Ash Wednesday this year is next week on Feb. 26. I’ve finalized my children’s favorite Lenten resource for our home. It’s not grand by any means but it goes to show that a simple visual can have a great impact on all ages.

Please do not think that your Lenten plans must be extravagant or lengthy. There are many fruits to be found in a simple rhythm during all seasons, especially in the most penitential season of the year.

The institution of Lent is thus brought before us with everything that can impress the mind with its solemn character and with its power to appease God and purify our souls. Look beyond the little world that surrounds us and see how the entire Christian universe is, at this very time, offering forty days’ penance as a sacrifice of propitiation to the offended Majesty of God.

Abbot Gueranger, O.S.B.’s The Liturgical Year.

As always, you are invited to use this Lenten Calendar for your personal use.

A suggested donation amount has been set for this year’s Lenten Calendar — $4. This is only a suggested donation, it can be increased or decreased as you wish.

All proceeds from this year’s Lenten Calendar will go to my daughter’s SFX Mission to Peru.  

The missionaries will be working in the town of Piura at the Parish of Santisimo Sacramento. They will be helping with a variety of projects. These include delivering food and clothing to poor people who are sponsored by American families, helping at the orphanages and school that the parish supports, building chapels and houses, and getting to know the life of the parish. They will also be introducing the Traditional Latin Mass to the town of Piura.

If you are unable to pay, please do not let that stop you from using this resource. Simply, enter the coupon code, SFXmission for a free download.

• You may download and print the calendar for your personal use.
• You may also link to this post but please do not link directly to the file download.
• Email me at JOYfilledfamily{at}gmail{dot}com if you need my assistance.  
• This year’s calendar prints best as 12×18.  Costco Photo has been my best option for speedy and inexpensive printing ($3.99).

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Includes variations of the 2020 Lenten Calendar and more!

O most benign Jesus! who didst so desire to suffer for us, grant, that we may willingly suffer for love of Thee; that we may hate and flee from the detestable pleasures of the world and the flesh, and practice penance and mortification, that by so doing we may merit to be released from our spiritual blindness to love Thee more and more ardently, and finally possess Thee forever.

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2020 Lenten Calendar Guide

• The bottom portion of each day represents the feasts and ferias proper to the season for the Extraordinary Form
• Saints listed without a notation are from the Extraordinary Form liturgy
• Saints listed with “H” are from the Historical calendar
• Each saint featured by a picture is identified by the name immediately above the image (aside from First Saturday)
• This calendar is the work of a lay Catholic for one’s personal observance of Lent and private devotions

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