Lent, 2010

"He fasted for forty days and forty nights,
and afterwards he was hungry" (Mt 4,1-2)

Lenten resources from the Vatican website including Papal Message for Lent 2010

Holy Week from the Vatican Website

Archdiocesan Website

• Prayer and Faith Resources

St. Louis Review online

• Archbishop Carlson's pastoral letter on Lent from the Catholic Review

Lenten regulations:

Then to all Christ said, "Whoever wishes to be my follower must deny his very self, take up his cross each day, and follow in my steps" (Luke 9:23).

The Church has always helped us fulfill these words of Jesus by prescribing very definite penance for all Catholics.   Accordingly, the Pope and the Amercican bishops have outlined obligatory fast and abstinence as follows:

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of abstinence for all Catholics over the age of 14.  On these two days, fast as well as abstinence is also obligatory for those from the ages of 18 to 59.  Abstinence means abstinence from meat.  Fast means one full meal a day, with two smaller meals and nothing between meals (liquids are permitted).   No Catholic will lightly excuse himself or herself from this obligation.

All other Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat.  Here again, Catholics will not hold themselves lightly excused, but if there is a serious healtth problem, this obligation would not apply.

Lenten recipes

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops website

• Interactive calendar for Daily readings from the New American Bible

American Catholic

• Sitemap
• Seasonal features, Lent: Call to Conversion, with daily updates and reflections, activities for families, Lenten calendar
• Lenten meditations Day-by-Day

Passionist website

• Meditations and prayers for Lent and Easter
• History of the Stations of the Cross
• Praying the Stations of the Cross
• Stations of the Cross for children and their families.
• Heart Prayer for Lent for children and their families

Stations of the Cross with Music

Catholic Culture.org -- Living the Catholic Life

• Lenten workshop

Catholic Online homepage

• Catholic Life
  • Lent
  • History of Ash wednesday
  • Stations of the Cross,

EWTN - Global Catholic Network

• Stations of the Cross written by Mother Angelica
• Daily Reflections for Lent

New Advent with links to many Catholic online resources

• History of the way of the Cross from Catholic Encyclopedia.com

Sunday Gospels of Lent (we are in year C for the Sunday cycle and Year 2 for the Weekday cycle.