Lenten Offerings 2025
We begin the sacred Lenten season living through an extraordinary time. We hold in our hearts climate change realities, political divisions, global unrest, and immense loss, suffering and uncertainty. This is a time of heeding darkness and having faith in light; a time of winter cold dissipating into spring warmth. As we move into this 40-day Lenten journey, what is God inviting each of us to discover? What is the Divine revealing in this time through the realities and possibilities in which we live? Let us walk together and pray the Mystery that dwells in the fertile darkness of these times.
Holy the darkness,
holy the hours,
holy the hope
turning toward light.
“Circle of Grace,” Jan Richardson p. 142
Retreats
April 16-20
“Triduum Retreat” with the Mercy by the Sea team and Father Joseph Donnelly
The Mercy by the Sea Bookstore
“Anchor of the Soul – A Treasury of Readings on Trust and Hope” compiled by Paraclete Press
“An Easter Book of Days: Meeting the Characters of the Cross and Resurrection” by Gregory Kenneth Cameron
“A Different Kind of Fast – Feeding Our True Hungers in Lent” by Christine Valters Paintner
“A Midwinter God – Encountering the Divine in Seasons of Darkness” by Christine Valters Paintner
“Birthing the Holy – Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal” by Christine Valters Paintner
“Leaning Toward Light – Poems for Gardens and the Hands That Tend Them” edited by Tess Taylor
“Make Room: A Child’s Guide to Lent and Easter” by Laura Alary
“The Untethered Soul” by Michael A. Singer
“Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing” by Gayle Boss
“Women Who Followed Jesus – 40 Devotions on the Journey to Easter” by Dandi Daley Mackall
The Mary C. Daly RSM Art Gallery
March 14-May 11
“Mary Magdalene in the Ministry of Jesus: Seeking and Proclaiming Resurrection” - Paintings by Artist Laura James, commissioned by Rita L. Houlihan/FutureChurch
- April 5 – 1:15 – 2:15 p.m. An introduction and overview of the exhibit by Rita L. Houlihan and Laura James, followed by a “meet and greet” reception, 2:15 - 4 p.m.
Online Resources and Self-Study
40 Days of Soup: Daily Reflections and Soup Recipes from Ave Maria Press
A Different Kind of Fast Lenten Retreat (self-study) with Abbey of the Arts
Conversion of Heart for Earth, A Lenten Journey of Faith and Creation, Laudato Si’ Movement
Lent 2025: The Interlinking Strands of Mercy, Justice and Hope, Mercy International Association
Lent Lamentation Prayer Service for Immigrants and Refugees (English | Español)
Lent with the Lord: The Seven Last Words, Archdiocese of Hartford
Lenten Reflection Series, Sisters of Mercy
Let Us Journey Together in Hope, a message from Pope Francis
Seeking Creation, a 2025 Lenten devotional by Creation Justice Ministries
Take Heart Lent 2025, The Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN)
Music
Lenten playlist: “40 Songs for 40 Days” from The McGrath Institute for Church Life
"The Passion" by the Notre Dame Folk Choir filmed live on Good Friday 2023