Lent 2025

This year Ash Wednesday is on March 5th which marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a time when we remember Jesus spent 40 days in the desert fasting and resisting temptation by observing the three disciplines of Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving.

The ashes on our foreheads remind us that we are dust and to dust we shall return. We must always remember that this transient period on Earth simply precedes the everlasting life we will experience in the World to come. The fasting and abstinence we practice throughout Lent are appropriate acts of spiritual self-discipline to prepare for the Holy Day of Easter.

Feast of St. Joseph

March 19th marks the Solemnity of St. Joseph. His intense and complete obedience to God’s word sets the standard of faith that we should strive for and practice.

The Angel of God appeared in Joseph’s dreams a number of times with requests for him. Without question, Joseph dutifully performed what he was asked. Most notably was he took Mary as his wife, and after Jesus was born, the Holy Family fled to Egypt to avoid King Herod’s plot to kill all first born sons. God designated St. Joseph as the foster father of Our Lord on Earth and so entrusted him with the virginity of Our Lady, His only-begotten Son and the secret of the incarnation of Christ.

" In his self-gift to Mary and Jesus, St. Joseph fully shares in authentic human fatherhood and the mission of a father in the family." (St. John Paul II)