Life in the Sacraments - Holy Communion
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Lent
Lent is the liturgical season of forty days which begins with Ash Wednesday and ends on the celebration of the Paschal Mystery (Easter Triduum).
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Lent is primarily a penitential season in the Church's liturgical year, reflecting the forty days Jesus spent in the desert in fasting and prayer.
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"The seasons and days of penance in the course of the liturgical year (Lent, and each Friday of the year in memory of the death of Our Lord), are intense moments of the Church's penitential practice. These times are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting, almsgiving, and fraternal sharing (charitable and missionary works)." CCC1438
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Stations of the Cross are prayed each Friday in Lent at 7:00pm.
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Ash Wednesday February 14
Laetare Sunday March 10
Palm Sunday April 24
Holy Thursday of the Lord's Supper March 28
Good Friday of the Lord's Passion March 29
Easter Vigil, Holy Night of Easter March 30
Easter Sunday March 31
* Unless otherwise noted, all text is taken in whole or part from the Catechism of the Catholic Church Glossary ©2000