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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)
Questions and Answers About Lent (EWTN)
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

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)
"Lunchtime Examen" (Ignatian Spirituality)
"Pilgrimage with Jesus--Lent 2011" podcast (Ignatian Spirituality)
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 Lenten Journey 2011 (Catholic Ireland)
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)
Living Lent Daily Reflections 2011 (Loyola Press)
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)
Via Dolorosa (Beliefnet)
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 at the Roman Colosseum 2011 (meditations by Sr. Maria Rita Piccio)
"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 XVI's Lenten Message (2011)
Pope Benedict XVI's Ash Wednesday Catechesis (2011)
Pope Benedict XVI's Ash Wednesday homily (2010)
"Almsgiving"  Margaret Silf  (America Magazine)
"Alms Giving and Joy" (video) Fr. James Martin
(Loyola Press)
"
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)
"Eight Ways to Pray During Lent"
(Loyola Press)
"Fast Break--Stop Eating the World for Lent" Bryan Cones
(U.S. Catholic)
"Fasting--A Fresh Look" Thomas Ryan CSP  (America Magazine)
"Fasting and Abstinence" (video) Fr. Richard Leonard
(Loyola Press)
"Forgiveness and Lent" (video) Fr. Paul Countino
(Loyola Press)
Forty Days--or Forty-Six Days? (U.S. Catholic)
"Forty Days to a New You" (I)
"Forty Days to a New You" (II)
(U.S. Catholic)
"Having a Friendship with God This Lent (video) William Barry
(Loyola Press)
"
How Shall I Fast?" Mark E. Thibedeaux SJ  (Catholic Update)
"In the Belly of Lent--Jonah and Us" James Phillips (St. Anthony Messenger)

"Jumping on the Lenten Bandwagon" Vanessa Gonzalez Kraft (BustedHalo)
"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)
"A Lent That Matters" Carol Meyer (National Catholic Reporter)

"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)
"This Lent, Practice a Spirituality of Resistance" Fr. John Dear SJ
(National
  Catholic Reporter)
"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)
"Wondrous Encounters--Day-by-Day Through Lent 2011" Fr. Richard Rohr
 (Catholic Update)

Holy Week/Triduum
"
Agony in the Garden--Understanding the Passion of Jesus" Ronald Rolheiser
 (Catholic Update)
"The Art of Christ's Passion"
(Catholic Church of England and Wales)
"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)
"Freedom in the Midst of Suffering--The Meaning of the Passion  Paul Countino SJ
 (Loyola Press)
"
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 Language of the Cross" Joseph Tetlow SJ (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)
"The Lord's Supper--Ancient Story, New Beginning." Mark Greenberg
(Catholic Update)
"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)
Pope Benedict's Catechesis on the Triduum/2011 (Zenit News Service)
"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)
"Voices of the Passion"
(Thinking Faith)
"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)
The "Historical Imprint" of the Resurrection (Zenit News Service)
How the date for Easter is Chosen (Zenit News Service)
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: 04.21.11

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