The Annunciation & Some Lenten Lesson Plans

Today we celebrated the Annunciation. After Liturgy we read the short story of the Annunciation from Orthodox Online and colored our icons.

I couldn't get them to stay still long enough not to have their colorings come out blurry. 

Pic Pic and I have also been working on a Lenten Journey Poster.

For each day of lent a footstep is added leading to the icons of Palm Sunday and the Resurrection.

We are having fun working on "crafts" as Pic Pic calls them for Lent. It is such an amazing thing to see her comprehending our faith. We have a few more "crafts" we will try and work on, time permitting.

Although this is our second year of Lent in the Orthodox church, we are still having many firsts. Last year we were living in another town and were only able to make services every other Sunday and the kids and I missed Pascha services since I had just had Ice Man.

Lenten Reading

With Great Lent just around the corner, I have started to gather reading material for this fasting season. For the past couple years I have read Ascending the Heights A Layman's Guide to The Ladder of the Divine Ascent by Father John Mack. I look forwarding to reading this each Lenten season as a constant reminder of the "rungs" I need to work on. I will also be reading The Royal Way of the Cross of Our Lord Leading to Eternal Life. This will be my first time reading it. I look forward to the gems it will hold.

I would like to get back in the habit of reading more and being less distracted and concerned with worldly matters. I have a night stand full of books to read and have either started them and not finished or haven't even started them. Many of them are books that I have read in the past that I would like to read again and others are new. I will try and post any other books I have time to read during this season.

What books are you reading this Lenten season?