Ash Wednesday 2024

Not a Holy Day.

Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins this Wednesday. During this period of preparation 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 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 new life in Christ.