Thursday, March 23, 2006

Lent Begins


Yesterday, Ash Wednesday, our family began it's observance of Lent by attending church in the evening and also by creating this Lenten Cross earlier in the day.

While browsing through Lenten activities I came across an idea for a Lenten Cross on this site. Since one of my favorite traditions during Advent is the lighting of our advent candles I knew this would be a great idea for our family for Lent. I used modeling clay for the cross, sculpting it into a free form and then pressed the candles into the clay. There are 7 candles total - one for Ash Wednesday and then one for each Sunday in Lent. At Easter we will remove the lenten candles and replace them with a larger white candle which we will decorate as our Easter Paschal candle. It will sit in the middle empty space of the cross.

Surrounding our Lenten Cross are 40 small crosses I cut out of purple construction paper. These represent the 40 days of Lent. Each day Josh will say a special prayer, perform an act of kindeness or one of sacrifice. He will then take a cross and place it into the basket. These visuals will act as reminders both to the time of Easter approaching and for Josh the acts that he has done in preparation during this most holy time of the church year.

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