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February 18, 2021Are you looking for resources for you or your family to get the most out of Lent this year? We have assembled a collection to get you started; Choose from a variety of programs to fit your schedule via Text, E-mail, Video, or E-book. Some of these use our parish's FORMED subscription - Remember: Formed is free to all parishioners thanks to a grant from the diocese!) Grow stronger in your faith with these resources to help cultivate a deeper understanding and make this Lent a grace-filled and fruitful season!
Lenten Challenge (Email or Text)
Join the Lenten Challenge on FlockNote, starting Feb 18th. Each day for 25 days receive a short email or a quick text message during Lent that teaches and challenges you in your faith journey!
Visit FlockNote and add yourself to the Lenten Challenge or Lenten Challenge-Text group!
The Wild Goose (Video Study Program)
Father Rob has recommended this series, which will include weekly Zoom discussions (more details to be announced). The Wild Goose series is truly a work of the Holy Spirit from 4PM Media and The Ministry of The Wild Goose. “Wild Goose” was a term that the ancient Celts had for the Holy Spirit. It is a 14 part series featuring Fr. Dave Pivonka and various interviews. Shot in various locations from Niagara Falls to the California desert, The Wild Goose invites viewers to an encounter, or a renewed encounter, with the Holy Spirit. Find out more at 4pmmedia.com and thewildgooseisloose.co...
Portland Diocese Lenten Resources
The Portland Diocese has published an extensive and excellent list of resources for these 40 days. Visit their website to find out more:
Led by the Spirit Daily Lenten Reflections (Short Daily Video)
Sign up for the lent series of insightful five minute videos. Journey with Dr. Tim Gray by signing up for FORMED Daily Lenten Reflections at formed.org/len.... Each day you will receive in your inbox a short video which features Dr. Gray commenting on the daily Mass readings, explaining the Scriptures, and providing you with concrete ideas on how to apply them to your Christian life.
A Lent to Remember (Video Study Program)
Featuring the highly-acclaimed Augustine Institute programs Symbolon and Forgiven: The Transforming Power of Confession, A Lent to Remember explores the ways God reaches out to each of us with his mercy. Through Christ's suffering on the cross in the Paschal Mystery and his perpetual reception of his people in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, God makes his love, his very self, present to us in the world. By reflecting on the Paschal Mystery and making a step-by-step examination of the Rite of Confession, A Lent to Remember communicates God's invitation to each one of us to come experience his indescribable love this Lent.
Try viewing one session a week!
My Beloved Son: Meditations for Lent by Bishop Robert Barron (Audio Book)
Bishop Robert Barron offers five sermons on the spiritual discipline we must cultivate in the Lenten season, a discipline centered on Christ. These meditations cover topics such as finding our identity in God, prayer as the key to mission, our thirst for God, how to end our alienation from God, and how to embrace the way of happiness joyfully.
Meditations for Lent by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (E-book)
in Kindle and Epub formats
Even three hundred years ago, believers found it difficult to sustain for forty days the proper Lenten spirit. That's why even then, countless Christians turned to the writings of Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704), whose great piety and simple eloquence won him renown as one of the greatest preachers of his time. Translator Christopher Blum has selected from Bishop Bossuet's voluminous works fifty brief but remarkably powerful meditations that complement the daily readings at Mass during the Lenten season, thus offering to us the perfect companion for a thoughtful and fruitful Lent.