Lent with Human Concerns
This is the fasting that I wish: setting free the oppressed, sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, and not turning your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn…~from Isaiah 58:6-8
Questions? Contact Kate Burke at burkeKLY@gmail.com.
Ash Wednesday
- Participate in Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl
Week 1
- To your mealtime prayer, add “we pray that all will be fed, all will be healed, and all will be loved”
- Join in the Carbon Free Lent Challenge
- Read the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ special message on immigration and watch this short USCCB video
Week 2
- Pray the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father) in Spanish in solidarity with our sister parish in Peru, Santisimo Sacramento
- Learn about one of our Partners in Mercy
- Read
Catholic Elements of Immigration Reform
Week 3
- Pray an Ecological Rosary
- Watch Immigration: Facts, Fiction, and Faith
- Make a plan to visit or volunteer with one of our
Partners in Mercy
Week 4
- Pray with the Gospel, John 9:1-41 using these prompts: “When have I been blind to issues of peace and justice?” and “How can the works of God be made visible through my actions?”
- Read Immigration: Fiction vs Facts
- Donate to one of our
Partners in Mercy
Week 5
- Pray the Stations of the Cross for Migrants and Immigrants
- Look through your social media with a lens of human dignity: when have I been divisive, demeaning, or disrespectful? Repent for those times and resolve to do better.
- Read
Laudate Deum by Pope Francis
Week 6
- Pray with an Ecological Examination of Conscience
- Visit or plan to visit the Catholic Ecology Center
- Donate to an organization helping refugees and immigrants such as
Catholic Charities or
Forward Latino