Lenten Season 2025 at St. Bartholomew

Start your first Lenten (meatless) Friday with your parish family and enjoy a delicious fish dinner hosted by the Knights of Columbus. Join us on the following Fridays of Lent for Soup and Fellowship (and a 10-minute reflection) with Fr. Mark. Stations of the Cross will be held every Friday in the church. All are welcome!
 

Lent gives us a new opportunity to be more serious about our personal conversion to Christ, more serious about becoming the people that God wants us to be." - Los Angeles Archbishop Gomez

:: Fridays in Lent

MARCH 14   
Lenten Soup & Fellowship
Stations of the Mystery of the Cross with Fr. Mark, 7:00 pm in the church

MARCH 21
Lenten Soup & Fellowship
Stations for Healing with Fr. Mark, 7:00 pm in the church

MARCH 28   
Lenten Soup & Fellowship
Stations for Hope with Fr. Mark, 7:00 pm in the church

APRIL 4   
Lenten Soup & Fellowship
Living Stations with Middle School & Teen Confirmation Candidates, 7:00 pm in the church

:: Food Gift Cards for the Needy 

Lent is about prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. As a form of almsgiving during this season, we invite you to bring food or grocery gift cards for the poor that will be distributed to those in need. 

These gift cards should be placed in the empty basket near the cross at the foot of the altar. Let us join in solidarity with our needy brothers and sisters and ask God to strengthen our hearts in mercy and compassion for those who suffer.

Relationship with God grown stale? Plagued by a particular sin you just can’t shake? Tired of the day-to-day grind of your life? This Lent, experience deeper peace and healing through Ascension's Lent program. The Ascension Lenten Companion: Walking with Jesus to Jerusalem, features 5-minute weekly videos with Fr. Mark Toups to help your community enter more deeply into the beautiful and penitential Lent season, find peace, and let God heal the parts of their hearts that need it most. Click here for videos.

• What is Lent?
• Daily Inspiration for Your Lenten Journey
• Examination of Conscience based on the Ten Commandments
• Living the Faith: 10 Things to Remember During Lent
• Why is Lent 40 Days?

Did You Know?

• Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory days of fasting and abstinence for Catholics.

• Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of abstinence (no meat).

• The obligation to fast applies to Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59.

• When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal that day. Two smaller meals may also be taken. No food should be eaten between meals.

• The obligation to abstain from meat is binding on Catholics age 14 and older.

• Abstinence regulations state that meat comes from animals such as chickens and all birds, cows, sheep or pigs—all of which live on the land.

• Abstinence from meat juices and liquid foods made from meat, such as chicken broth, consommé, soups cooked or flavored with meat, meat gravies or sauces, and condiments made from animal fat are technically not forbidden.

Source: usccb.org/What is Lent?