Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. It is a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection at Easter.
During Lent:
We seek the Lord in prayer, by reading Sacred Scripture.
We serve by giving alms.
We practice self-control through fasting.
We are called not only to abstain from luxuries during Lent, but to a true inner conversion of heart as we seek to follow Christ’s will more faithfully.
We recall the waters of baptism in which we were also baptized into Christ’s death, died to sin and evil, and began our new life in Christ.
Lent 2025 begins on Ash Wednesday (March 5) and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday (April 17).
Proclaim! E-News
Lenten news from around the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown
Proclaim! TV
Lenten video, including Father Byrnes’ Lenten Reflections, from Proclaim! TV
Proclaim! – Lent in 40
The Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown Office of Communications is producing daily Lenten videos that will be emailed or texted to Proclaim! E-News subscribers. In the spirit of the 40 days of Lent, each video will be 40 seconds in length and offer wisdom, inspiration, and prayer from local priests, deacons, religious, and lay individuals to help the faithful have a LIFE-CHANGING LENT.
Proclaim! Magazine
View some tips and “Father Tom’s Roadmap for Lent” from the 2023 Lent Edition of Proclaim! Magazine. Click here to read this full magazine online.
CRS Rice Bowl
Each Lent, Catholic families across the country unite to put their faith into action through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Through Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl, families learn about how our sisters and brothers across the globe overcome hardships like hunger and malnutrition, and how through Lenten alms, we have the power to make the world a better place for all.
