Lent 2023
The JPIC (Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation) International Office of the Society of the Sacred Heart offers prayer guides throughout this Lenten Season. Check back weekly for new links or visit the JPIC Learning Hub directly (click here).
Ash Wednesday
As we begin the Lenten Season on February 22 with Ash Wednesday, we are invited to “be Reconciled to God.”
Ash Wednesday Prayer Guide (click here)
First Sunday of Lent
“Let us listen to the truth of these victims of violence, let us look at reality through their eyes and listen to their stories with an open heart...”(Fratelli Tutti, § 261)
First Sunday Prayer Guide (click here)
Second Sunday of Lent
“In our wounded world, we need to make an effort to seek hope and truth, and to take concrete actions here and now.” – Thomas Keating, OSCO
Second Sunday Prayer Guide (click here)
Third Sunday of Lent
“Each one of us knows or experiences situations that are close to us, personal and/or communal, that are inviting us to act together, to recognize the need to meet person to person, one by one...”
Third Sunday Prayer Guide (click here)
Fourth Sunday of Lent
“We may fall in darkness but as soon as we acknowledge and want to return to the light, it is the joy of God to restore light in our blindness.”
