Lent offers us all a very special opportunity to grow in our relationship with God and to deepen our commitment to a way of life, rooted in our baptism.  In our busy world, Lent provides us with an opportunity to reflect upon our patterns, to pray more deeply, experience sorrow for what we've done and failed to do, and to be generous to those in need. 

We offer resources here to assist our entry into this wonderful season, from our preparing to begin Lent to our preparing to celebrate the holy three days following Lent.

May Our Lord grant us all the graces we need and desire.

Use our QR Code in a bulletin:

Pope Francis' Lent Message 2025:
Let us journey together in hope.

How Come I Fear Lent?
Tom Shanahan, S.J.

Lent with All My Heart
Andy Alexander, S.J.

Remembering the Ashes
Andy Alexander, S.J.

Why Do I Make My Life So Busy?
Maureen McCann Waldron

Praying with Holy Thursday at Home this Year

Praying with Good Friday at Home

Praying with the Easter Vigil at Home

A Caregiver's Reflections on Lent
by Diane Jorgensen

Lenten Audio Retreats
- with Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J.

Lent Audio Retreat. - Year A - 2020/2023 readings

Lent Audio Retreat - Year B - 2018/2021 readings

Lent Audio Retreat - Year C - 2019/2022 readings

A Lenten Parish Retreat - two videos:

A Time for Healing and Hope - I
A Time for Healing and Hope - II

Make an Online Retreat each week of Lent

When time permits only one, brief prayer a day

Pope Francis invites believers to prepare to celebrate the paschal mystery with mind and heart renewed:

Fasting, that is, learning to change our attitude towards others and all of creation, turning away from the temptation to “devour” everything to satisfy our voracity and being ready to suffer for love, which can fill the emptiness of our hearts. Prayer, which teaches us to abandon idolatry and the self-sufficiency of our ego, and to acknowledge our need of the Lord and his mercy. Almsgiving, whereby we escape from the insanity of hoarding everything for ourselves in the illusory belief that we can secure a future that does not belong to us. And thus to rediscover the joy of God’s plan for creation and for each of us, which is to love him, our brothers and sisters, and the entire world, and to find in this love our true happiness.

Let us not allow this season of grace to pass in vain! Let us ask God to help us set out on a path of true conversion. Let us leave behind our selfishness and self-absorption, and turn to Jesus’ Pasch. Let us stand beside our brothers and sisters in need, sharing our spiritual and material goods with them. In this way, by concretely welcoming Christ’s victory over sin and death into our lives, we will also radiate its transforming power to all of creation.

- Pope Francis' 2019 Lenten Message

Lenten Audio Conversations:
Brief words about what's happening each week.
With text transcripts of the Conversations which can be shared with others.

Cooking Lent/Cocinando durante la Cuaresma
Recipes for Ash Wednesday,
all the Fridays of Lent and for Good Friday/Recetas para el Miércoles de Ceniza, todos los viernes de Cuaresma y para el Viernes Santo

What Can I Do Before Lent Begins? / ¿Qué puedo hacer antes de que comience la Cuaresma?

A Mardi Gras Prayer...

Why do we use Ashes on Ash Wednesday?
Beyond Chocolate: A Deeper Lent
Beginning My Lenten Patterns
What Is Fasting and Abstinence?
The Invitation of Lent
Choosing Lent, Acting Lent / Elegir la Cuaresma, Actuar la Cuaresma

Symbols in Our Home / Símbolos en nuestro hogar

Our Service for and with the Poor / Nuestro servicio para y con los pobres

Spring Cleaning for Freedom / Limpieza de primavera para la libertad

Family Conversion - Relationship Conversion / Conversión de Familia - Conversión de Relación

Realigning our Priorities / Realineando nuestras prioridades

Family Prayer / Oración familiar

Doing Lent As A Family / Haciendo la Cuaresma - Como una familia

Parish Resources For Lent

Lent Bulletin Messages

Deepening Our Lent:

Reconciliation and Healing / Reconciliación y Sanación

Returning to the Sacrament of Reconciliation

Forgiveness - by Luis Rodriguez, S.J.

Lent for the Older Brother/Sister
of the Prodigal Son/Daughter

Helping Little Children with Lent

Looking at Marriage in Lent

Lent as: Hearing the Cry of the Poor

The Midpoint of Lent

Online Stations of the Cross

The Good Friday Intercessions

Sorrowful Mysteries for
Alzheimer's Patients
From "Praying With Alzheimer's"

Using the Weekly Guides for Daily Prayer
during each week of Lent.

A Contemplation on the Woman at the Well
for the Third Sunday of Lent

A Contemplation on the Man Born Blind
for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

A Contemplation on the Raising of Lazarus
for the Fifth Sunday of Lent

Praying the Gospels of Weeks 3, 4, 5
Understanding the Scrutinies

A Contemplation on the Day after the Crucifixion of Jesus,
with the Mother of James and John

Reflecting on the Passion in John's Gospel