Family Discipleship Practices

Let Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, and Ordinary Time shape a sustainable household rhythm of preparation and celebration.

Explore an embodied prayer that remembers the Triune God, the cross of Christ, and the promise that we belong to Jesus.

Build a quiet, tactile collection of prayer and Scripture tools that supports children's genuine participation in worship.

Move beyond boredom and distraction by helping children and adults notice, participate, wonder, and reflect on gathered worship together.

Use the church's acclamation, the Ascension story, and the open sky to practice remembrance, hope, and wonder together.

Prepare for the Lord's Table through welcome, embodied participation, wondering, and conversation before and after worship.

Cultivate joy through gratitude, art, music, meals, milestones, Communion, and stories of God's goodness

Practice holy looking with an icon, a work of art, or the beauty of creation and notice where God's glory shines through.

Turn an ordinary family meal into a gentle daily rhythm of gratitude, prayer, and attention to God.

Help your family welcome the Holy Spirit through Scripture, breath, listening, service, and careful discernment without pressure or performance.

Let the images of the Good Shepherd give your family words for guidance, rest, courage, comfort, and belonging.

Explore Isaiah's vision of fasting by turning something your family releases into generosity, welcome, and justice.

Introduce children to a few quiet minutes of resting in the loving presence of Jesus.

Help your family inhabit the Bible's prayer book through unison, responsive reading, alternating voices, and song.

Help children practice Christian hospitality through an open chair, shared attention, simple invitations, and welcome that does not depend on a perfect home or meal.

Setting the Table for a Shared Rhythm 🍞🌿 Every family already has a rhythm. Morning scrambles. Car rides. Bedtime negotiations that somehow turn into philosophical debates about water, hunger, and one more hug. A Family Rule of Life doesn’t erase that rhythm. It listens to it… and then gently tunes it. Think of it less like a rulebook and more like a family song . Something simple enough to remember. Steady enough to return to. Spacious enough for everyone to find their voi

The Prayer of Lament is a practice to engage with big feelings

The Difficult Discussion When a young person in a community dies, it ripples outward. Such a traumatic event may be the closest and earliest experience with death a young person has. Children and adolescents may have big feelings and questions. A young life cut short feels especially unfair. That the death happens to someone around their age is shocking to a young mind used to the protection of family and the youthful feeling of invincibility. These issues are compounded when

Saint Ignatius often stresses in his writings about “finding God in all things”, which led some of his followers in the Society of Jesus...

Icons are like a window to spiritual realities. They give us images to contemplate, from images of Christ to biblical stories and saints. They are idealized in a way to make them look unreal, communicating that the truths they present are spiritual in nature. They often play with perspective, putting the viewer in the scene depicted. The forms and composition of icons come from a long tradition. Everything is purposeful to communicate spiritual truths. This includes color, sy