Category Archives: Lenten Practice

Resources and Apps for Lent

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There are some great resources available for free online to help with our Lenten journeys. Here are some I’ve found, and will be updating as I find more:

Daily Reminders

  • Evangelization is important, but it can be scary to share the Faith. Go Lent promises to send daily texts that will “help you step a little bit more out of your comfort zone each day.”

Reflections and Meditations

Apps

  • FOCUS has created Lentsanity, a website and app (Android, iOS) to help with following the Lenten practices, including alerts from Meat Police to remind us not to eat meat on Friday.
  • For those familiar with Catholic Relief Service’s Rice Bowl campaign, it now has an app (Android, iOS) that presents daily prayers and reflections, recipes from throughout the world, and shows the good work done by CRS throughout the world.

This is what I’ve found so far, but there’s more out there! If you find something interesting and helpful for your Lenten journey, let me know and I’ll add it to the list.

Lenten Practice: Spiritual Reading

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If you’re not already doing it as part of your daily spiritual routine (you do have a daily spiritual routine, right?), spiritual reading during Lent is another great practice that allows us to be drawn into the graces of the season. For this reason, many publishers produce booklets with daily readings, reflections, and prayers that take just a few minutes every day. One Lenten booklet I particularly like, and even ordered as a hand-out to parishioners, is Magnificat‘s Lenten Companion. Sadly, they’ve sold out completely on this year’s edition, so keep it on your list to remember for future years. Magnificat also produces an Advent Companion, which is similarly worth ordering as soon as it’s available.

Along with the daily reflection booklets, Lent is a great time to avail yourself of the many great books on spirituality and Church teaching out there. You can choose from classics like Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales and The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis to more recent spiritual writing by Archbishop Fulton Sheen and Dr. Scott Hahn, among many other spiritually enriching options.

This Lent, join me in turning off the computer and TV, and picking up a good spiritual book or two. My choice is Pope Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem To The Resurrection. What are you reading this Lent?