Thanksgiving Fish and Shellfish Recipes for Lent

Thanksgiving Fish and Shellfish Recipes for Pescetarian Diet and Vegetarians This article was written for Thanksgiving vegetarian recipes, but the food ideas work perfectly for lent. It includes harvest vegetable-based meals, fish, seafood and foods tweaked for the Mediterranean Diet. My husband and I are using this diet to meat my need to lose weight and both our needs to watch cholesterol. The Mediterranean Diet could also be called the lent diet or the Catholic social justice diet: it features locally grown produced, fairly traded foods, frugality, meatless meals, fish-based foods and an emphasis on simplicity and using what's on-hand. It gels perfectly with the lenten virtues of fasting, abstinence, prayer and almsgiving.

If you don't like fish or have kids who don't, you can offer up sufferings for the persecuted World Church. My Filipino friend could list many sufferings in her homeland that could be used as lenten sacrificial fast. On a lighter note, when I homeschooled, we used to make recipes from the Catholic Social Services Operation Rice Bowl prayer calender. I once served a recipe that was a porridge made of bananas, peas and onions. We did show solidarity with the poor and it made us give thanks for our many blessings. But it was not pleasant. Each year, my kids give thanks that mom's lenten experiments have never included that recipe again.

May these recipes bless your lent. Read on...

Free Printable Catholic Crafts for Christmas Around the World

Catholic homeschoolers, teaching a unit on Asia, African-American, North American, Latino or Celtic culture? Need some great free printable craft projects from these ethnic groups? Hewlett-Packard has many free crafts projects. These free printable craft activities make great projects for homeschoolers and teachers. Use these free printables for your next social studies, world history, literature or geography unit. Parents and families: need a project for your child to complete for a school project? Check these out. Free printable projects like these make excellent activities for special needs students also. Perfect for Chinese New Year, Valentines Day, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Patrick's Day and saints feast days from other countries. Free Printable Ethnic and Cultural Crafts for Social Studies

Free Printable Epiphany Party Planner

 Most students will return to school shortly, whether they are home-schooled or if they attend a traditional school. The Epiphany (Three Kings Day, Twelfth Night) holiday is celebrated in the Roman Catholic church and the eastern orthodox churches on January 6. It rounds out the Christmas octave. In many countries around the world, Epiphany is the major gift-giving holiday. Why not combine celebrate this lovely feast day with a party? Round out the winter vacation and holiday break and make the return to studies a positive time by celebrating Epiphany. Here are crafts, games, activities, printables, historical helps, religious devotions and party planning helps. Perfect for social studies, too. Activities for all ages included. Read on...Free Printable Epiphany Party Planner

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