Opportunities to Spark your 2024 Lenten Journey
What are you doing for Lent this year?
It’s a tired question. Maybe your kid asked you over dinner, or a friend in passing shared their game-plan for the most organized Lent ever. Maybe you just don’t have an answer yet. That’s why we’ve collected all the upcoming ways you can pray, fast, and give alms this Lent at the Co-Cathedral. But your Lenten journey isn’t just about checking the yearly box or making the priest happy. Your journey is about seeking God and inviting Jesus’ presence into your everyday life. Scroll through the options below and spark your Lent today.
Prayer
For Everyone:
Mass (see Mass Schedule) - Mass is every day during Lent, including Fridays!
Confession: Thursdays at 11:30am; Saturdays at 3:30pm
For Adults:
Personal Reflection (Books are available at the Parish until gone):
Lent Reflection Book - Not by Bread Alone
The Ascension Lenten Companion: Walking with Jesus to Jerusalem by Fr. Mark Toups: Join our email group for weekly videos. Accompanying books are available for a suggested donation of $10
Lent 2024: it’s time to refresh.
In a world filled with personal and structural sin that allows injustice to grow, we are invited to refresh our souls and our imaginations to make space for the Spirit to work through us...During the Lenten season, Psalm 23 reminds us of God’s intent that we find times of refreshing: Beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul. St. Ignatius of Loyola refers to these times of refreshing as consolations: a deep-seated sense of God’s presence leading to spiritual growth.
How are we being refreshed and consoled in our lives, in our Church, and in our work for justice?
Throughout Lent, writers from the Ignatian network will guide us in a season of refreshing. Join us each day to be replenished, reinvigorated, and refreshed.
Group Opportunities:
Discernment Series (5 weeks) - Tuesday PM or Wednesday AM; REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
Bishop Barron Mystery of God Study (Wednesdays at 6pm)
Reflections on Lent and Easter through Art (Thursdays in Lent)
Pilgrimage Reflection event (February 18th)
For Kids:
Family Mass Materials Library on the cart in the Fellowship Area, including our subscription to MagnifiKid, a weekly Mass guide for kids ages 6-12
Lent Calendar Coloring Page from The Catholic Kid
Brother Francis: Let’s Learn About Lent - Ten minute video
Drawing Closer to God - Video Series
Fast
from the News
from social media
from TV shows
from meat on Fridays - Rice Bowl Challenge
from music
try the Heroic Minute
from snacking
“Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.”
Serve/Almsgiving
Volunteer at Channel One
Volunteer in Liturgical Ministries or other parish ministries
Volunteer with Jeremiah Program
Mercy Sundays in the bulletin each week
Give to special collections
Participate in the Catholic Ministries Appeal 2024
Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl Collection (boxes located in the Fellowship area)
Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Wish-Lists:
Give to a charitable nonprofit organization