Calendar of EventsMarch 22: 4th Sunday of Lent - 10 am Livestream Mass
March 25: Lent Reconciliation Service and Evening of Reflection
March 29: 5th Sunday of Lent April 5: Palm/Passion Sunday Lenten Piano Meditations
Kyrie - Joncas
All is Holy - Cotter
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April 9: Holy Thursday
April 10: Good Friday
April 11: Holy Saturday
April 12: Easter Sunday
Our Lent 180 series presents three short, contemporary reflections on the ancient spiritual practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Hosted by Kate Anderson, music by Mark Scozzafave.
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Lenten Resources from the Old St. Pat's Green Team
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What are your giving up for Lent? How about plastics? Catholics traditionally make fasting part of their Lenten practice, and commit to “giving something up” for Lent. Sometimes we give up a food, like candy or chocolate, or a practice, like watching a favorite TV show, in the hopes of sharpening our spiritual attention during the Lenten season. Michigan Interfaith Power and Light, a non-profit with the mission to inspire and equip people of faith to deepen their stewardship and love of creation, has created a Lenten calendar which connects sustainability and faith with plastic consumption. Each day of the calendar recommends ways we can reduce or eliminate our individual use of plastic; advocate for societal change in how we treat plastics; and grow our awareness of how plastics burden low income communities and our planet’s ecosystems. Follow the link below to access the calendar, and learn the many ways you can fast from plastics during and after Lent. Click the button above to visit the Michigan Interfaith Power & Light website to learn more about the Lenten plastic fast.
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Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns has produced a Lenten Reflections Guide that offers ways we can begin the process of “ecological conversion” envisioned by Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato Si. Each week in Lent, the Guide offers thought provoking commentary on that Sunday’s readings, questions for reflection and self-analysis, a creation care oriented prayer, and related action steps. The Guide includes in-depth resources about specific problems, like water use and sustainable farming. Spend 30 minutes per week with the Guide, and you will emerge from Lent with a clearer vision of our relationship to each other, to our world, and to God; and a better understanding of the ways all these things need healing.
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