The season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, on February 17, 2021.

Ash Wednesday is NOT a holy day of obligation.
Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence.
 

Weekly Mass Schedule

Saturday Vigil
5:00 p.m.

Sunday
8:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m. (Spanish)
5:00 p.m. Life Teen

Monday through Friday
8:15 am
 

Lenten Fridays

Stations of the Cross every Friday of Lent at 6:00 pm in English and 7:00 pm in Spanish.
*We will not have the 5:00 pm Stations for children this year.*

February 26 | March 5, 12, 19

The annual Knights of Columbus Lenten Fish Fry are each Lenten Friday. More details to come. 
Feb 26th Fish Fry Cancelled

March 5, 12, 19

Lenten Missions

Lenten talk in English "Lent in Crisis"

Thursday, March 11 at 7 pm in the church

Fr. Leon Strieder, Professor at St. Mary's Seminary,

*Talk will be live-streamed. We will follow  the same distancing guidelines as at Mass*

 

Platica de Cuaresma

En español

Miércoles 10 de marzo a las 7 pm en la iglesia

P. Víctor Pérez, pastor de la Iglesia de San José

* Se transmitirá en vivo. Siguiendo las mismas reglas de distanciamiento que en la misa*
 

Lenten Guidelines

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fast and abstinence.

Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence.

As outlined on the USCCB website on Lenten fasting and abstinence, "fasting is obligatory for all who have completed their 18th year and have not yet reached their 60th year. Fasting allows a person to eat one full meal. Two smaller meals may be taken, not to equal one full meal. Abstinence (from meat) is obligatory for all persons who have reached their 14th year.

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.

Through works of prayer, fasting, and abstinence, let us heed the prophet Joel's exhortation to return to God with our whole heart. (2:12)

Lent is a penitential season and as such religious practices such as daily Mass, reception of the Sacrament of Penance, the devotion of the Stations of the Cross, works of charity and justice, and acts of self-denial are highly encouraged.