We hope that the NEW CRS Rice Bowl program enhances your faith community’s Lenten journey.
We along with Catholic Relief Services encourage you to:
- Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter from your community accounts, and your personal ones. Look for Lenten inspiration and tell us how your Lent is going.
- Spread the word about CRS Rice Bowl. Utilize the sample Facebook posts and sample Tweets.
- Encourage participants to activate their Rice Bowls. If you have a kick-off event, make activating part of it. Participants will represent your parish or school on the participation map and receive weekly email reflections.
Here are a few ideas to help you with your celebration of the Lenten season:
- Be sure that each family has a CRS Rice Bowl. Consider adapting and sending this letter with the Rice Bowls to help families think about how they will use the materials as part of their Lenten observances.
- Encourage parishioners to take an extra Rice Bowl as a “spiritual gift” for a friend or extended family member during this Year of Faith.
- Use these bulletin announcements and inserts to remind families to use CRS Rice Bowl this Lent.
- Begin a discussion about Rice Bowl and Lent with these homily starters.
- (Schools) Be sure that each student has a Rice Bowl to take home to use with his or her family this Lent. Consider adapting and sending this letter with the Rice Bowls to help families think about how they will use the materials as part of their Lenten observances.
- Consider reading a brief daily reflection during the morning announcements each day (or invite a student to read them!)
- Open the Lenten season with this Prayer Service in homeroom or religion classes, or as a school-wide assembly.
If you need extra Rice Bowls with the inserted Spiritual Guide, posters, Educator Guides, DVDs, donation envelopes (all of these are also in English and Spanish) or our customized placemats – “while supplies last” – please contact us in the Missions Office. Additional Rice Bowl and Lenten resources from your Missions Office are available at www.seattlearchdiocese.org/Missions.
Thank you for bringing Lent to life with CRS Rice Bowl!
The CRS Rice Bowl Team and your Missions Office
www.crsricebowl.org www.crsricebowl.org/es/ www.seattlearchdiocese.org/Missions
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