Lent with the Saints is a forty-episode series of Lenten reflections for children aged 5-8. Host Kiley Lawrence invites children to “walk through Lent” in a prayerful, imaginative journey with Jesus and the saints. From Monday through Saturday throughout Lent, each episode features a Lenten reflection to help children grow in understanding and faith, a fully dramatized saint story, and a short practical daily resolution for our child listeners. Parents, teachers and catechists will find this an invaluable resource for accompanying children through the Lenten season, helping them to experience Lent as a prayerful, fun and joyful journey towards Easter!

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🗺️ Saint Augustine - Episode Two: The Head and the Heart

Carthage. 373 A.D. Two years after leaving Thagaste, Augustine revels in the decadent pleasures of his new home. His unexpected meeting with Aurora leads him further astray. But when the writings of Cicero and Virgil arouse his deep longing for beauty and truth, he finds himself questioning everything! Including his wayward life.

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🚦 Rating: 7+

Saint Augustine teaches us lessons of humility, perseverance, and the transformative power of grace. Despite his early years spent in sensual pursuits and intellectual pride, his restless heart yearned for truth. His mother’s unwavering prayers and his own searching spirit ultimately led him to surrender in humility to God’s call. In his moment of conversion, Augustine’s story reminds us that no soul is beyond redemption and that true wisdom begins in humility before God.

This series contains moments of intensity and fear. Augustine struggles with his passionate nature and against carnal pleasures. He is depicted in a non-Christian relationship, with their child. A gladiator fight can be overheard. Voices are raised in argument. A character dies of illness. A boy is separated from his mother. A government persecution of the church is portrayed.

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🗺️ Saint Augustine - Episode One: The Thrill of Evil

North Africa. 370 A.D. The Roman city of Thagaste is home to a remarkable but restless sixteen year old boy. Torn between his intense desires and his brilliant mind, he has become a slave to his passions. His mother prays for his conversion, but can making bad choices and getting into trouble ever be a pathway to God? This is the story of Augustine.

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🚦 Rating: 7+

Saint Augustine teaches us lessons of humility, perseverance, and the transformative power of grace. Despite his early years spent in sensual pursuits and intellectual pride, his restless heart yearned for truth. His mother’s unwavering prayers and his own searching spirit ultimately led him to surrender in humility to God’s call. In his moment of conversion, Augustine’s story reminds us that no soul is beyond redemption and that true wisdom begins in humility before God.

This series contains moments of intensity and fear. Augustine struggles with his passionate nature and against carnal pleasures. He is depicted in a non-Christian relationship, with their child. A gladiator fight can be overheard. Voices are raised in argument. A character dies of illness. A boy is separated from his mother. A government persecution of the church is portrayed.

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🗺️ Augustus Tolton - Episode Five: We've Been Waitin'

Quincy, 1879. Rejected by every seminary he's applied to, Gus has lost direction and hope. His friends are beginning to wonder: will Gus ever fulfill his calling?

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In a culture that has abandoned God, families struggle to find beautiful, faith-affirming stories to inspire their children. The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week!

🚦 Rating: 7+

Augustus Tolton is a model of perseverance and fortitude. He suffers through prejudice, poverty, and repeated rejection, but he never abandons his faith. Through it all, he pursues his vocational calling to the priesthood. He is charitable and compassionate to all he meets, offering a friendly ear to anyone who needs it.

This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. A brief scene depicts young Augustus and his mother fleeing slavery, pursued by men with guns and hounds. Augustus endures racism and racial injustice, including multiple rejections from seminaries, a mentor’s collapse into alcoholism, and his own spiritual despair. He works in degrading conditions at a saloon and a factory. Characters argue over justice, and a priest is found unconscious from drinking.

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🗺️ Augustus Tolton - Episode Four: Abandoned By My Own

Quincy, 1878. Gus is thriving at Saint Francis College. He excels in his studies, and is a standout on the debate team. But despite these successes, Gus continues to receive rejection after rejection from seminaries all over the world. Soon, there will be no more seminaries left to apply to. Gus always believed God was calling him to the priesthood - but what seminary will accept him?

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In a culture that has abandoned God, families struggle to find beautiful, faith-affirming stories to inspire their children. The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week!

🚦 Rating: 7+

Augustus Tolton is a model of perseverance and fortitude. He suffers through prejudice, poverty, and repeated rejection, but he never abandons his faith. Through it all, he pursues his vocational calling to the priesthood. He is charitable and compassionate to all he meets, offering a friendly ear to anyone who needs it.

This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. A brief scene depicts young Augustus and his mother fleeing slavery, pursued by men with guns and hounds. Augustus endures racism and racial injustice, including multiple rejections from seminaries, a mentor’s collapse into alcoholism, and his own spiritual despair. He works in degrading conditions at a saloon and a factory. Characters argue over justice, and a priest is found unconscious from drinking.

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🗺️ Augustus Tolton - Episode Three: Free Slaves

Missouri, 1876. A year into his studies in Saint Louis, things look bleak for Gus. Father Dolan is acting strangely, often disappearing with no explanation. Gus is working as the barman at a local saloon where he witnesses things no young Christian man should see. If he’s ever going to reach the seminary, something will have to change soon.

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In a culture that has abandoned God, families struggle to find beautiful, faith-affirming stories to inspire their children. The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week!

🚦 Rating: 7+

Augustus Tolton is a model of perseverance and fortitude. He suffers through prejudice, poverty, and repeated rejection, but he never abandons his faith. Through it all, he pursues his vocational calling to the priesthood. He is charitable and compassionate to all he meets, offering a friendly ear to anyone who needs it.

This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. A brief scene depicts young Augustus and his mother fleeing slavery, pursued by men with guns and hounds. Augustus endures racism and racial injustice, including multiple rejections from seminaries, a mentor’s collapse into alcoholism, and his own spiritual despair. He works in degrading conditions at a saloon and a factory. Characters argue over justice, and a priest is found unconscious from drinking.

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🗺️ Augustus Tolton - Episode Two: Do This

Quincy, Illinois. 1869. Gus excels as a student at St. Peter's, championed by Father McGirr. But outside the school, the mostly white community boils with tension, harasses Gus for the color of his skin, threatens Father McGirr with violence, and jeopardizes Gus's future at the school. In the face of such threats and turmoil, Gus begins to wonder: how can he be called to change men's hearts, when their hearts are full of hatred toward him?

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In a culture that has abandoned God, families struggle to find beautiful, faith-affirming stories to inspire their children. The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week!

🚦 Rating: 7+

Augustus Tolton is a model of perseverance and fortitude. He suffers through prejudice, poverty, and repeated rejection, but he never abandons his faith. Through it all, he pursues his vocational calling to the priesthood. He is charitable and compassionate to all he meets, offering a friendly ear to anyone who needs it.

This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. A brief scene depicts young Augustus and his mother fleeing slavery, pursued by men with guns and hounds. Augustus endures racism and racial injustice, including multiple rejections from seminaries, a mentor’s collapse into alcoholism, and his own spiritual despair. He works in degrading conditions at a saloon and a factory. Characters argue over justice, and a priest is found unconscious from drinking.

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🗺️ Augustus Tolton - Episode One: You Gotta Be Free

Missouri, 1861. As a Civil War rages between the Northern and Southern states, tens of thousands of enslaved black men escape bondage to join the Union Army and fight for freedom. Among them is Peter Paul Tolton, whose young son will be forever changed by his father’s sacrifice. This is the story of the first African-American Catholic priest, Father Augustus Tolton.

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In a culture that has abandoned God, families struggle to find beautiful, faith-affirming stories to inspire their children. The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage provides thrilling and inspiring stories to ignite your family’s pursuit of virtue and holiness. Join us for a new 5-Episode adventure every week!

🚦 Rating: 7+

Augustus Tolton is a model of perseverance and fortitude. He suffers through prejudice, poverty, and repeated rejection, but he never abandons his faith. Through it all, he pursues his vocational calling to the priesthood. He is charitable and compassionate to all he meets, offering a friendly ear to anyone who needs it.

This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. A brief scene depicts young Augustus and his mother fleeing slavery, pursued by men with guns and hounds. Augustus endures racism and racial injustice, including multiple rejections from seminaries, a mentor’s collapse into alcoholism, and his own spiritual despair. He works in degrading conditions at a saloon and a factory. Characters argue over justice, and a priest is found unconscious from drinking.

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