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    Lent: One Day at a Time for Catholic Teens
    Lent: One Day at a Time for Catholic Teens
    Lent: One Day at a Time for Catholic Teens
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    Lent: One Day at a Time for Catholic Teens

    By Katie Prejean McGrady and Tommy McGrady

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    Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (third place, books for teens).


    Are you looking for a daily Lenten resource for teens that meets them right where they are in life?

    Husband-and-wife youth ministry experts Katie Prejean McGrady and Tommy McGrady offer realistic and engaging spiritual guidance for Lent that includes timely topics for teens such as relationships, being your best, competition, control, fear, and forgiveness.

    The simple format of Lent: One Day at a Time for Catholic Teens offers depth without complexity and direction without pressure. Each daily devotion is based on a Bible passage that connects with a topic important to teens. A brief reflection helps readers consider the day’s topic through the lens of faith.

    Unlike many other Lenten prayer books, each day offers exercises and activities to help teens grow closer to Christ. Optional activities in “Feel Ambitious?” invite teens to read, reflect, and respond to a longer scripture passage that connects to the day’s theme.

    Another unique feature is that on Sundays, the McGradys ask teens to choose one spiritual challenge from a short list to focus on throughout the week. Saturdays provide a simple method to reflect and examine how well they did with their Lenten prayer and practices during the previous week.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAve Maria Press
    Release dateFeb 8, 2019
    ISBN9781594719097
    Lent: One Day at a Time for Catholic Teens
    Author

    Katie Prejean McGrady

    Katie Prejean McGrady is the host of the Ave Explores podcast and The Katie McGrady Show on Sirius XM’s The Catholic Channel. She is an international speaker, the author of Room 24 and Follow, and the coauthor of Lent: One Day at a Time for Catholic Teens and Advent and Christmas: One Day at a Time for Catholic Teens. Prejean McGrady also serves as the host of the Like a Mother podcast and contributes Family Mass Prep on the Hallow app. Her work appears in LaCroix International, Blessed Is She, Our Sunday Visitor, and Aleteia. She also is a commentator on Catholic issues for CNN and NewsNation. Prejean McGrady speaks at a variety of events including NCYC, Steubenville Youth Conferences, the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, and in dioceses and parishes throughout the world. Prejean McGrady earned a theology degree from the University of Dallas. She lives in Louisiana with her family.

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      Lent - Katie Prejean McGrady

      To our Rose,

      the light of our lives and joy of our hearts.

      We love you, bud.

      Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, DC, and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      ____________________________________

      © 2019 by Katie Prejean McGrady and Tommy McGrady

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews, without written permission from Ave Maria Press®, Inc., P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, IN 46556, 1-800-282-1865.

      Founded in 1865, Ave Maria Press is a ministry of the United States Province of Holy Cross.

      www.avemariapress.com

      Paperback: ISBN-13 978-1-59471-908-0

      E-book: ISBN-13 978-1-59471-909-7

      Cover and text design by Samantha Watson.

      Printed and bound in the United States of America.

      Introduction

      What makes the desert beautiful . . . is that somewhere it hides a well.

      —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

      Students rushed in as the tardy bell rang, sliding into their desks and grabbing pen and paper to answer the journal prompt written on the whiteboard. I (Katie) checked attendance and let them work quietly as they answered the day’s question: Why do you think Lent is forty days long?

      As they worked, I pulled up the lecture notes and presentation on my computer and waited patiently, watching as pens were set down one by one, students turning to visit with their friends when they finished.

      That’s it . . . Lent is RUINED!

      Scanning the room, I noticed right away who had shouted in frustration. In the back row, with a candy bar wrapper in his hand, sat Gus: a jovial kid who played football, served on student council, and filled the role of lovable class clown most days.

      Did you give up candy for Lent, Gus? I asked, chuckling quietly.

      YEAH! And I TOTALLY FORGOT! he said, in between chews. Gabe just handed this to me and I ate it without thinking and now . . . his words trailed off as he took another big bite of the forbidden candy bar, and now, Lent is OVER! I didn’t even last a week.

      Have you ever made that same mistake? Lent starts on Ash Wednesday, and, just like a New Year’s resolution, you set a lofty goal for yourself to not eat candy or to avoid sodas or to pray a Rosary every day or to become a super-awesome-saintly-holy-best-Catholic-ever. . . . And inevitably, a few days into Lent, something happens: you instinctively grab a piece of candy from a dish, or you buy a soda at lunch, or you totally forget to pray the Rosary before you go to bed, and next thing you know, it’s the week before Easter and you haven’t done anything you wanted to do or not do the entire season of Lent and you think that Lent is just completely ruined.

      If we think about Lent as a season of doing this or not doing that, then it’s very easy to fail. When we pigeonhole the entire season as a time to complete our Catholic to-do lists filled with stressful tasks, it’s easy to treat these forty days with a win-or-lose attitude. Either we successfully give up the one thing we like and we have a good Lent, or we fail miserably and give in to a temptation and the entire season becomes a colossal waste of time.

      When we think of Lent only in these black-and-white terms and make it about the external things we do or don’t do, then it becomes a few weeks of hurrying up and getting to Easter so we can get back all that stuff we gave up and take a rest from all that extra holy stuff we tried to cram in and celebrate Easter, with marshmallow chicks and fine chocolates. With this little book we want to help you break that cycle of lame Lents and instead take you on a journey of sorts that we hope brings you

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