Lent 2021

Welcome to the 40 day journey that is the Lenten Season!

What is Lent all about?  


Resources for  Lent

There are many ways for one to grow closer to God in faith.  Check out some of these resources:

Virtual Retreats

An Audio Retreat:


We have all just come through a year like no other in living memory, and now we have arrived in a new year, carrying all the hopes and dreams of a new beginning, but also the many fears and troubles of the year just passed. The season of Lent gives us a heaven-sent opportunity to reflect prayerfully on our recent experience and the difficulties and the possibilities it has set before us. 

Growing Back Better



The eight-week schedule makes it perfectly timed as a Lent and Easter retreat.  To get started visit HERE

In addition for Lent 2021, Jean Heaton, author of Helping Families Recover from Addiction, will offer weekly reflections based on themes of the retreat. Look for her posts here.


The Arts


Enjoy a visual prayer experience this Lent. Each week includes a video commentary about a work of art inspired by the Sunday Scriptures and an accompanying reflection.  Arts & Faith: Lent


Read


In his book Lenten Meditations: Growing in Friendship with God, William A. Barry, SJ, writes:

Lent is a great time to give God a chance to convince you of his desire for your friendship. Traditionally Lent has been a time of engaging in practices of penance or prayer that will ready us to experience, more and more deeply, the almost unbelievable love and generosity of God toward us wayward human beings.
 
Posts will appear every Wednesday, beginning Ash Wednesday, February 17th at Friendship with God

Apps for  Daily Prayer



Available on Google Play and the App Store

For more suggestions of prayer apps visit:




Family Activities


These activities are grounded in the symbols, Scripture readings, devotions, and traditions of the Lenten season. Check this calendar each day to find another Lenten activity that you can adapt for your own setting.  

For more ideas and activities for families visit 

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