Ash Wednesday, February 17
Masses/Ashes
7:30am, Noon, 5:00 & 7:00pm
Reservations will need to be made for all 4 masses.
You can make reservations up to 3 hours prior.
Due to Covid restrictions, the distribution of ashes will take place according to special diocesan guidelines.
Stations of the Cross
All Fridays in Lent (Except Good Friday) 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26
Stations will begin at 7pm
Reservations need to be made a minimum of 30 minutes prior to Stations.
NO Booklets for Stations will be provided but you may print your own here,
please be sure to bring it home with you.
Lenten Regulations
- Everyone 14 years of age or over is bound to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent.
- All from the age of 18 years up to the beginning of their 60th year are bound to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
- On these two days of fast and abstinence, only one full meatless meal is allowed. Two other meatless meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to each one’s needs, but together they should not equal another full meal. Eating between meals is not permitted on these two days, but liquids, including milk and fruit juices are allowed. When health or ability to work would be seriously affected, the law does not oblige.
- To disregard completely the law of fast and abstinence is sinful.
- Lent is the principal season of penance in the Church year. Therefore, all of the faithful are strongly urged to develop and follow a program of voluntary self-denial. All Catholics are encouraged to support generously the charitable works of the whole Church, pray and perform works of charity and mercy.
- Those who are sick, pregnant, or nursing, or whose health would adversely be affected by fasting or abstinence, should not consider themselves bound by these norms.