage as brothers and sisters in the communion of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ. As such, I thought it a good time to answer a question that has come to me about this blog. First, the title. Pererinion, as noted, means Pilgrimage in Welsh. Why Welsh? Two…
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Reflections on the First Sunday in Lent
We begin Lent with the reading of the account of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, uniting our meager fast to His own. But as we look more closely at the two accounts in St. Matthew and St. Luke, some interesting points are revealed. It should be obvious that this account had to have come from…