You don’t have to be Catholic to celebrate Lent. So this morning I thought I’d take a few minutes to talk to my son about Lent and briefly give him some answers to his questions. Lent is a season that my kids have seldom practiced in its fullness. We were accustomed to the liturgies and customs of a traditional church, but when we left, many of those traditions were no longer practiced where we were attending. Both my husband and I grew up in Catholic households, and I attended Catholic school my whole life.
But before that time, we worshiped as a family in the Catholic Church. Since he was about 4 or 5 we have attended churches that were less liturgical in nature. As I was trying to get everyone up and ready for school this morning, my oldest son asked me, “Have I ever gotten ashes on my forehead on Ash Wednesday? Have we celebrated Lent?”
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