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Daily Lenten Meditations

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  • Pray Light a candle. Every time you pass that candle today, offer a prayer of thanks. Don’t ask for anything. Just thank him.
  • Fast Don’t cut corners. Even if no one will know, complete today’s work thoroughly.
  • Give Touch is a powerful thing. Make an effort today to touch your children: a hug, a shoulder rub, a tousled head -- especially the bigger ones
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  • Pray Make five minutes in the morning, at midday and in the evening to be still, silent, and alone, only asking God to infuse your soul with his will.
  • Fast No noise today. Turn off the TV, the radio, the iPod. Find God in the silence.
  • Give Pay particular unsolicited attention to your least demanding child today.
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  • Pray Begin a gratitude journal. At the end of the day, jot down five things for which you are grateful. Think upon these things.
  • Fast Remember the first time you had a moment alone with your first child. What did you promise him? Do that. Be that.
  • Give We can only expect what we inspect. For every task you assign today, follow through and before it’s truly finished ensure that there is praise from you.
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  • Pray “My sheep listen to my voice. I know them and they follow me." -- John 10:27
  • Fast Every time a child interrupts you today, stop what you are doing and look into his eyes as he talks.
  • Give “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” -- Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Speak kindly all day long.
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  • Pray Ask God to show you how weak and small you are. Open your heart to see it.
  • Fast Don’t argue today. As much as possible give up, give in, give way.
  • Give When you are tempted to put on the TV for kids today, pull out a stack of favorite picture books instead. Invite the kids to join you on the couch.
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  • Pray Take a walk, even if it’s cold or raining. Leave your iPod at home.
  • Fast Think of someone whose life you are tempted to envy and then choke out these words: Thank you, God, for the blessings you have given to X. Help me to see my own.
  • Give Think about the kind of person your husband married. Be that person for him today.
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  • Pray "Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender." -- St. Therese of Lisieux
  • Fast As you go about your daily routine today, remember that you are expecting someone very important for dinner tonight. Together with your children, work towards your husband’s homecoming as if you were expecting to welcome a king back to his castle.
  • Give “You can do nothing with children unless you win their confidence and love by bringing them into touch with oneself, by breaking through all the hindrances that keep them at a distance. We must accommodate ourselves to their tastes, we must make ourselves like them.” -- St. John Bosco
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  • Pray Take this quote to prayer today and listen to God’s answer: “Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not tell you so. Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.” -- John Paul II
  • Fast Stop looking for encouragement and approval. Genuinely encourage and affirm someone else instead.
  • Give Let your child choose a huge stack of picture books (use that word “huge” when you ask her to gather them). Read them all to her today.
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  • Pray Persevere. “He who does not give up prayer cannot possibly continue to offend God habitually. Either he will give up prayer, or he will give up sinning.” -- St. Alphonsus Liguori
  • Fast Don’t forget that the only pedestal you need ever stand on, is the one your husband and children build for you.
  • Give Focus on your home today. The world can find another volunteer, but your husband and children have only you.
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  • Pray Insist on quiet from all your children during naptime today. Pray the Divine Mercy chaplet.
  • Fast We’re half way through. Compare yourself now only to yourself when Lent began. Tweak the plan.
  • Give Reach out to a local friend today. Reconnect.
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  • Pray Ask God to make you humble and lowly.
  • Fast Don’t compare or complain. Do compliment.
  • Give Pack a picnic and go somewhere to eat it with your children. If the weather is prohibitive, build a tent in the living room and it eat there. Sit on the ground with them. Be fully present.
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  • Pray Sometime before bedtime tonight, make time to pray with and for each of your children.
  • Fast Rise a little earlier and bring your husband breakfast in bed. (If it’s too late today, plan for tomorrow).
  • Give Plan a date night.
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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is Editorial Director of Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea: Musings of a Catholic Mom (Pauline 2005) and Mom to Mom, Day to Day: Advice and Support for Catholic Living (Pauline 2007). Though she once struggled to separate her life …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and together they are the parents of five lively boys. Besides being a mom, she is also a writer and a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has maintained her personal blog at Testosterhome.net where she …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a Catholic web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics. Most recently she has authored The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also employed as webmaster for her parish web sites. …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their young children Camilla and Blaise. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site is ABC Family. …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is the managing editor of Faith & Family magazine. She is (yikes!) an almost 30 year-old, single lady, living in Connecticut with her two cousins in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law …
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Hallie Lord

Hallie Lord
Hallie Lord married her dashing husband, Dan, in the fall of 2001 (the same year, coincidentally, that she joyfully converted to the Catholic faith). They now happily reside in the deep South with their two energetic boys and two very sassy girls. In her *ample* spare time, Hallie enjoys cheap wine, …
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Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr John Bartunek, LC, STL, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and …
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Melissa Wiley

Melissa Wiley
Melissa Wiley is a homeschooling mother of six and the author of The Martha Years and The Charlotte Years, two series of books about the ancestors of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She blogs about children’s books, family, and home education at Here in the Bonny Glen.
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Comments

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Yummy!

http://www.katewicker.com/2008/12/faith-and-family-live-cookie-swap.html

 

Kate, I added your link to the Mr Linky form for you. Thanks!

 

I shared my recipe for toffee candy. It’s super-easy to make and makes a lot, but be warned: It is seriously addictive. When I make it, I have to give it away FAST. Otherwise, I’ll eat the entire batch in a day or two. Very bad.

 

Cookie exchange tomorrow!

 

The Cranberry-White Chocolate cookie was a hit at a cookie swap I attended last Saturday. It’s super simple to make too! Enjoy!

 

My recipe is for marshmallows, not cookies, but they’re still good!

 

Thanks, Danielle. I was on a Mac this morning (now a PC) and Mr. Linky wasn’t coming through. for some reason. I see the form on this computer. Sorry about that!

Can’t wait to try some of these recipes.  smile

 

I made the Irish Cream Truffle Fudge last year, and it is soooo good. I almost always look on recipezaar for recipes I want to use.

 

I’m getting together with a group of homeschooling moms on Friday to pray the rosary and share cookies and recipes.  I’m looking forward to passing this site on to them!

 

I shared a sugar cookie recipe that’s super easy!

 

I don’t have a blog or “special” cookie recipe to share (although I bake nonstop from Oct till after Christmas!), I have to 2nd Brenda’s recommendation for the Holiday Pretzel Treats…they are SO easy to make & everyone just LOVES them!  We have done them in Reese’s Pieces, too, for one of my boy’s b’day parties last year.  My oldest son (17) thinks that the sound of them is “gross” but once he pops one in his mouth, he can’t stop eating them!  He grabbed a handful to share w/his girlfriend after school today…after sharing some w/her IN school today (yes, we made a HUGE batch of them just a couple of days ago!).  God bless your Advent & Christmas cookie baking!!!

 

I added a recipe for Cherry Mash Candy!  I can’t wait to get around to everyone’s sites!  We’re baking next week!

 

I realized I neglected to mention here in the comments what recipes I shared. I included German Crescent Cookies (a family favorite) and Whole Wheat Cranberry Nut Bread (a healthy alternative to all the cookies).

I love this virtual swap!  I’m going to save all of these recipes. 

God bless!

 

I have two that always find there way into any goodie bag we give at the holidays. They are both drop cookies and super easy.
I can’t wait to try some of these. They all look fabulous!
Blessings,
Mary
PS. I didn’t realize there was another recipe link for Cranberry Chocolate Chip cookies. Oh well. I am glad I put in two!

 

I have several posts on cookies I make during the Christmas season - Butternut Snowballs, Christmas Pretzels, Peanut Krispies and more are coming!  Every year we try and add two more cookie recipes to our “collection”.  I can’t wait to try some of the recipes shared here.  What a great idea.  Thank you!

 

Now I just have to start cooking!

 

I just posted a recipe on “turtles” (using rolos).  I line my cookie sheet with wax paper and use the Snyders Square pretzels and I only put my oven at 250 degrees and put in for 4-5 minutes.

These are SOOOOO addicting! tongue laugh

 

This is great!  I just posted a recipe for Chocolate Kissed Peanut butter cookies.  I think this type of cookie is pretty popular around the holidays but this is the simplest recipe for it I’ve found and they are soooooo yummy!  Thanks for all your recipes and enjoy!

 

I posted Mexican Churros, for Our Lady of Guadalupe’s feast day tomorrow.

 

I’m no baker but I had to share this simple recipe I found at cooks.com for Christmas chocolate chip cookies.  It is chocolate chip cookies with crushed candy cane.  They are tasty,quick, and pretty to look at.  The best part is that a non-baker like myself was able to make them without messing them up!
Here is the link to the website:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1822,154182-245203,00.html


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