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Parish Lent & Holy Week liturgies &
parish activities calendar 2025 ~ updates in our Newsletters
CTIPA Ecumenical Lenten Frugal Lunches 2025
download poster Proceeds to CAFOD
and Christian Aid.
Dates and
Venues: held from 12 noon to 1.15pm.
Saturday 8th March - Quakers + YMCA Alverton Road TR18 4TE
Saturday 15th March - St Peter’s Church, Newlyn TR18 5QF
Saturday 22nd March - Roman Catholic Church Penzance TR18 2DX
Saturday 29th March - Chapel Street Methodist TR18 4BE
Saturday 5th April - High Street Methodist TR18 2SU
Saturday 12th April - St Thomas’ Church, Heamoor TR18
3JB
Good Friday
CTIPA Walk of Christian Witness 18th April: We gather at
Penzance Bus station, the procession will leave at 11.30 am to
“Follow the Cross” up Market Jew Street followed by a short service
outside Lloyds Bank at 12.00, after which folk are invited to the
Salvation Army Hall, Queen Street, for a cup of tea and a hot cross
bun.
Please join us anywhere along the route through the town. Poster (with Lent Lunch info)
Pope Francis: message for Lent 2025 ~~ Pope Francis:
Lent messages index
Lent
Reflection: "Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we
can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in
order to defeat the temptations of the Evil One. It is a period of
spiritual 'combat' which we must experience alongside Jesus, not
with pride and presumption, but using the arms of faith: prayer,
listening to the word of God and penance. In this way we will be
able to celebrate Easter in truth, ready to renew the promises of
our Baptism." ~ Pope Benedict XVI
Collect for 1st Sunday of
Lent: Grant, Almighty God, through the yearly observances of
holy Lent, that we may grow in understanding of the riches hidden
in Christ and by worthy conduct pursue their effects. Through our
Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the
unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen
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BELOW are from earlier
years - links are still useful.
If you
missed watching it at a Lent group 2023: The
Letter - Laudato Si' Film tells the story about the Pope’s call
to care for our planet, website - also Pope Francis' Encyclical letter link:
“Laudato Si'.” (Care for our common
home)
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Ignatian
spirituality for Lent 2021: The Jesuit's online retreat
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A short
meditation for Lent: ‘The Green
Cross’ by Canon David Annear
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Stations of The Cross |
Photos of 'Stations of The Cross' in Penzance Catholic
Church
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video Stations of the
Cross from Plymouth Cathedral,19th Feb 2021
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video parts 4 & 5 of our 2020
Lent CaFE course, 'Let it Be Done Unto Me According To Your
Word'.
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Caritas
Plymouth Lent
resources - podcasts, links and ideas for reflection, with a
focus on Catholic Social Teaching.
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Mary's Way of
The Cross Meditations + alternative
link
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CAFOD Lent Calendar
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Lent Homilies from our library
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Music for the Triduum during Covid-19
restrictions on singing, from choir and musicians at our
church. 
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Parousia: The Bible and the Mass. A Lent 2021 journey through
scripture, hosted by Scott Hahn to uncover why all God’s action, in
creation & redemption, is ordered to the
Mass.
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More LENT
external links are below ~
Lent Reflections
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Are you
giving something up for Lent? Please consider
donating any savings you make to:
1. The Catholic Children’s Society Plymouth, make
a difference to local vulnerable children and families, visit
website
2. "Mary's
Meals" It costs just £19.15 to feed a child at school for a
year!
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Pope Francis: Make room for God, not
a love of wealth, to find your place in Heaven. Without making room
for God’s word in their heart, people will never be able to welcome
and love all human life. The word of God helps us to open our eyes
to welcome and love life, especially when it is weak and
vulnerable. The text of the message is based on the parable of
Dives and Lazarus in Luke: 16: 19-31. The parable calls for sincere
conversion, and it provides a key to understanding what we need to
do in order to attain true happiness and eternal life.
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‘But now, now – it is the Lord who speaks – come back to
me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning. Let your hearts
be broken, not your garments torn, turn to the Lord your God again,
for he is all tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in
graciousness, and ready to relent.' (from 1st reading of
Ash Wednesday - in full see Joel 2:12 - 18)
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“Take heed that you
do not make fasting to consist only in abstinence from meats. True
fasting is to refrain from vice. Shred to pieces all your unjust
contracts. Pardon your neighbours. Forgive them their trespasses.”
Do you hunger to know God more, to grow in his holiness, and to
live the abundant life of grace he offers you? ~ Basil the Great - Fasting on Wikipedia
& on Catholic
online
"Lord Jesus, our Saviour, let us now
come to you: Our hearts are cold; Lord, warm them with your
selfless love. Our hearts are sinful; cleanse them with your
precious blood. Our hearts are weak; strengthen them with your
joyous Spirit. Our hearts are empty; fill them with your divine
presence. Lord Jesus, our hearts are yours; possess them always and
only for yourself." ~ St. Augustine
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Comment from a 2007 Lenten Zenit e-mail: "Sacred
Scripture, the Church Fathers, and Tradition invite us to live Lent
with a spirit of interior conversion, made concrete in three
things: fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. As the Catechism of the
Catholic Church no. 1434 says: "Express conversion in relation to
oneself, to God, and to others." No. 1438 of the Catechism goes on
to say: "The seasons and days of penance in the course of the
liturgical year (Lent, and each Friday in memory of the death of
the Lord) are intense moments of the Church's penitential practice.
These times are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises,
penitential liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary
self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and fraternal sharing
(charitable and missionary works)." Vatican
archive link
- Lent
- From an Anglo-Saxon word, lencten, meaning,
"spring," the time of the lengthening of the days. Lent is one of
the seasons of the church year and is the forty-day period
beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Holy Saturday (the day
before Easter). The period is actually 46 days, but since Sundays
are feast days and to be celebrated, they are not included in the
count. Lent is intended to be a period of preparation and penitence
marked by fasting and meditation. Lent is widely associated with
denial -- "giving something up for Lent." and it can also be seen
as a time of "doing something" and also coming closer to God. Lent
is definitely a time for self-examination and a time to grow
spiritually through prayer.
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- Purple
- The Liturgical colour used in the season of Lent is
Purple which signifies penitence and preparation. The origins of
the custom of covering the statues in purple for the last two weeks
of the season go back to the 9th century and help remind us that
this is a special time of the year, and at the same time to focus
our attention through the events of Holy Week on to Christ’s work
of Redemption.
- Ash Wednesday (Day of Ashes)
- The Wednesday marking the beginning of the season of
Lent, usually observed with a period of fasting and spiritual
preparation. A day of fasting and abstinence for Catholics.
In the Ash Wednesday liturgy, the priest makes a sign of the cross
with ashes on a person's forehead as a mark of their mortality
saying "Remember (man) that you are dust, and to dust you shall
return." or "Turn away from sin and believe in the Gospel"
["good-news"] ) The ashes are burned palms saved from the previous
year's Palm Sunday celebration.
- Palm Sunday
- The Sunday before Easter, where Jesus' final and
triumphal entry into Jerusalem is observed. The Gospel of passion
of Our Lord is read. Real palm branches or crosses made from palms
(or both) are blessed and distributed to the congregation usually
after a short procession. I Palm Sunday palms are saved and later
burned to make the ashes for the next year's Ash Wednesday
service.
Holy Week
The week preceding Easter -- the last week in Lent. Holy
Week is the most important period of the church year, observed with
many special services, beginning with Palm Sunday and concluding on
Holy Saturday. Holy Week includes Maundy Thursday and Good
Friday.
- Maundy Thursday
- Thursday in Holy Week; the name is from a corruption of
the Old English word for "commandment" in Christ's commandment
given in John 13:34: "A new commandment I give you, that you love
one another." The word "command" was originally spelled
"commaundment" and was shortened to "Maundy" through careless
enunciation. The command is closely tied to another "commaund"
given by Jesus at the same time:"Do this in remembrance of me."
Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday) was the day on which the first
Lord's Supper, the Last Supper, was celebrated with the 12
Disciples. Maundy Thursday services often include "stripping the
altar" (removing all items including hangings) and in some
parishes, foot washing (see John 13:5).
Good Friday
- The day in Holy Week in which we remember Christ's
arrest, passion, crucifixion, and death on a cross. It is unclear
where the name "Good Friday" originated. Some have said it is a
corruption of "God's Friday," Others say it is called "Good"
because of the great benefits given to humanity by Christ's death
and resurrection.
- He was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for
our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and
with his stripes we are healed. ~ Isaiah 53:5
- Holy Saturday
- Lighting the "First Fire"
- Paschal Candle
- From the Hebrew word Pesach, meaning Passover. A
large candle on a tall holder, placed in a prominent position on
the left side of the sanctuary. The candle is lit from the first
fire kindled at the Holy Saturday Mass and then throughout the
Easter season, also during baptisms, weddings, and
funerals.
Easter
The festival that
commemorates the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, the third
day after he was crucified. It is called Easter Day but has come to
be called Easter Sunday by the media, most laity, and some clergy,
all of whom ought to know better! Easter is a movable feast, which
means it does not always fall on the same day each year. Easter is
always the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal
equinox (first day of Spring). By this calculation, Easter could
occur anytime from March 22, to April 25. The length of Epiphany
and the Season after Pentecost, as well as the dates of Ash
Wednesday, Holy Week, Ascension Day, Pentecost, and Trinity Sunday
are all determined by the date of Easter. Easter is also a Church
season, spanning the 50 days (six Sundays) after Easter, to
Ascension Day.
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"Peace is the gift of Christ, which he obtained for us
with the sacrifice of the Cross. To achieve it effectively it is
necessary to climb with the divine Teacher up to Calvary. And who
can guide us better in this ascent than Mary who, as she stood at
the foot of the Cross, was given to us as our mother through the
faithful apostle, St John." ~ Pope John Paul II (Palm Sunday,
2003)
"Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a
tree we have our debt cancelled." ~ Irenaeus
n.b. Divine Mercy
Novena commences on Good Friday
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Question:
When Is Lent? ~ Lent is the season of penance and
prayer before Easter. Answer:
Lent starts every year on
Ash Wednesday which always falls 46 days before Holy
Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday.
Ash Wednesday falls on February 10th 2016, and
Holy Saturday falls on March 26th, 2016. While Lent is a 40-day
period of fasting and prayer,
there are 46 days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (inclusive).
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