Resources for Lent

Parish Retreats and Missions

• Self-directed Retreats using the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults
• Parish Mission using the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults
• Lenten Radio Retreats

Audio/Video Resources

• The Face: Jesus in Art (DVD)
• Picturing Mary (DVD)
• Jesus Decoded
• Lenten Radio Retreats

Prayer and Worship Resources

• Ash Wednesday: Blessing of the Season and a Place of Prayer
• At Table During the Weekdays of Lent
• Passion Sunday: Placing of Branches in the Home
• Blessing of Easter Foods
• Stations of the Cross
• Journey to Calvary: A Way of the Cross for the Terminally Ill
• Way of the Cross
• Celebrating the Sacrament of Penance and How to Go to Confession cards
• Additional liturgical resources
• Additional prayer resources in Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers (Revised Edition)

RCIA Resources

• United States Catholic Catechism for Adults and Reader's Journal for the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults
• Come to the Water: The Adult Journey to Baptism
• Book of Readings on the Eucharist--A resource for Mystagogy

Bulletin Inserts

Parishes and schools have permission to reproduce the downloadable PDF versions of the following bulletin inserts for free distribution. If you take advantage of this offer, please inform us at publications@usccb.org so we can track usage.

To download Adobe Reader

• Indulgences and Our Spiritual Life
• Penitential Practices for Today’s Catholics
  To buy copies of the brochure Penitential Practices for Today's Catholics
• The Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist
• Thirty-One Questions on the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
• Seven Questions on the Distribution of Holy Communion Under Both Kinds
• Who Can Go to Holy Communion?
• Jesus and the Jews

Readings for Lent

• 1st Sunday of Lent
• 2nd Sunday of Lent
• 3rd Sunday of Lent
• 4th Sunday of Lent
• 5th Sunday of Lent
• Palm Sunday
• Holy Thursday
• Good Friday
• Easter Vigil
• Easter Sunday

Other Lenten Programs and Resources

• Operation Rice Bowl