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From Fr. Mark 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. Just a few short weeks ago, we celebrated his birth, and now the Church begins our preparation to join him on his journey to Calvary. The church scene becomes somber, more intense, and such terms as contrition, conversion, penance, almsgiving, fasting and abstinence dominate...

Saturday, March 7: Sts. Perpetua and Felicity 4:00pm, Reconciliation-St. Liborious 5:00pm, Mass-St. Liborious 6:00pm, Mother/Son Game Night-Holy Childhood School Sunday, March 8: Third Sunday of Lent 8:00am, Mass-St. Liborious 10:00am, Mass-Holy Childhood Monday, March 9: Memorial-St. Francis of Rome No mass scheduled 6:00pm CIR Ministry-Holy Childhood 6:00pm, SVDP-Holy Childhood Tuesday, March 10: Lenten Weekday 8:00am, Mass-Holy Childhood 8:45am, Adoration-Holy Childhood...

From Fr. Mark 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...