Teen Lent Retreat 2012

The season of Lent happens in spring for a reason. Christians prepare to celebrate Jesus' death and resurrection to new life at the same time the trees are budding out and tulips burst into color. Nature's coming to life encourages our own coming to life. Spring helps us remember the promise of Jesus' new life.

Lent is a season for more than giving up candy. Lent is 40 days long to give us time to practice new skills, especially spiritual ones such as ways to pray and to see Christ in one another.

This retreat has four parts. Each part will invite you not just to read but to pray and reflect about your life and commitments. Do the retreat in four visits or at your own pace. Click here to begin

Disciples on the Journey Lenten Faith Sharing

Created by the Diocese of Victoria, this faith sharing program can be used individually or in a small group format. Click here to download the reflections for each week of Lent.

One a Day During Lent

This Youth Update is a guide for your Lenten journey. Each day's reflection is closely connected to the Scripture readings of Lent. Each day's thought can take you a mile.

Use these mile markers as a direction for prayer. Read them and write your own notes in a journal. Use them as a way to prepare to celebrate the Eucharist. Read them with friends and reflect together on their connection to your lives. Move slowly and deliberately toward Easter. Click here to begin

Lent: Time to Review your Life

Mother Teresa called herself a "pencil in the hands of God." During Lent, this Youth Update invites you to look at what God has "written" thus far with, through and in you.

Lent is an especially appropriate time in which to take the journey back in time to trace your life story, your autobiography. An excellent guide for such a journey is the person upon whom the season of Lent centers: Jesus. The parts of Jesus' journey parallel your own. In this edition of Youth Update, author Michael J. Daley guides you through the life of Jesus, inviting comparison to your own.
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Lent: Fasting for the Feast

Lent comes around every year. The season has a reputation for being a tough time. Three long-standing traditions of Catholic Lenten observance are penance, fasting (and abstinence or not eating meat on Fridays) and giving money to the poor. In one word, Lent is about fasting—in three different ways. Find out more here.