LENT - A SEASON OF GRACE The Paschal Season is central to our identity as Catholics. The attentive observation of Lent through prayer, fasting, penance and almsgiving is an important part of our preparation for the joy of Easter.
Listed below is our liturgical schedule for Lent. Also, there are some helpful suggestions for prayer and fasting. Our almsgiving project this Lent will be “Operation Rice Bowl”. You will find this year, additional weekly opportunities to pray the Stations of the Cross with our School children, and weekly Adoration each Tuesday during Lent.
We invite you to participate as fully as you can in our Lenten Liturgies.
LENTEN SCHEDULE 2010
STATIONS OF THE CROSS 
The three major spiritual disciplines of Lent are prayer, abstinence/
fasting and almsgiving. During Lent opportunities for prayer are provided for individuals to deepen their relationship with God. Through the practice of praying the Stations of the Cross, the faithful are led to a deeper understanding of and solidarity with the suffering of Jesus - we open ourselvesfurther to the Word of God and the movement of the Spirit: through abstinence and fasting we seek solidarity with those who do not have enough food and we empty ourselves for God: by giving alms we help to relieve the burdens of poverty born by so many. |
Fridays during Lent
at 2:15 and 7:00 p.m. The Living Stations: Friday, March 26
2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Presented by 8th grade students. The Living Stations: Good Friday at 12:00 noon
Presented by Servants of the Cross. ADORATION
St. Francis Chapel - located in the Parish Center
Tuesdays: February 23, March 2, 9, 16, 23,
from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 31, 9:00 a.m. through
Thursday, April 1 - 12:00 Midnight.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Lenten Penance Service - March 16
7:00 p.m. with individual confessions.
Individual Confessions
Saturdays: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 30, 6:00 - 6:45 p.m.
Wednesday, March 31, 5:00 - 5:45 p.m.
(No confession on Holy Saturday). |
 Lenten Evenings of Reflection
Offered by Fr. Mark Huberty
Tuesday, March 23rd & Tuesday, March 30th
at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Church
March 23: The Mass, the Pinnacle of Prayer
Fr. Mark will explore the rich meaning of the Mass by going through each of its various parts and describing their spiritual significance for us as Catholics, offering a new and fresh perspective into the many words and actions and symbols that can get lost to us by mere routine. Give new life to the most important thing you do all week!
March 30: Reflections on the Priesthood in the Year of the Priest
Fr. Mark will offer some new insights into what the ministerial priesthood is all about and how the whole Church can participate by better understanding the priesthood, by working with priests in the mission of the Church, and by promoting vocations to the priesthood. The evening will conclude with a viewing of an inspiring 18-miniute film, “Fishers of Men,” produced by the Secretariat for Vocations and Priestly Formation of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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