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Lenten Challenge 2025
The Charity and Justice Committee would like to deepen your Lenten experience and fellowship this year with a Lenten Challenge.
Each week, via the weekly "A Look at What's Going On" Flocknote, you will receive a Lenten Challenge with three (3) challenges for the week. Each challenge aligns with our Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving through the lens of biblical justice principles and completed through these actions:
- Learn about our faith in these simple actions.
- Pray beyond formal writings.
- Act beyond monetary almsgiving.
Some challenges take a few moments, others a few hours, but all can be easily accomplished within a week.
Once you complete any of the challenges, please place the appropriate sticker (Learn - books,
Pray - praying hands,
Act - hands and heart) on the Lenten Challenge tree image in the Narthex after Mass. If you complete all 18 challenges, please place 18 stickers!
Week One
Learn: Please take a moment and read the literature about Shepherd's House. Will help you understand who your bag helps. If you created a blessing bag, there is a basket in the Narthex to place these.
Pray: Gratitude is prayer. Begin every day this week by thanking God for the good things in your life, and the opportunity for yet another day.
Act: Fill a Blessing Bag (large, sealable plastic bag) with socks, toothbrush/toothpaste, gloves, and other small toiletries for those at Shepherd's House (Portage County Homeless Shelter). Keep an extra in your car should you see a person in need.
Week Two
Pray: Reflection is prayer. Since the Jubilee prayer is about hope, spend a few minutes in silence and think about the things that give you hope in our future, or in the world.
Learn: What is the Jubilee Year and what's it all about? Take a look at www.jubilaeum2025.va
Act: Share Gratitude - Call, text, or write to someone who is or has been an important part of your life, and let them know how valuable they are to you. Think across your lifetime, not just today.
Note: Don't forget to hang a colored heart on the Justice "Tree" after Mass for any challenge you complete.
