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Facts About Lent
Lenten Resources Online
Lenten Retreats Online
Lenten Prayers and Devotions Online
Selected Lenten Reading Online

Lenten Resources


Facts About Lent

Questions About Lent (American Catholic)
Facts About Lent (Catholics Online)
History of Lent (Catholic Education Resource Center)
Lent: Forty Days of Prayer and Fasting (The Prayer Foundation)
Lenten Music (Catholic Education Resource Center)
Practices for Lent (Explorefaith.com)
Principles and Guidelines for Lenten Devotions and Liturgy (Congregation for Divine Worship)
Principles and Guidelines for Holy Week Devotions and Liturgy (Congregation for
Divine Worship)
"Your Guide to Lent" (Our Sunday Visitor 2008)

Lenten Resources Online

Resources from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Lent--A Call to Conversion (St. Anthony Messenger Press)
Weekly Reflections from Operation Rice Bowl
Lenten Recipes from Operation Rice Bowl
Fr. Ron Rolheiser's Lenten columns
"The Death of Jesus" on-line mini-course
Lenten Resources from Explorefaith.com
Lenten Resources from Loyola Press
Holy Week Resources from Loyola Press
Easter Resources from Loyola Press

Lenten Resources from Bread for the World
Lenten Resources from PaxChristiUSA
Lenten Resources from the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales

Lenten Retreats Online

"Practicing Spirituality with Jesus" (Spirituality and Practice)
"The Cry of the Prophet" with Sr. Joan Chittister OSB (Spirituality and Practice)
"Falling in Love with Creation" with Fr. Richard Rohr OFM

"Forgiveness--Growth in Love" (Spirituality and Practice)
Lenten Retreat with Fr. Larry Gillick SJ (audio)
Lenten Spiritual Renewal Retreat (Everyday Faith)
"Lenten Toolbox" (Explorefaith.com)
Practicing Spirituality with Ed Hays (Practicing Spirituality)
"Seven Weeks for the Soul" (Loyola Press)
Weekly "Radio Retreat" (audio)

Womens' Online Lenten Retreat (Loyola Press)
Sacred Space Lenten Retreat

Lenten Prayers and Devotions Online

Daily Mass Readings (text) (audio) (video)
Fr. Benedict Groeshel's Daily Lenten Meditation (audio/MP3 Format)
Daily Reflection (Explorefaith.com)
"Eight Ways to Pray During Lent" (Loyola Press)
Kenyan Way of the Cross (Trocaire)
Meditations and Prayers for Lent and Holy Week.  Victor Hoagland
Meditation on the Seven Last Words of Jesus (Loyola Press)

A Guide to Journaling Through Lent (Explorefaith.com)
"A Lenten Toolbox" (Explorefaith.com)

"Praying with Art Lenten Reflection" Karen Sue Smith (America Magazine)
"Angels of the Passion" Video reflection (Beliefnet)
"Bitter Journey--Way of the Cross Meditation" (Beliefnet)
"Heart Prayer During Lent" (Passionist Missionaries)
Pope John Paul II's Stations of the Cross (USCCB)
"Church Fathers Lenten Reading Plan" (Ancient and Future Catholics)
Pray-As-You-Go Stations of the Cross (Jesuit Media Initiatives)
Praying Lent 2010 (Creighton University Campus Ministry)
Stations of the Cross: "I Am There" (American Catholic)
Stations of the Cross.  Mother Mary Angelica (EWTN)
Stations of the Cross of Nonviolent Love (Center for Christian Nonviolence)
Way of the Cross (CatholicIreland)
Way of the Cross (Trocaire)
Way of the Cross in Jerusalem (Franciscans of the Holy Land)
Way of the Cross at the Roman Colosseum 2005 (meditations by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger)
Way of the Cross at the Roman Colosseum 2007 (meditations by Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi)
"Way of the Cross in Your Neighborhood" (American Catholic)
Way of the Cross for Children (The Claretians)
Weekly Reflections by Sr. Joyce Rupp (National Catholic Reporter)

Selected Lenten Reading Online

General Lenten Themes
Pope Benedict XV's Lenten Message (2010)
Pope Benedict XV's Ash Wednesday homily (2010)
"Almsgiving"  Margaret Silf  (America Magazine)
"
Ash Wednesday--Our Shifting Understanding of Lent" Lawrence E. Mick
 (Catholic Update)
"Ashes" Fr. Tobi Tondi  (America Magazine)
"Ashes to Ashes"  Jennifer Woodward Tait
(ChristianHistory.net)
"Between Yesterday and Tomorrow" Margaret Silf  (America Magazine)
"
Day by Day Through Lent--Fasting from Our Clutter" Susan Rowland 
 (Catholic Update)
"Fasting--A Fresh Look" Thomas Ryan CSP  (America Magazine)
"Forty Days to a New You" (I)
"Forty Days to a New You" (II)
(U.S. Catholic)
"
How Shall I Fast?" Mark E. Thibedeaux SJ  (Catholic Update)
"In the Belly of Lent--Jonah and Us" James Phillips (St. Anthony Messenger)

"Lean Into Lent" Tom McGrath  (U.S. Catholic)
"Lent--A Time to Review Your Life"  Michael Daley
(Youth Update)
"Lent, Day by Day" Alice Camille (Catholic Update)
"Lent--More Than Penance" Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk (American Catholic)
"Lent" from The Liturgical Year. Dom Prosper Gueranger
, Abbot of Solesmes
Lenten and Easter Reflections 2009  (America Magazine)
"
Lenten Customs--Baptism Is the Key
" Lawrence E. Mick  (Catholic Update)
"Make Your Own Exodus This Lent. Michael Daley.
(Youth Update)
"Ordinary Things, Sacred Meaning" Jeanne Hunt  (Catholic Update)
"Origins of the Way of the Cross
"
"A Personalist Lent" John F. Kavanaugh SJ  (American Magazine)
"Plunge Into Lent" Lisa Calderone-Stewart
(U.S. Catholic)
"Praying with Lenten Scripture--Day by Day" Christopher M. Bellitto
 (Catholic Update)
"Repentance" John F. Kavanaugh SJ (America Magazine)

"The Saving Death and Resurrection of Christ"
 (United States Catholic Catechism for Adults)
"The Stations of the Cross"  Victor Hoagland CP (Passionist Missionaries)
"
Ten Ways to Put New Life Into Lent" Tom McGrath (U.S. Catholic)
"Thirsting for Light and Life" John R. Donohue (America Magazine)
"Three Ways to Get Into Spiritual Shape This Lent" Robert Barron (U.S. Catholic)
"25 Things You Can Do for Lent"
"Via Dolorosa"--A Cancer Victim's Reflections on the Way of the Cross
 (U.S. Catholic)

"Why Catholics Fast" Carole Garibaldi Rogers
(America Magazine)
"
Who Killed Jesus?
" Daniel J. Harrington SJ (Scripture from Scratch)

Holy Week/Triduum
"
Agony in the Garden--Understanding the Passion of Jesus" Ronald Rolheiser
 (Catholic Update)
"Bitter Journey--Way of the Cross/multi-media presentation
(Beliefnet)
"
The Death of Jesus and Anti-Semitism" Raymond E. Brown SS (Catholic Update)
"The Death of Jesus Then and Now" Daniel J. Harrington SJ
 (Jesus--A Historical Portrait)

"
A Doctor's Good Friday Reflections" Charles Hattemer SJ
 (St. Anthony Messenger Press)
"Eighteen Questions About the Paschal Triduum"
(U.S. Conference of Bishops)
"
From Passover to Eucharist
" Lawrence E. Mick (Catholic Update)
"Holy Saturday" Gerald O'Collins SJ (The Tablet)
"Holy Week--A Time Apart for Renewal" (Loyola Press)

"
The Last Supper--A Picture Worth a Thousand Words" Barbara Reid OP
  (Scripture from Scratch)
"The Lord's Supper" Thomas Richstatter OFM
(Eucharist--Jesus With Us)
"Meditating on the Passion of Jesus" Victor Hoagland CP (Passionist Missionaries)
Meditations and Readings on the Cross of Jesus
Meditations on the Passion and Death of Jesus
"My God, My God--Why Have You Forsaken Me?" Michael D. Guinan OFM
 (St. Anthony Messenger Press)
"The Paschal Mystery" Fr. Daniel Harrington SJ (America Magazine)
"
The Passion of Jesus" Ronald D. Witherup SS (Scripture from Scratch)
"The Passion of Jesus Christ" Donald Senior CP (Passionist Publications)
"
The Passion Narratives" Carol Leubering (Scripture from Scratch)
"The Sacrifice of Good Friday" Thomas Richstatter OFM (Eucharist--

  Jesus With Us)
"This Is Not About You--Thoughts for Good Friday" Robin Koning SJ
  (Jesuit Publications)

"Three Holy Days" (Nativity Church, Longwood Florida)
"Your Guide to Holy Week" (Our Sunday Visitor 2008)

Easter
"Easter--The Story of Jesus' Resurrection/Max Lucado (Beliefnet)
"Easter--Our Allelujah of Salvation" (Our Sunday Visitor)

"The Greatest Sign--Resurrection" Daniel Harrington SJ (America Magazine)
Meditations and Readings on the Resurrection
"Nine Ways to Live the Resurrection." Theresa Borchard. (Beliefnet)
"The Resurrection: High Point of History" Daniel J. Harrington SJ
 (Jesus--A Historical Portrait)

"
The Resurrection of Jesus
" John Navone SJ (Scripture from Scratch)
"Stations of Light" (Via Lucis)  Ann Ball (Our Sunday Visitor)

Resources compiled by Dave Cushing

Posted 01.05.10  Last Update: 02.27.10

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