Educators
Resources for parishes are designed to help you integrate Operation Rice Bowl into your faith community’s Lenten celebration. Use activity suggestions, homily notes, bulletin announcements and interactive resources to enrich your community’s Lenten experience.
Downloadable Materials
The Educator’s Guide is designed to help Catholic school teachers, catechists, and youth ministers integrate issues of justice and poverty into their Lenten curriculum.
| Educator’s Guide | English | Spanish | ||
| Country Stories | English | Spanish | ||
| Country Stories for Younger Students | English | Spanish | ||
| Lesson Plans, Grades 1-3 | English | Spanish | ||
| Lesson Plans, Grades 4-6 | English | Spanish | ||
| Lesson Plans, Grades 7-8 | English | Spanish | ||
| Lesson Plans, Grades 9-12 | English | Spanish | ||
| Bonus Ethiopia Lesson Plans, Grades 1-12 | English | Spanish | ||
| Bonus High School Resources | English | Spanish |
The Lenten Calendar contains personal stories from beneficiaries of Catholic Relief Services’ overseas programs, Lenten reflections and activities, and recipes of simple meat-less meals from different countries.
| Lenten Calendar | English | Spanish |
The Community and Parish Guide includes suggestions and resources to integrate Operation Rice Bowl into your parish gatherings and services.
| Community and Parish Guide | English | Spanish | ||
| How to Organize Operation Rice Bowl | English | Spanish |
Activities
| Activity Suggestions | English | Spanish | ||
| Prayer Service | English | Spanish | ||
| Stations of the Cross | English | Spanish | ||
| Placemat | English | Spanish | ||
| World Awareness Quiz | English | Spanish | ||
| Seven Sorrows of Mary | Spanish |
Invite your parish’s youth minister to hold a Food Fast this Lent. Food Fast is Catholic Relief Services’ 24-hour awareness program for Catholic youth. Focusing on global poverty and hunger, Food Fast offers a journey of solidarity with our brothers and sisters overseas, as a way of living out our Catholic faith. Learn more at foodfast.org.
