Journey Lent with St. 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. We seek the Lord in prayer during Lent by reading Sacred Scripture; we serve by giving alms and practicing 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 more faithfully. We recall the waters of baptism in which we were also baptized into Christ's death, died to sin and evil, and began a new life in Christ.

 

Many know of the tradition of abstaining from meat on Fridays during Lent, but we are also called to practice self-discipline and fast in other ways throughout the season. Contemplate the meaning and origins of the Lenten fasting tradition in this reflection. In addition, the giving of alms is one way to share God's gifts—not only through the distribution of money but also through sharing our time and talents. As St. John Chrysostom reminds us: "Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2446).

 

In Lent, the baptized are called to renew their baptismal commitment as others prepare to be baptized through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, a period of learning and discernment for individuals who have declared their desire to become Catholics.

7:00 pm | Stations of the Cross [Inside the Church]

Feb 24: Knights of Columbus

March 3: Lenten Youth 

March 10: Guadalupanas 

March 17: Deacon Charlie 

March 24: Youth Confirmation & RCIA 

March 31: Hospitality and Environment Committee

 

4:30 pm | Confessions (Multiple priests available)

5:30 pm | March 19, 2023

 

Morning Prayer: 8:30 am

Stations of the Cross led by the School: 11am

Mass of the Lord's Supper: 7:00 pm

 

Morning Prayer: 8:30 am

Liturgy of the Lord's Passion: 1:00 pm

Stations of the Cross at 7pm

 

Morning Prayer: 8:30 am

Church open for silent prayer: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Confessions: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Easter Vigil Mass: 8 pm

 

Masses: 8:00 am, 10 am, 12:00 pm (Español)