Announcing:
Saint Mary's Press winner for the week of January 30, 2009!
Congratulations to Patrick McIlmoyle!

Patrick McIlmoyle will receive a copy of Keeping Time: Praying Lent Throughout the School Day, a $7.95 value.

Bring the season of Lent into every class with Keeping Time: Praying Lent Throughout the School Day! Help students and faculty members recognize the season's rhythm through brief and easy-to-lead prayers that enter into the uniqueness of this season. For each school day, Keeping Time includes a Scripture verse for the start of each class hour, 8 short prayers--one for each period--and a final blessing.

Look Inside: You can view an online demonstration of the Keeping Time on the SMP Web catalog. Search for "Keeping Time Lent," or use this link to go to the product description, http://www.smp.org/ItemDetail.cfm?ItemNum=3834. Then use the "look inside" button next to the cover image to see the table of contents, the introduction, and the prayers for the First Week of Lent.

Keeping Time: Praying Lent Throughout the School Day, by Sandra Iwanski
ISBN 978-0-88489-756-9, paper, 64 pages, $7.95
http://www.smp.org/ItemDetail.cfm?ItemNum=3834

Keeping Time Lent
by Steven McGlaun

Lent is approaching and presents to us a wonderful opportunity to invite young people into a daily rhythm of prayer. Through inviting students and faculty into a more intentional and focused daily payer experience during Lent we can both educate about them about Lent and prepare them for Easter. When I was a campus minister it was an annual struggle to find daily prayers for classes that were effective, worked with the flow of the school day and were accessible to both teacher and student.

Saint Mary's Press is excited to introduce a new resource to assist Catholic schools in daily prayer during the season of Lent. Keeping Time: Praying Lent Throughout the School Day is an amazing resources that provides daily prayers, centered on the Scriptures, for each day and class period of the Lenten season. Each school day during the Lenten season is presented with a Scripture verse and 8 short prayers, one for each class period of the day. Using these prayers at the start of each class period over the course the day students and facility will discover a deep and varied Lenten prayer experience.

You can find the prayers for Ash Wednesday from Keeping Time: Praying Lent Throughout the School Day at http://www.smp.org/resourcepage.cfm?article=552

SMP at LA Congress

Saint Mary's Press will be attending the 2009 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress from February 26-March 1. Stop by our booth to see our newest releases like The Catholic Connections Handbook for Middle Schoolers and the new Catholic Connections faith formation program for grades 6-8.

Take advantage of show specials, including

• Saint Mary's Press College Study Bible for $26 (save $6.95!)
• The Catholic Youth Bible for $20 (save $4.95!)
• Breakthrough! The Bible for Young Catholics for $16 (save $3.95!)
• Free shipping on orders shipping within the continental U.S.
  
  These specials are available only at the 2009 LA Congress, on paperback editions. Register for this conference at http://www.recongress.org/.

Online Resources for Lent

Our Web site has Lent and Easter prayers, reflections, and activities just for you and your teens. Start at http://www.smp.org/resourcelist.cfm?category=30 to find

• a Liturgical year activity
• a Lent Prayer calendar
• a Pentecost reflection
• a Lent art activity
• an Easter reflection
• and more!