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2026 Lenten Calendar & Planner

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Prepare Your Heart and Home for a Fruitful Lent

Our family always begins to breathe a little differently when February rolls in and the liturgical season of Septuagesima approaches. It is a tender and purposeful sweet spot in the Church’s year, a time of interior preparation before the ashes, before the stricter fast begins, and before Holy MotherChurch formally calls us into the long, holy embrace of Lent. It is my favorite season.

In the Traditional Roman Rite, Septuagesima is not merely optional. It is a sacred season that preludes the penitential mortifications of Lent and invites us to calm the noise of the world so that our hearts may be ready for the solemn warnings and graces that are to come.

For 2026, here are the key dates to mark on your calendar:

  • Septuagesima Sunday: February 1, 2026
  • Ash Wednesday: February 18, 2026

These dates remind us that preparation matters, that Lent is a grace-filled journey and not merely a list of do’s and don’ts.

Why a Lenten Planner Is a Treasure for the Home

Several years ago, I created our family’s Lenten Planner and Calendar because I felt the need — not for something complicated, but for something visible that would help us live the season rather than just look at it on the calendar.

And over the years, it has become one of the most requested printables in our home. My children insist we pull it out every Lent, and honestly, I do too. What began as a simple desire to stay organized has blossomed into a beloved family practice.

This calendar and planner are the work of a lay Catholic for personal observance of Lent and private devotions and it has been used in countless homes to help families follow the Church’s liturgical rhythm faithfully.

Living the Liturgical Year in the Family at Home

Our faith is not meant to be contained between Sundays or prayer times. It is meant to shape our days, our meals, our chores, our family rhythms, and our very hearts.

This planner helps your home live the liturgical life by

  • providing a daily calendar rooted in Tradition
  • marking feasts and saint days as opportunities for intercession
  • giving space to plan intentions and reflections
  • helping you keep track of resolutions and sacrifices throughout the season

When we display Lent in our home….where it can be seen every day….it softly teaches both young and old what it means to follow Christ’s call to conversion.

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Includes variations of the 2026 Calendar & several Lenten Planning Sheets!

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.

What’s Included in the 2026 Planner

This year’s Lenten Planner & Calendar includes:

  • 2026 Lenten Calendar with images of saints and details of the Liturgical Day. This is for printing and display.
  • Liturgical & Feast Day Planner — helps you prepare for holy days throughout Lent, Easter, and Pentecost
  • Lenten Examination — a gentle guide for self-reflection
  • Lenten Plan Pages — spaces to document family and personal resolutions
  • Lenten Calendar (Dated & Blank) — so you can adapt it to your needs
  • Lenten Weekly Log — to help track prayer, fasting, and acts of charity
  • Lenten Calendar in List Format — for easy reference from Septuagesima onward

Saints are listed on feria days so that we can remember to invoke their intercession on their feast days, and historical feast days are clearly marked to help us immerse ourselves in the rich heritage of the Church.

Printing & Display Suggestions

This planner prints beautifully in large formats:

  • 11×17
  • 24×36 poster size

A large calendar is perfect for your kitchen wall, school room, prayer corner, or anywhere you want to be reminded of the sacred season unfolding before your eyes. My children always love to place a sticker marker over the day as it passes.

Stores like Staples and WalMart offer inexpensive printing options, including blueprint style prints, so that these calendars can be visible and accessible throughout the season.

Lenten Calendars of the Past

New Offer This Year — Personal Planning Call

For those who desire deeper guidance as they prepare for Lent, I am offering a complimentary 15-minute personal call with your planner purchase (by 2.19.26).

Simply email me your purchase confirmation along with two days and times that work for you for a brief phone meeting. I will do my very best to accommodate your schedule, especially before Ash Wednesday or within the first week of Lent.

I look forward to speaking with you and helping you prepare for a peaceful and fruitful season.

During this call, I would be happy to help you

  • build a realistic Lenten plan
  • balance family life and devotion
  • address a Rule of Life
  • clarify fasting and penance
  • answer questions
  • encourage you personally

Offering & Accessibility

This planner is available for a minimum offering, an amount that makes it possible for families to have this resource without pressure.

If you are able to give more, your generosity is appreciated. If you are unable to give at this time, please reach out.

You may download and print the planner for personal family use.

You may share the link to this post, but please do not link directly to the downloadable files.

If you need any assistance, feel free to email me.

May this planner help you and your family not just count the days of Lent but to live them with intention, peace, and joy — growing closer to Christ in every moment.

Download. Print. Plan. Live Lent Well.

If you are reading this and have not yet begun to observe the seasons of the Church, please do not worry.

Begin where you are.

Do not be discouraged by what you feel you “should have” done by now. Do not compare your journey to anyone else’s. Our Lord looks only at your heart and your desire to love Him.

Start today.

Seek to make this Lent the best one you can.
Live it as though it were your last.

Do not fret about showing up in the eleventh hour. Remember that the workers who came late into the vineyard were welcomed with the same generosity. God’s mercy is never delayed for those who turn to Him sincerely.

What matters is not when you begin.
What matters is that you begin.

Offer Him what you have.
Give Him your effort.
Give Him your yes.

Even small sacrifices offered with great love are precious in His sight.

Let this Lent be marked not by perfection, but by fidelity.
Not by fear, but by trust.
Not by discouragement, but by love of God.

And if you stumble, begin again.

Below are FREE Lenten Resources

Lenten Resources for Children:

Lenten Spiritual Reading & Sermons:

Advent Planner 2025

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The Church commences, on this day, to contemplate the coming of the Redeemer, and with the prophets to long for Him; during the entire season of Advent she unites her prayers with their sighs, in order to awaken in her children also the desire for the grace of the Redeemer; above all to move them to true penance for their sins, because these are the greatest obstacles in the path of that gracious Advent; therefore she prays at the Introit of the day’s Mass: “To Thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul: in Thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed: neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on Thee shall be confounded. Show me, O Lord, Thy ways, and teach me Thy paths.” (Ps.XXIVJ

Goffine’s Devout Instruction, Imprimatur 1880

The first Sunday in Advent is November 30 this year. It is the first day of the Ecclesiastical Year and the beginning of the holy season of Advent.

Some observe St. Martin’s Lent as the preparatory period for Advent as was once done. It is considered a time to prepare for the preparatory period of Advent in which we prepare for the ultimate feast.

Whatever date you opt to begin your Advent observance, having a plan and set resources can be very helpful. Our Advent planner can be used as a stand-alone Advent resource, as a framework for you to lay out your own Advent program, or as a combination of both.

This Advent Planner includes printables that will help you keep track of your resolutions and plan throughout the Advent season, a “mini Lent.” I’ve also included the basic framework of our very simple Family Advent Plans with links to meditations, audio, Jesse Tree reflections, read-aloud stories for children, and videos.

This planner uses the Liturgical Calendar based on the most traditional form of the Roman Rite, before changes of 1950, 1956, 1960, and 1962. It corresponds to the fully traditional version of the Missale Romanum and the Breviarium Romanum in four volumes.

This resource is a labor of love. But well worth it as it is something that we use in our home to help us live out the Faith and tend to our Rule of Life within the Advent season.

May we restore our hearts & our children to Christ through every means we can.

In Christo Rege,

Get Your Advent Planner Now

ADVENT PLANNER Includes:

  • Advent Plan to document your resolutions – 2 pgs
  • Advent Examination for the – 1 pg
  • Advent Weekly Log to track resolutions – 4 pgs
  • Liturgical Planner | Advent Feastday Planner – printed and used to help you plan for holy days & feastdays in the Advent season – 1 pg
  • Advent & Christmas Liturgical Calendar – list form for easy reference.  2 pgs – 4 pages per sheet
  • Advent Calendar – blank to use as needed – 2 pgs
  • Family Advent Plans – This is what we use for a reference for our basic Advent plans – helping to ensure that we follow the liturgical calendar and tend to our devotions while keeping things in order.  It includes links to FREE meditations, audio, Jesse Tree reflections, and read-aloud stories & videos for children. – 15 pgs

The Clock of the Passion

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May we take the lead of St. Alphonsus Liguori and walk hour by hour with Our Lord using The Clock of the Passion—a holy meditation charting the final 24 hours of Jesus’ life on this earth.

As we enter into this sacred Triduum, let us not be mere spectators but true companions of Christ in His Passion. May we allow these sacred moments, laid out through Scripture and Tradition, to pierce our hearts and move us to a deeper, tender devotion toward our suffering Savior. 💔✝️

“The Church, in her liturgy, is not simply recalling a past event; she is living again the mysteries of our redemption. The Triduum is not a commemoration only, but a participation. She bids her children unite themselves with Jesus, who is still carrying His cross in His members and offering Himself as a victim in every Mass.” #DomGuéranger

Let us not rush through these days. Let us watch and pray. Let us love and console the Heart that has so loved us.

🕯️ Will you join us in keeping watch with Jesus this Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday? The hours are marked… He waits not for the multitude, but for you!

+Prayer by St. Alphonsus de Liguori

O my Jesus! I pray Thee make me always remember Thy Passion; and grant that I also, a miserable sinner, overcome at last by so many loving devices, may return to love Thee, and to show Thee, by my poor love some mark of gratitude for the excessive love which Thou, my God and my Saviour, hast borne to me. Amen.

🎶 “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” — sung by the @sistersofaquinas — hymn of our Good Friday. We’ve been blessed to sing it daily alongside the sisters during this holy season of Lent. May its sorrowful beauty draw our hearts ever nearer to His.

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