248 Intentionality & Purpose for Lent & Holy Week with Katie Bogner & Shari Van Vranken

AMDG. “Advent is all cozy and sparkling lights… but Lent on the other hand, kids do not look forward to as much.”  

Looking for a new way to engage your children during this Lent? All About Advent and Christmas author Katie Bogner and illustrator Shari Van Vranken join the Kolbecast to announce their new book, All About Lent & Holy Week: Sharing the Seasons of Repentance & Salvation with Children. Their new Lenten guide is suitable for students of all age levels, with multiple layers of content for students to engage with. “That is something I very rarely see in a book,” Curriculum Director Maggie Hayden comments, “I feel like it just met the whole group at a level where they are interested.”  

The group’s conversation ranges over a wide variety of liturgical topics, including Lenten practices, such as prayer, fasting, and almsgiving; each member shares their family’s Lenten practices, providing a wide variety of inspiration to draw from. The group also discusses the feast days in Lent, both how we should celebrate them and why. Finally, the group discusses all things Holy Week, and strategies to engage children of every age level in the holiest week of the year.

Links mentioned & relevant: 

• Get your copy of All about Lent & Holy Week here!  

• Katie & Shari’s first book: All about Advent & Christmas: Sharing the Seasons of Hope & Wonder with Children 

• Katie’s blog Look to Him and Be Radiant, which has a wealth of resources suitable for home, parish, or school use for Lent/Easter and many other aspects of liturgical living and catechesis  

• Shari’s website Catholic Paper Goods 

• Catholic Paper Goods on Etsy 

• Follow @stpaulcenter, @emmausroadpublishing, @katherine.bogner, and @catholicpapergoods on Instagram. 

Related Kolbecast episodes: 

• 184 Hope & Wonder with Katie Bogner & Shari Van Vranken 

• 192 Kitchen Doings 

• 194 Visual Literacy with Amanda Shepard 

• 198 The Sign of Our Salvation with Dr. Gilbert Lavoie 

• 150 A Family Apostolate: Liturgical Living with Kendra Tierney 

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