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This Lent Calendar follows the Traditional Calendar (1962) with some Historical (H) feast days noted. The saints listed in bold are represented with an image.  We do not celebrate many of the feast days listed during Lent.*  They are included for private devotion and will be called upon for intercessory prayers. 

I print my calendar at Costco Photo in 16×20 ($5.99) for the display near the family down stairs altar and 8×10 ($1.49) for bedrooms upstairs.  The calendar can also be printed at home.

You may download and print the calendar for your personal use.

Email me at JOYfilledfamily{at}gmail{dot}com if you prefer to have a JPEG file and/or PDF sent directly to you.  I will gladly send out the 2015 Lenten Calendar file at any time in the Lenten Season.

In order to keep up the character of mournfulness and austerity which is so well suited to Lent, the Church, for many centuries, admitted very few feasts into this portion of her year, inasmuch as there is always joy where there is even a spiritual feast…During the last few centuries, she has admitted several other feasts into that portion of her general calendar which coincides with Lent; still, she observes a certain restriction, out of respect for the ancient practice. ~“The Mystery of Lent” – Extraordinary Form (Tridentine) from Dom Gueranger’s “The Liturgical Year”

• 2015 Lenten Calendar – Purple
• 2015 Lenten Calendar – White
• 2015 Lenten Calendar – Purple Design
• 2015 Lenten Calendar – Purple Design II

 

The following prayers are also included on the calendar.

O Lord Jesus! who spent forty days in the desert without food or drink, and didst permit Thy self to be tempted by the evil spirit, give me, I beseech Thee by that holy fast, the grace to combat, during this holy season of Lent, under Thy protection, against intemperance, and to resist the suggestions of Satan that I may win the crown of eternal life. Amen. ~Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine’s The Church’s Year

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Prayer Before A Crucifix ~ En ego, O bone et dulcissime Iesu

Behold, O good and most sweet Jesus, I fall upon my knees before Thee, and with most fervent desire beg and beseech Thee that Thou wouldst impress upon my heart a lively sense of faith, hope and charity, true repentance for my sins, and a firm resolve to make amends. And with deep affection and grief, I reflect upon Thy five wounds, having before my eyes that which Thy prophet David spoke about Thee, o good Jesus: “They have pierced my hands and feet, they have counted all my bones.” Amen.

This prayer calls to mind Psalm 21, in particular verses 17 and 18, which concern our Lord’s Passion. A plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful on any Friday of Lent or Passiontide who after Communion piously recite this prayer before an image of Christ crucified. On other days of the year the indulgence is partial.

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Lenten Activities & Resources for Kids:

• FREE Printable Lenten Calendar – JOYfilledfamily
• Lenten Calendar for Kids – Pondered In My Heart
• Lenten Program Chart – JOYfilledfamily
• Stations of the Cross for Children – Family, Feast, and Feria
• Empty Tomb Garden – JOYfilledfamily
• Lenten Family Joy Journal – craft
• Stations of the Cross Candles – craft
• Resurrection Eggs

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+Ad Jesum Per Mariam+

We seek to be fully immersed in a life a prayer within our current state of life so that we can grow an intimate union with Christ, foster the virtues of humility and charity, and properly purge ourselves of things of this world that have been hindering our union with Him.  We hope to model the Holy Family of Nazareth with the purpose of transforming our own family into a “true sanctuary of Love”.