ASH WEDNESDAY

Okay, Team… here we go – Lent!

Ash Wednesday Masses are as follows:

1. 6:30 am

2. 8:30 am

3. 12 Noon

4. 7:00 pm

Ashes will be distributed at all Masses… for a few thoughts on the distribution of Ashes, read what our friend Jimmy Akin has to say on this unique day of the year.

Remember: Ash Wednesday is a day of both fasting and abstinence.  If you aren't sure what “fasting and abstinence” means… click here.  For a spiritual reflection on fasting, read through this little article.

As we prepare for Lent, I encourage all of you to read Pope Francis’ Lenten Message.  

I also encourage you to be deliberate, write down your plan, about how you will fast, pray, and give alms this lent.  Perhaps it will be as simple as: fast – No Candy, not even chocolate; pray – I will attend the Stations of the Cross each week, or pray them on my own on Friday, and go to the Sacrament of Confession twice between now and Holy Thursday; almsgiving – every week will give $10, from my own money earned this year, to the Church in the tan colored “St. Vincent de Paul Society” envelopes… This is obviously just an example, to get the ideas moving, take it or leave it but I do strongly encourage you to enter into Lent with a plan, a detailed and written plan.

Let’s remember to keep one another in prayer, that this Lent each of us will become a better Christian through our Lenten discipline and the goodness of God!

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world!

Fr. Wilke