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Lent 2025
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Prayer | Fasting | Almsgiving
Lent is a season of transformation. A time when we're called to "go" and leave behind the ways we've fallen to the slavery of our sufferings and sin. And to embrace that Jesus' passion illuminates the way of how we are to live our own, knowing there is redemption on the other side of the cross.
Lent begins March 5, 2025, Ash Wednesday, and extends through Holy Week until Easter Sunday on April 20th. As part of an age-old practice, the church has called the faithful to fasting and abstinence during Lent to reorient our disposition to Jesus, the one for whom our being longs. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are both obligatory days of fasting and abstinence for Catholics. Additionally, all Friday's in Lent are days of abstinence.
“Fasting” refers to eating only one full meal and two smaller meals. which, combined, would not equal a single normal meal. “Abstinence” refers to not eating meat. All Catholics who have reached their 18th birthday and have not yet reached their 60th birthday are obligated to fast. Abstinence begins for all Catholics when they reach their 14th birthday. There is no age when the obligation to abstain from eating meat stops. Catholics are required to practice abstinence from meat as long as health permits.
While a Catholic is not bound to fast on the other days of Lent, the Church strongly encourages voluntary acts of penance and self-denial of some kind during Lent.
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Begins Palm Sunday: April 13, 2025
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