Catholic Campus Ministry Lent Schedule 

Ash Wednesday: February 22

12:45pm – Distribution of Ashes (no Mass)

5pm – Mass & Distribution of Ashes

(Ash Wednesday events in Gill Chapel)

Friday’s During Lent:

Stations of the Cross

5: 30 pm at Emmuas House

Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper: April 5

7pm in Gill Chapel

Good Friday Commemoration of Our Lord’s Passion: April 6

3pm in Gill Chapel

Easter Vigil: Saturday April 7

7: 30 pm  in Gill Chapel

Easter Masses: Sunday April 8

11am & 7pm Masses in Gill Chapel

Important Lenten Practices:

Days of Fast (one regular sized meal):

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday

Days of Abstinence (no meat is consumed):

All Friday’s in Lent

Recommended Lenten Practices:

Take something out of your life: the old pious custom is still encouraged where you give something up that you use with some frequency and you refrain from that for the entire season of Lent. This is a penitential practice where you give up something in your life to show that God is more important than other things that you care about. Fasting is strongly recommended in the Scriptures as a way of decreasing our dependency on the things of this world and increasing our dependency on God.

Add something to your life: Lent is a good time to add something spiritual to your life. Try committing to a set time of prayer each week or day, or commit to reading the Scriptures or praying the Rosary or some other form of prayer. This concept of adding time for spiritual practices allows us to increase the time we give to God and helps purify us of what separates us from Him. This is what Lent is all about: turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel