Lent 2025

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 more faithfully.

ASH WEDNESDAY March 5
8:00 AM Mass
12:00 PM Mass 
4:30 PM Adoration and Confession
5:30 PM Mass

WEEKEND MASS:
Saturday:   4:30 pm Vigil Mass
Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:30 AM,  7:00 PM

WEEKDAY MASS AND DEVOTIONALS:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 
Rosary 7:30 AM
Mass 8:00 AM
Wednesdays: 
Confession/Adoration 4:30 PM
Mass 5:30  PM

First Friday Adoration: 
8:30 am - 6:00 PM

CONFESSION:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 7:30 AM
Wednesdays 4:30  PM
Saturdays 3:30 PM

STATIONS OF THE CROSS:  
Fridays: 8:30 AM  
Anytime - Independently

Penance Service March 27 6:00 p.m. 

What are the upcoming dates for Lent?

Why do we say that there are forty days of Lent? When you count all the days from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday, there are 46.

So does that mean that when we give something up for Lent, such as candy, we can have it on Sundays?

I understand that all the Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat, but I'm not sure what is classified as meat. Does meat include chicken and dairy products?

I've noticed that restaurants and grocery stores advertise specials on expensive types of fish and seafood on Fridays during Lent. Some of my Catholic friends take advantage of these deals, but somehow I don't feel right treating myself to this

I understand that Catholics ages 18 to 59 should fast on Ash Wednesday and on Good Friday, but what exactly are the rules for these fasts?

Are there exemptions other than for age from the requirement to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday?