Lenten Activities

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Ash Wednesday

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 2. For Mass times and ash distribution, check your parish.

Retreats/parish missions/Lenten study

• “A Lenten Journey with Mary” sponsored by the Militia Immaculate Villages will be March 4-5. Hours for are Friday 3–8:30 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary Catholic Church, 4050 South 3900 West, West Haven. Free. Register at www.stmarysutah.org. For information, call 801-621-7961.

• Lenten parish mission — at Holy Family Parish March 6-8, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. each night at the church, 1100 East 5550 South, Ogden. With Tony Brandt and Chris Steward from Casting Nets Ministry. Active Catholics, lapsed Catholics and non-Catholics are all welcome. No charge.

• Lenten study — “Entering the Passion” with Dr. Brandon R. Peterson will be Thursdays during Lent beginning March 3 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. each night except April 7. The sessions will be in the Archbishop Wester lecture hall at The Madeleine Choir School and simulcast on Zoom. The study will use A.J. Levine’s book Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner’s Guide to Holy Week. Signup sheet at https://forms.gle/KPsNyXgFJhhZEM9H8.

Holy Week

• Good Friday Choral Meditation “Stabat Mater” by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi will be performed by The Madeline Choir School on Friday, April 15, at 3 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Madeline, 309 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Free and open to the public.

• Easter Vigil — The Most Reverend Oscar A. Solis, Bishop of Salt Lake City, has determined that the Easter Vigil should not be celebrated in the Diocese of Salt Lake City before 8:30 p.m. on April 16. If there is a pastoral need to start earlier, contact Msgr. Colin F. Bircumshaw, Vicar General.

If your parish or Catholic organization are planning a Lenten event to which the greater community is welcome (such as a retreat or prayer service), and you would like to have the information printed in the calendar section of the Intermountain Catholic, send the information to atd@icatholic.org. There is no charge for this listing.