Lent

Pick up a copy of the Lenten Offerings or download it today!

Make a PLAN for Lent.
Sign Up and join other East Lansing Catholics for the

 Desert Challenge!

Jesus the Bridegroom:
A Lenten Series of Sustenance
Wednesdays at St. John beginning March 12

Sign Up to Bring a Pot of Soup

Fridays during Lent 
12:45pm @ St. John  |  7:00pm @ St. Thomas
Stations of the Cross

Eucharistic Adoration and Confession

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory days of fasting and abstinence for Catholics. In addition, Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of 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.

Members of the Eastern Catholic Churches are to observe the particular law of their own 
sui iuris Church.

A Reflection on Lenten Fasting

If possible, the fast on Good Friday is continued until the Easter Vigil (on Holy Saturday night) as the "paschal fast" to honor the suffering and death of the Lord Jesus and to prepare ourselves to share more fully and to celebrate more readily his Resurrection

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