PRAYING LENT An Online Ministry of Creighton University: 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.
THE DEATH OF DEATH Easter isn’t celebrating a one-time miracle as if it only happened in the body of Jesus and we’re all here to cheer for Jesus.
FINDING GOD IN THE MESS Join in a special Lenten read-along with Loyola Press. We’ll be reading Finding God in the Mess: Meditations for Mindful Living at a relaxed pace that will give us time to savor what we read during the weeks of Lent.
MAKE LENT 2020 YOUR BEST EVER A Lot Can Happen in 40 Days... A totally free and totally awesome daily Lenten video program sent straight to your email!
THE SEASON OF LENT From Ken Collins: Lent is a season of soul-searching and repentance. It is a season for reflection and taking stock.
RADICAL HOPE - LENT 2020 Join the Ignatian family each day during Lent 2020 at the hope-filled intersection of faith and justice.
5 PRAYERS FOR THE LENT SEASON The Lent season is all about focusing our heart on the true source of joy - Jesus Christ. Use these Lenten Prayers to remember what Easter is all about.
RESOURCES FOR LENT Ignatian contemplation and reflective prayer encourage us in the season of Lent. Below we highlight Ignatian resources for Lent.
LENT & EASTER - FRANCISCAN MEDIA Lent is upon us, a time of prayer, reflection, and unity with God. But sometimes we miss important aspects of this holy season while we are in the midst of it.
FIVE APPS FOR LENT As well as using the app for prayer requests, you can also use it as a prayer journal that records your own spiritual journey through Lent...
SEVEN KEY WORDS FOR LENT Seven key terms from the Catechism of the Catholic Church that help us to revisit and delve more deeply into the gift of Lent.
THE HOPE OF LENT While the Lenten season is indeed preparation for our Easter celebration, the hope of this season is that we will find our lives transformed by the many ways we encounter God’s Word...
8 WAYS TO PRAY DURING LENT There are as many ways to pray as there are pray-ers in this world, but a few prayer methods can help us in particular to spiritually prepare ourselves during Lent.
40 WAYS TO GET MORE OUT OF LENT Lent is supposed to be a season of a successful journey through the desert of penance to a new land and a new, deeper intimacy with God. But often, we find ourselves falling back on the same old pathways.
LENT, UNPLUGGED In a time of digital consumption, here’s how the church can lead the way on healthy media fasting.
LETTING THIS LENT BE GOD’S What if this Lent we didn’t approach the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting with an eye to what we can do to transform ourselves, but rather with an eye to what God wants to do in order to transform us?
40 LENTEN LESSONS ON THE MASS Receive a Lenten Lesson in your email inbox each day. Deepen your faith this Lent with these lessons on the Eucharist and the Holy Mass— the source and summit of our faith.
LENT WITH THE SAINTS Daily inspiration during this season of repentance, forgiveness, and hope. Connect and pray with the Church's most beloved saints and holy people
LENT: WHY THE CHRISTIAN MUST DENY HIMSELF By fasting a person turns to God more intently. This is reflected in God’s words spoken through the Prophet Joel: “Return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
EXODUS AND THE PASCHAL JOURNEY OF LENT Lent is about the people of God being on the march, out of Egypt and into the Promised Land. And this journey we make together is a matter of life and death
NO NEED TO BE CROSS ABOUT LENT Catholics are trying to move from Lent as a penitential season to Lent as a baptismal season — that is, a season that focuses on a refreshment of the Christian commitment which is rooted in baptism.
ARTS & FAITH: LENT The visual prayer experience of Arts & Faith: Lent continues through Holy Week with videos for Palm Sunday and the Triduum.
THE LANGUAGE OF THE CROSS Joseph A. Tetlow, SJ, explores the idea that Jesus’ Passion brings us to embrace the world as it really is.
LENT RESOURCES Lent is a season of repentance and renewal. We turn away from our sinfulness and recommit ourselves to following Jesus. Ignatian contemplation and reflective prayer encourage us in the season of Lent. Here you will find Ignatian resources for Lent.
WALKING THROUGH LENT WITH ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI The season of Lent was one of sacrifice and introspection for St. Francis. As our guide through this holy season, he is inviting us to do the same. To receive daily Lenten meditations inspired by St. Francis of Assisi, sign up here.
SOUL SEEING FOR LENT Each column is a spiritual reflection on the beauty that hides behind appearances and the peace that is beyond all understanding.
LENTEN VULNERABILITY Some of us are in desperate need of receiving mercy and justice, some of us are in desperate need of experiencing want. Jesus was ministered by the angels in the desert - our Lenten journey needs both.
SLOW LENT In the Sunday Gospels throughout Lent, we find Jesus in a number of environments: deserts, mountaintops, temples and towns. Each place plays an important part in Jesus’ journey. These reflections invite people to spend contemplative time with Jesus in each of these places, not just on Sunday but for an entire week.
THE SACRED SILENCE OF LENT Everything depends on our own dependence on God. And we cannot learn anything about that dependence by thinking and plotting and planning — by huffing and puffing. We need to open our hearts. We need to be quiet.
WHO IS SACRIFICED, AND WHO BENEFITS? The reality of health and economic disparity COVID has exposed “is worth pondering as Holy Week approaches...as Christians seek redemption in the short lifespan of a first-century man who lacked social or economic privilege.”
THE POLITICS OF THE PASSION It may be that the actions and words of Jesus in Holy Week in fact tell us something about the necessary—and salutary—tension between political life and religious identity.
CELEBRATE LENT WITH PADRE PIO Join others this Lent with meditations, prayers, and words of comfort from Padre Pio himself, delivered right to your inbox. Begins on Ash Wednesday, March 2.
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR LENT 2022 Lent invites us to conversion, to a change in mindset, so that life’s truth and beauty may be found not so much in possessing as in giving, not so much in accumulating as in sowing and sharing goodness.
PERPETUAL LENT If Church leaders and institutions wish to lead us in our Lenten spiritual journey, it is imperative that they unequivocally acknowledge the seriousness of the times and the horrors the pandemic has wrought.
WELCOME, LENT For Catholics, Lent is a sure part of the rhythm of life. The sacred season comes around every year, like an old friend who visits, without fail. We are challenged to live each Lent with a true readiness to change, to embrace each Lent as precious and potentially exceptional.
YOUNG JESUITS OFFER ADVICE FOR LENT "What are you giving up for Lent this year?" It's a standard question, but maybe not the best one. We hope their insight will help you think deeply about your Lenten practices this year.
LENTEN CONVERSIONS “Turn away from sin and believe in the Gospel.” These words remind the baptized that Christian conversion involves both an ongoing rejection of a sinful life and also a fuller embrace of the Gospel.
MEDITATE ON ‘UBI CARITAS’ THIS LENT As we approach Holy Week and look forward to the promise of Easter joy, we may look back on the last month or so and reflect on how the Lord has been present to us this Lent.
HOW TO DO HOLY WEEK How can we maintain some realm of holy quiet? How to “do” Holy Week, especially if we will not be participating in all the special church liturgies at this time? Here are just a few suggestions.
A GUIDE TO A TRANSFORMATIVE HOLY WEEK The prayers and rituals of Holy Week are particularly formative and transformative if we allow them to be.Let the rituals of Holy Week guide your heart toward God.
A HOLY WEEK MEDITATION WITH LEAL’S PIETÀ Face-to-face with the historical life and death of Jesus, who died a common criminal, whose life terminated in a crumpled heap indistinguishable from so many broken bodies before and after his.
FINDING GOD IN THE CHAOS Daily email reflections throughout the Lenten season dealing with the story of hope, of justice, of God’s presence in a chaotic, broken world.
Why Catholics need Ash Wednesday Lent is not about "doing something positive," We need to practice the self-emptying that Jesus modeled. We Catholic Christians love Lent because we need it.
LET'S MAKE THE BEATITUDES OUR GUIDE FOR LENT American Catholics all deeply hunger for unifying, sacramental, even mystical experiences that can reveal the sweetness of the Gospel, the Word that makes a difference in our lives.
VIRTUAL SIT MEDITATIONS FOR LENT Join the
Center for Action and Contemplation online contemplative community for a free series of Virtual Sit Meditations broadcast every Friday during Lent.
STAY HERE WITH ME Rebecca Ruiz places herself in the Scripture passage the night Jesus prayed in Gethsemane.
LENT AT THE VATICAN MUSEUMS Every Friday during Lent, the Pope's Museums offer a unique, thematic itinerary, ranging from sarcophagi to the art of Caravaggio and Michelangelo, to meditate...
VIA CRUCIS The Way of the Cross is full of lessons for the life of any disciple. The question of why suffering exists finds its answer in Christ’s transformation of suffering through love. Christ’s cross makes sense of our own.