Lent
🍞"Lent is a preparation for the celebration of Easter. For the Lenten liturgy disposes both catechumens and the faithful to celebrate the paschal mystery: catechumens, through the several stages of Christian initiation; the faithful, through reminders of their own baptism and through penitential practices.
🍞Lent runs from Ash Wednesday until the Mass of the Lord's Supper exclusive.
🍞The Alleluia is not used from the beginning of Lent until the Easter Vigil.
🍞On Ash Wednesday, a universal day of fast, [14] ashes are distributed.
🍞The Sundays of this season are called the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sundays of Lent. The Sixth Sunday, which marks the beginning of Holy Week, is called Passion Sunday (Palm Sunday).
🍞Holy Week has as its purpose the remembrance of Christ's passion, beginning with his Messianic entrance into Jerusalem.
🍞At the chrism Mass on Holy Thursday morning the bishop, concelebrating Mass with his body of priests, blesses the oils and consecrates the chrism."
Info from this site: https://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDWLITYR.HTM
🍞"Lent is a preparation for the celebration of Easter. For the Lenten liturgy disposes both catechumens and the faithful to celebrate the paschal mystery: catechumens, through the several stages of Christian initiation; the faithful, through reminders of their own baptism and through penitential practices.
🍞Lent runs from Ash Wednesday until the Mass of the Lord's Supper exclusive.
🍞The Alleluia is not used from the beginning of Lent until the Easter Vigil.
🍞On Ash Wednesday, a universal day of fast, [14] ashes are distributed.
🍞The Sundays of this season are called the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sundays of Lent. The Sixth Sunday, which marks the beginning of Holy Week, is called Passion Sunday (Palm Sunday).
🍞Holy Week has as its purpose the remembrance of Christ's passion, beginning with his Messianic entrance into Jerusalem.
🍞At the chrism Mass on Holy Thursday morning the bishop, concelebrating Mass with his body of priests, blesses the oils and consecrates the chrism."
Info from this site: https://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDWLITYR.HTM
Prayers and Devotions
🗯"What is Prayer? -Descriptions of prayer are abundant throughout Christian history. "True prayer," wrote St. Augustine, "is nothing but love." Prayer should arise from the heart. "Prayer," said St. John Vianney, "is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.""Everyone of us needs half an hour of prayer each day," remarked St. Francis de Sales, "except when we are busy—then we need an hour." Definitions of prayer are important, but insufficient. There is a huge difference between knowing about prayer and praying. On this issue, the Rule of St. Benedict is clear, "If a man wants to pray, let him go and pray."
St. John Damascene gave a classic definition of prayer: "Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God" (CCC, no. 2559, citing St. John Damascene, De Fide Orth. 3, 24). The Catechism clearly defines prayer as a "vital and personal relationship with the living and true God" (CCC, no. 2558). Prayer is Christian "insofar as it is communion with Christ" (CCC, no. 2565), and a "covenant relationship between God and man in Christ" (CCC, no. 2564).
🗯Devotions - Genuine forms of popular piety, expressed in a multitude of different ways, derives from the faith and, therefore, must be valued and promoted. Such authentic expressions of popular piety are not at odds with the centrality of the Sacred Liturgy. Rather, in promoting the faith of the people, who regard popular piety as a natural religious expression, they predispose the people for the celebration of the Sacred Mysteries"
Info from this site: http://www.usccb.org/lent/
Prayers
❇️Litany of the Most Precious Blood
http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/litanies/litany-of-the-most-precious-blood.cfm
"Litany of the Most Precious Blood focuses on the real presence of Jesus Christ in the precious Blood. It can be prayed on the Feast of Corpus Christi or any Eucharistic feast"
❇️Saint John of the Cross
"O blessed Jesus, give me stillness of soul in You. Let your mighty calmness reign in me. Rule me, O King of Gentleness, King of Peace"
❇️Scriptural Rosary: The Sorrowful Mysteries
http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/rosaries/scriptural-rosary-the-sorrowful-mysteries.cfm
❇️Daily Divine Office
Link: http://divineoffice.org/?date=20160210
Devotional Practices
❇️ Stations Of The Cross
Audio Stations of the Cross
http://wwwmigrate.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/stations-of-the-cross/upload/stationsofthecross.mp3
The Stations of the Cross began as the practice of pious pilgrims to Jerusalem who would retrace the final journey of Jesus Christ to Calvary. Later, for the many who wanted to pass along the same route, but could not make the trip to Jerusalem, a practice developed that eventually took the form of the fourteen stations currently found in almost every church. Similarly, the 150 Hail Marys that were recited for the rosary were an adaptation of the medieval monastic practice of reciting the 150 psalms in the Psalter.
❇️ Lenten Audio Retreat
Retreat with Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. - Year C
Link to retreat: http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/AudioRetreat/Gillick-Lent-2007/Gillick-Lent-2007.html
Schedule here
1st Wk of Lent - Week of Feb. 10Introductory Conference
2nd Wk of Lent - Week of Feb. 17Conference 2 & 3
3rd Wk of Lent - Week of Feb. 24Conferences 4 & 5
4th Wk of Lent - Week of March 2Conference 6
5th Wk of Lent - Week of March 9Conferences 7 & 8
HOLY WEEK - Week of March 16Conferences 9 & 10
EASTER WEEK - Week of March 23Conference 11
❇️ Book: "What Jesus Saw from the Cross", by Fr. A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.
Link to a free PDF copy: http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/books/Sertillanges--Jesus_Cross.pdf
❇️Spend the Lent and Easter Season with EWTN
http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/
🗯"What is Prayer? -Descriptions of prayer are abundant throughout Christian history. "True prayer," wrote St. Augustine, "is nothing but love." Prayer should arise from the heart. "Prayer," said St. John Vianney, "is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.""Everyone of us needs half an hour of prayer each day," remarked St. Francis de Sales, "except when we are busy—then we need an hour." Definitions of prayer are important, but insufficient. There is a huge difference between knowing about prayer and praying. On this issue, the Rule of St. Benedict is clear, "If a man wants to pray, let him go and pray."
St. John Damascene gave a classic definition of prayer: "Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God" (CCC, no. 2559, citing St. John Damascene, De Fide Orth. 3, 24). The Catechism clearly defines prayer as a "vital and personal relationship with the living and true God" (CCC, no. 2558). Prayer is Christian "insofar as it is communion with Christ" (CCC, no. 2565), and a "covenant relationship between God and man in Christ" (CCC, no. 2564).
🗯Devotions - Genuine forms of popular piety, expressed in a multitude of different ways, derives from the faith and, therefore, must be valued and promoted. Such authentic expressions of popular piety are not at odds with the centrality of the Sacred Liturgy. Rather, in promoting the faith of the people, who regard popular piety as a natural religious expression, they predispose the people for the celebration of the Sacred Mysteries"
Info from this site: http://www.usccb.org/lent/
Prayers
❇️Litany of the Most Precious Blood
http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/litanies/litany-of-the-most-precious-blood.cfm
"Litany of the Most Precious Blood focuses on the real presence of Jesus Christ in the precious Blood. It can be prayed on the Feast of Corpus Christi or any Eucharistic feast"
❇️Saint John of the Cross
"O blessed Jesus, give me stillness of soul in You. Let your mighty calmness reign in me. Rule me, O King of Gentleness, King of Peace"
❇️Scriptural Rosary: The Sorrowful Mysteries
http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/rosaries/scriptural-rosary-the-sorrowful-mysteries.cfm
❇️Daily Divine Office
Link: http://divineoffice.org/?date=20160210
Devotional Practices
❇️ Stations Of The Cross
Audio Stations of the Cross
http://wwwmigrate.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/stations-of-the-cross/upload/stationsofthecross.mp3
The Stations of the Cross began as the practice of pious pilgrims to Jerusalem who would retrace the final journey of Jesus Christ to Calvary. Later, for the many who wanted to pass along the same route, but could not make the trip to Jerusalem, a practice developed that eventually took the form of the fourteen stations currently found in almost every church. Similarly, the 150 Hail Marys that were recited for the rosary were an adaptation of the medieval monastic practice of reciting the 150 psalms in the Psalter.
❇️ Lenten Audio Retreat
Retreat with Fr. Larry Gillick, S.J. - Year C
Link to retreat: http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/AudioRetreat/Gillick-Lent-2007/Gillick-Lent-2007.html
Schedule here
1st Wk of Lent - Week of Feb. 10Introductory Conference
2nd Wk of Lent - Week of Feb. 17Conference 2 & 3
3rd Wk of Lent - Week of Feb. 24Conferences 4 & 5
4th Wk of Lent - Week of March 2Conference 6
5th Wk of Lent - Week of March 9Conferences 7 & 8
HOLY WEEK - Week of March 16Conferences 9 & 10
EASTER WEEK - Week of March 23Conference 11
❇️ Book: "What Jesus Saw from the Cross", by Fr. A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.
Link to a free PDF copy: http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/books/Sertillanges--Jesus_Cross.pdf
❇️Spend the Lent and Easter Season with EWTN
http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/