During the season of Lent, fill your home with the sacred hymns and chants of our Catholic Faith!
We are pleased to offer a collection of sacred hymns and chants, performed by Giorgio Navarini and Elizabeth Krestyn for Mother of Divine Grace School. Listen to the hymns for Lent and Holy Week, or listen to the full album.
The printed hymnal to accompany the recordings can be purchased from our bookstore. It includes the sheet music and lyrics for the hymns, as well as lyrics and translations of the Latin chants.
Incorporating this sacred music into your homeschool will provide a beautiful atmosphere for your homeschool day and will introduce your children to the richness of our Catholic faith and of the Lenten season in particular.
Here are some ideas for how to share this music with your children and help them enter into the season of Lent.
- Play our Lenten playlist and other great Lenten music in the background throughout your homeschool day or during quiet reading time.
- Pick one hymn or chant to learn and sing it with your children at Morning Prayer or whenever you start your homeschool day. When that hymn is mastered, move on to the next one. (Start with just one verse and sing it multiple times in a row to help solidify learning. If singing is not in your toolbox, play the first verse of the hymn several times over and try singing along with your children.)
- Memorize the hymns and chants as poems. Buy the printed hymnal and have your children memorize the lyrics as they would a poem. Let each child pick one piece and spend Lent memorizing the verses.
“Love of beauty is an asset in all of life, and no one can love what he does not know. Take time to include the beautiful in your curriculum, so that your child will ‘praise beautiful things and take delight in them and receive them into his soul to foster its growth and become himself beautiful and good.’ (Plato’s Republic)"
- MODG Founder Laura Berquist
We hope these Lenten hymns help you and your children enter more deeply into the Lenten season. God bless you!
The Mother of Divine Grace School Staff
