Here are some resources to help you prepare for Holy Week (Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil):
- Holy Week at Home: this resource from Liturgical Press provides adaptations of the Holy Week celebrations for families and homebound.
- Passover: Festival of Liberation: This resource from Education for Justice provides information on the Jewish Passover and an overview of the Seder Meal
- Playlist of Sacred Music for Holy Week: this resource from the Diocese of Calgary provides links to sacred music for each of the days
- Prayer for Good Friday: this resource is a prayer from Pope Francis
- Prayer for Holy Thursday: this resource from Education for Justice is a prayer for Holy Thursday
- Triduum Outline: this resource provides an outline for the Triduum celebrations and an explanation of the symbols on the Paschal candle
- What We celebrate in Holy Week: this resource provides a reflection on each of the days and some questions to ponder
Here are some resources to help you prepare for the Day of Confessions, Wednesday, March 25th:
- How to Make a Good Confession: This resource from the Diocese of London reflects on the sacrament and gives a step – by – step guide for how to go to confession.
- Examination of Conscience for Particular Groups of People: this resource is from the Diocese of London and offers an examination of conscience geared to particular groups of adults:
Weekly Reflections:
- Reflection on Sunday Gospel for the First Sunday of Lent: this resource presents a reflection on the Sunday gospel with questions to ponder and Lenten actions to consider.
- Reflection on the Sunday Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent: This resource presents a reflection on the Sunday Gospel with questions to ponder and Lenten actions to consider.
- Reflection on the Gospel for the Third Sunday of Lent: This resource presents a reflection on the Sunday Gospel with questions to ponder and Lenten actions to consider.
- Reflection on the Gospel for the Fourth Sunday of Lent: This resource presents a reflection on the Sunday Gospel with questions to ponder and Lenten actions to consider.
- Reflection on the Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Lent: This resource presents a reflection on the Sunday Gospel with questions to ponder and Lenten actions to consider.
- Reflection on the Gospel for Palm Sunday : This resource presents a reflection on the Sunday Gospel with questions to ponder and Lenten actions to consider.
Other Lenten Resources:
- Lent and Lenten Practices: this resource gives an overview of what Lent is and the Lenten practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving
- Our Family Lenten Promises: this resource invites families to plan concrete ways they will live out the Lenten practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving
- Ash Wednesday and Lenten Prayers: This resource provides some reflection on Ash Wednesday and several prayers for the Lenten season.
- Lent Daily Reflections/Prayers Options: this resource presents three websites with either prayers or reflections for each day of Lent
- Lent Message of Pope Leo: this resource from the Holy See is the whole Lent message from the pope
- Listening and Fasting Lent as a Time of Conversion: this resource from For a Synodal Church presents illustrated highlights of the pope’s Lent message
- Lent Calendar: this resources from the American bishops gives a daily inspiration for every day of Lent.
- Pope Leo March Prayer Intention for Disarmament & Peace
- Prayers for Peace in Time of War: this resource from various sources presents several different prayers
- Penance & Reconciliation: This resource from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops reflects on the sacrament and questions to help prepare
- Questions and Answers about Confession: this resource is from the Diocese of London
Here are a few versions of the stations of the cross for you to pray if you cannot personally attend.
- The Stations of the Cross by St. Alphonsus Liguori
- Stations of the Cross for Our Times by the Diocese of Ossory in Ireland
- A Scriptural Way of the Cross by the American Bishops
- Bishop Barron Reflects on the Stations. PART ONE PART TWO
- The Way of the Cross from Development and Peace Caritas Canada
- Walking the Stations of the Cross with St. Josephine Bakhita, Patron Saint of Sudan and Trafficked Persons
- Walking with Immigrant Stories
- Walking with Jesus for Peace: A Reflection from Fr. Henri Nouwen