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Sunday, February 1, 2026

February (and Lent) Radiant Roundup

Happy February! We welcome in the month of the Holy Family during this short chunk of Ordinary Time and then Lent begins on February 18th. Here are some resources to enrich your home or classroom this month. Resources with a * mean that they contain free printables (or shareable digital files).



Month of the Holy Family:




St. Josephine Bakhita: February 8th

St. Abigail (St. Gobnait): February 11th
St. Abigail coloring pages*


St. Valentine: February 14th
Saintly Friends Bingo Game*



Bl. Fra Angelico: February 18th

Ash Wednesday: February 18th
Find all Lent activities below!

The Chair of St. Peter: February 22nd

Click here for a list of great books for Catholic kids in February:





The Season of Lent: Begins February 18th
Stations of the Cross:
Lenten Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving:




And Stations of the Cross books for kids:


Looking Ahead: Holy Week & The Sacred Triduum
Holy Week Family Retreat & Journal* (In English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese)
This post has ideas for each day of Holy Week, including a printable journal and clickable links to activities and videos.


You can find the links to the monthly Radiant Roundups here:


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February (and Lent) Books for Catholic Kids


February Catholic Kids Book List
Below are a few favorite titles that fit well with devotions and feast days this month! This list contains Amazon Affiliate links, which means if you click through and make a purchase, I earn a small commission at no cost to you. I'd also love to encourage you to shop directly with the publisher or with your local bookshop, or try to request these at your local library! I'm sure I've missed some books that would be great for this month, so feel free to add your own recommendations in the comments! You can find my giant list of Catholic Kid Books by topic here.

The Month of the Holy Family
Saint Feast Days this Month
2/1- St. Brigid
2/8- St. Josephine Bakhita
2/10- St. Scholastica
2/11- Our Lady of Lourdes

2/14- St. Valentine

2/22- The Chair of St. Peter
Black History Month
A great opportunity to learn about Black American Catholics on the road to Sainthood!



The Season of Lent- Begins February 18th

Books for Lent

Books with Lenten Themes- Salvation History & Life of Jesus
(While not specifically about Lent, these books help tell the story of why Jesus came to save us)


Books for Praying the Stations of the Cross with Kids
If you'd like to plan ahead:

Holy Week Stories

Book Lists By Month:
Click on the images below for book lists organized by feast days and devotions for each month:
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Group Rosary Scripts- Help kids lead the Rosary themselves!

I vividly remember the first time that I was asked to lead a decade of the Rosary in a group. I'm a cradle Catholic, but went to public school. My family was faithful about Mass attendance and prayer before meals, but I didn't grow up participating in many of the prayer and liturgical traditions of our faith, so I've had a lot to learn as an adult! 

In college while with a group at the Newman Center, I was asked to lead a decade of the Rosary. Just a decade of the Rosary- no big deal. I had experience with public speaking, so I shouldn't have been nervous. I prayed the Rosary on my own, but hadn't ever led in a group. So I totally botched the whole thing up- I literally prayed the wrong Mystery (with confidence ;) ) and didn't know the prayers that came after the Hail Marys. Needless to say, I was a little embarrassed and now still prefer to have a reference in front of me when I'm leading the Rosary for a group!

And that brings me to the new resources I have for you in this post. As part of my teaching position, I help plan and lead our monthly Holy Hours and other prayer experiences for the school. We often pray the Rosary together, and I always have students take on as many roles as we are able. 

When asking a middle schooler to lead a decade of the Rosary, I was mindful of my embarrassing experience in college and have always had a guide to the Rosary available for them to reference or read off of. But your typical Rosary brochure or guide isn't an explicit narrative of the Rosary. You might have to flip back and forth between pages, read directions in a separate place than the prayers, and it certainly doesn't give guidance for leading the prayers in a group, especially the custom of the leader saying on part of the prayers and the congregation saying the second part.


So over the years, I've created a set of Group Rosary Guides that have explicit scripts for leading the Rosary out loud. These have been so helpful as I invite and encourage my students to be brave and lead a decade of the Rosary for our whole school Holy Hours.

I tried to make them easy to read with large font, use bold/italics to differentiate between what they are reading the group response, and include even the most basic lines (like the Sign of the Cross) explicitly typed out. They are paced out to have one part per page so it is easy to label with a student name on a post it note. I have all of mine printed and in a binder, and as my collection has grown it has been such a gift to just pull out the binder when I need it and be ready to go!


I'm sharing this with you as Google Docs instead of pdfs. That is intentional so that you can edit as needed for your students, school/parish customs, or for a particular theme or intention. Please remember that if you would like to edit, I cannot grant you edit access for the original file, as it will change it for everyone. Please either go to File>Make a Copy and edit in Google Docs, or go to File>Download>Microsoft Word to download and edit on your computer.

Here are basic guides for the four sets of Mysteries:

And here are some more specific guides fit for monthly devotions, certain themes, as well as included Gospels passages at the beginning of each Mystery:

I hope that these are helpful to teachers/youth leaders/parents as they guide kids to lead groups in prayer!

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