Lent 2025
Preparing Our Hearts, A Time of Reflection
Lent is a season of the church in which we are called to examine our spiritual lives and re-commit to our lifelong journey with Jesus. It is also a time of growth in anticipation of the great joy that awaits us at Easter.
To enhance your Lenten experience, we are pleased to offer complimentary Prayer Stampita and Palaspas. The Prayer Stampita will aid in your prayerful reflections, and the Palaspas will help you commemorate Palm Sunday. Scroll below to learn more about these offerings. May this Lenten season be a time of profound spiritual exploration and enrichment for you as we prepare for the celebration of Easter.
Prayer Stampita
Lent fosters introspection and spiritual renewal. Our Prayer Stampita, a reflective prayer to the Holy Spirit, offers a focused path for contemplation. Through this prayer, see how the Spirit illuminates daily life, transforming moments into deep spiritual connections. Use this prayer as a guide this lent season.
Palaspas
Palm Sunday heralds a key Lenten moment, recalling Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. Our blessed Palaspas embody this day, blending the joy of welcome with the solemn path ahead. Carry your Palaspas in Palm Sunday services and display it at home. Let it remind you of Christ’s sacrifice, the promise of resurrection, and Easter’s core hope.
Understanding Lent
Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It’s a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection at Easter. During Lent, we seek the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scripture; we serve by giving alms; and we practice self-control through fasting. We are called not only to abstain from luxuries during Lent, but to a true inner conversion of heart as we seek to follow Christ’s will more faithfully. We recall the waters of baptism in which we were also baptized into Christ’s death, died to sin and evil, and began new life in Christ.
Many know of the tradition of abstaining from meat on Fridays during Lent, but we are also called to practice self-discipline and fast in other ways throughout the season. Contemplate the meaning and origins of the Lenten fasting tradition in this reflection. In addition, the giving of alms is one way to share God’s gifts—not only through the distribution of money, but through the sharing of our time and talents. As St. John Chrysostom reminds us: “Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2446).
In Lent, the baptized are called to renew their baptismal commitment as others prepare to be baptized through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, a period of learning and discernment for individuals who have declared their desire to become Catholics.
Source: https://www.usccb.org/prayer-worship/liturgical-year/lent