Lent 2026

On the left side menu, you'll find opportunities to join small faith discussion groups, listen to Lent-inspired music, attend our annual Lenten Mission, find information on our fish fry dates, and more! We hope you will set aside some time to observe this sacred liturgical season with us. We keep a full schedule of events planned for Lent and the Easter season, with many opportunities for prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.

Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter. During Lent, we seek the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scripture; we serve by giving alms; and we practice self-control through fasting and abstinence. 

For members of the Latin Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal. The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards.

-United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

We are called not only to abstain from luxuries during Lent, but to a true inner conversion of heart as we seek to follow Christ's will more faithfully. We recall the waters of baptism in which we were also baptized into Christ's death, died to sin and evil, and began new life in Christ. (Sources: Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)