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Parish Lenten Mission

February 26-28, 2012

This Year’s Theme: “Life In Abundance”

Fr. John Cusick will lead this year’s Lenten Mission as we consider the question, “What does it mean to be fully alive?”

You are invited to spend one hour each day for three sessions and focus on Christ’s call and invitation to us. Through preaching, prayer and song we will connect with Christ’s presence among us, seek some insights and inspiration offered us in the Gospels. Then we will return to where we live and work and bring Christ to others by the very actions of our lives.

• February 26 at 3:00 p.m.

  Session 1: Blessed Are you! Do You Believe That?

• February 27 at 7:30 p.m.

  Session 2: How Do We Get Free to be Fully Alive?

• February 28 at 7:30 p.m.

  Session 3: A Strategy to Keep God’s Dream Alive

Lent, February 22 - April 6

A Season of Grace

Lent is an important time in the life of the Church. It is a time for the entire community to lend support, through prayer and encouragement, to those men and women preparing to enter the church at the Easter Vigil. Lent is also a time for spiritual renewal, repentance, and strengthening our connection to Christ. In our lives we have too many missed opportunities. Don’t let this Lent pass you by; prayerfully ask the Holy Spirit to show you how you are to spend these forty days.

- Fr. Tom Hickey

Lenten Traditions

The traditional disciplines of Lent are Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving. Consider some of these suggestions to help you keep the season holy.

Prayer

Daily Mass: Monday through Saturday at 6:30 and 8:30 a.m.

Stations of the Cross: Every Friday during Lent at 2:00 p.m. in the church. Our school children will be in attendance, but the entire parish is invited.

Eucharistic Devotion: Every Friday in Our Lady’s Chapel from 9:00 a.m. until 3:50 p.m.

Lenten Black Books: Commit yourself to praying at least six minutes every day with the Lenten Books the parish makes available. These little books provide a simple structure to lead us into prayer.

Fasting

The Church requires all those between 18 – 59 years of age to fast on Ash Wednesday(3/9/11) and on Good Friday (4/22/11). Catholics age 14 and older are also to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and on all the Fridays of Lent.

Fasting is a way of breaking our dependence on things that can take us away from God. Traditionally people have fasted from sweets, but we might consider fasting from food, drink, shopping, texting, or spending time on the Internet. This switch in focus frees us to serve God and our neighbor.

Almsgiving/Service

Service takes us out of our self-preoccupation, and it helps us experience faith in action. Our parish offers many opportunities to make a difference and grow in awareness of the needs of the poor. Visit our Service Opportunities Page where you will find many opportunities for service.