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Lent 2025: A Time for Conversion
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Prayer series
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Bp. Barron's Reflections
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Articles
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March 12
Every year, March 19 calls for the celebration of the Solemn Feast of Saint Joseph. It is the perfect day to relax our Lenten sacrificial offerings as a way of honoring the love and leadership of the spouse of Our Lady and foster father of Our Lord. Click the link above for ideas about how to celebrate!Read More -
March 7
Lent provides a chance to go deeper: both giving and giving up. Learning and praying together as a family enhances simpler meals. Lent coincides with lengthening days, enriching our patient waiting and preparing. Click for ideas to pray, eat, and work together.Read More -
February 27
Why does the priest sometimes wear green and sometimes white? What do the seasons of the Church have to do with our daily lives? All this and more in The Family Corner, a new feature where we’ll share ways to bring the liturgical seasons of the Church into our families and homes in simple, accessible, kid-friendly ways.Read More
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External Resources
- Best Lent Ever
- Word on Fire's Lenten Reflections (or see above left)
- Archdiocesan Lenten resources
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The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. Lent is the season of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. During this six-week period, we prepare to celebrate the Paschal Mystery: the passion, death, and resurrection of Our Lord.
All are encouraged to prepare their hearts and minds during the season of Lent by joining in prayer and participating in the liturgical and communal prayer experiences offered by the parish during this most holy season. -
Penitential Regulations
- Abstinence – Catholics 14 years of age and older must abstain from eating meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all the Fridays of Lent.
- Fasting– Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59 (inclusive) are required to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
- On these days one full meal is allowed. Food may be taken at two other times during the day, in order to maintain strength according to each one’s needs, but together they should not equal another full meal. Eating between meals is not permitted. Liquids, including milk and fruit juices, are allowed.
- Penance– Each weekday of Lent (with the exception of solemnities, namely St. Joseph Day on March 19 and the feast of the Annunciation on March 25) is also an obligatory day of penance to be marked by prayer and increased devotion to spiritual practices.
- Some recommendations are daily Mass, Adoration, increased personal prayer time or spiritual study, self-imposed fasting or abstinence, works of charity, almsgiving, Stations of the Cross, the Rosary, retreats, and especially the sacrament of Reconciliation.
— From ArchSPM.org
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2025 Liturgies & Events
Ash Wednesday
March 5, 2024
Ashes are a symbol of penance made sacramental by the blessing of the Church. The words of the blessing — “Remember, you are dust, and unto dust you will return”
— help us to develop a spirit of humility and sacrifice.
(Abstinence and Fasting — see above)
Masses:
7:00 AM,
8:15 AM, 5:00 PM
Stations
of the CrossLed by a priest or deacon every Friday during Lent
(March 7 - April 11, 2025).Following the 5:00 PM Mass (~5:30 PM) Senior citizens are invited to two
opportunities for Stations with the school children
at on March 21 and April 4.2:00 PM Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, April 18, 2025
12pm
Fish Fry
Sponsored by the Nativity Men's Club
Friday, March 28 and Friday, April 11
Dine-in in the school cafeteria,
drive-up at garage on Wellesley Ave.
5:00-8:00 PM
Palm Sunday
April 12-13, 2025Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week.
At this liturgy, we recreate and celebrate
Christ's messianic entrance into Jerusalem.
Palms will be distributed and blessed at all Masses.Masses:
Usual Sunday schedule
Penance Service
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
All parishioners are invited and encouraged to attend our Lenten Penance Service in the main upper church.
Several visting priests (usually 10-12) will hear private confessions and help us prepare our hearts for the passion, death and Resurrection of Our Lord, Jesus Christ.7:00 PM Extra Confession times will also be offered during Holy Week for those unable to attend the Penance Service (above). Click here for more information. Sacred Triduum
Thursday-Sunday, April 17-20, 2025Click here for liturgy schedule and
information for the Sacred Triduum
