Lent 2010

Ash Wednesday Schedule

6:30 am Mass

8:30 am Mass

12:00 pm Liturgy of the Word

5:30 pm Mass

7:00 pm Liturgy of the Word

Ashes will be distributed at all liturgies

Evening Prayer

Sundays at 7 pm in the Chapel House

Stations of the Cross

Fridays at 7 pm

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Wednesdays (beginning 2/24) 7 pm

Saturdays 4 pm & 7:30 pm

Praying with Poetry

Msgr. Flood will give some guidance to a Lenten group on “Praying with Poetry.” The meetings will be in the Chapel House on Sundays at 7:30 pm, beginning February 21, the First Sunday of Lent.. Please contact the rectory if you plan to attend the series, so we can have sufficient materials ready.

Lenten Series

You are invited to participate in Care for Creation = Conversion of Heart

a five part weekly Ecumenical Lenten Series that will be offered at Saint Luke the Evangelist Church Chapel House, beginning on Thursday, February 18, 2010 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Sister Mary Elizabeth Clark, SSJ, director of the Sisters of Saint Joseph Earth Center will be the facilitator. Cost $25.00 for series. To register, send check made to Sisters of Saint Joseph, % S.S.J. Earth Center, 9701 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19118. For info contact 215-248-7225 or mclark@ssjphila.org.

Liturgy of the Hours

This year we are encouraging you to pray Morning Prayer and/or Evening Prayer (two of the ‘hours’) during Lent. We can lend you a Shorter Christian Prayer book for Lent. (Pick one up at the rectory.) Or you can get the hours online at www.universalis.com or www.ebreviary.com

Family Conversations

Take a few moments each week as a family to read, reflect upon, and talk about the Sunday readings. Use the reflections to start a family conversation centered around God’s Word. Encourage family members to share other questions or comments based on the readings. Through these conversations your family is being led by the Holy Spirit to break open God’s Word.

Key to the Conversations
Gospel Highlight: God’s living and active Word

Key Idea: Reflection on a central idea in the readings

Take 30 (Seconds): A pause to reflect or pray in silence

Share: A time for each family member to share

Pray: A suggested moment for prayer

Online resources

Liturgy of the Hours http://www.universalis.com

Sacred Space http://www.jesuit.ie/prayer

Online Retreat http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/cmo-retreat.html

Reflection Program

Beginning February 16, Sanctuary, a sacred music ensemble at Villanova, Pa., will host a web-based reflection program for the season of Lent with musical selections from their album Passion and reflective comments from Augustinian friar, Shawn Tracy, OSA at www.sanctuary.villanova.edu.

The program consists of twenty-one episodes each lasting about five minutes in duration. The listener may choose one or more of the selections as a way to meditate on the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. This “Seedcast” will be available the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday and new episodes will be added on each Wednesday during Lent.

Fast and Abstinence and Other Acts of Penance for Lent 2010

The Bishops of the United States prescribe, as minimal obligation, that all persons who are fourteen years of age and older are bound to abstain from eating meat on Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2010, on all the Fridays of Lent and Good Friday. Further, all persons eighteen years of age and older, up to and including their fifty-ninth birthday, are bound to fast by limiting themselves to a single full meal on Ash Wednesday and on Good Friday, while the other two meals on those days are to be light.

All the faithful are encouraged, when possible, to participate at Mass and to receive the Holy Eucharist daily, to celebrate frequently the Sacrament of Penance, to undertake spiritual reading, especially the study of the Sacred Scriptures, and to participate in parish Lenten devotions as well as Lenten education programs. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is especially recommended.

All are encouraged to participate in “Operation Rice Bowl,” which has aided countless hungry persons here in the Archdiocese as well as throughout our nation and our world.

Special Note: Because the Feast of Saint Joseph will be on a Friday in Lent this year, the obligation to abstain from meat does not bind on the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Friday, March 19, 2010.