Recover the ancient tradition of the pre-Lenten season with special devotions including the burial of the Alleluia, prayers for Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima, and devotions for Shrovetide and Mardi Gras.
Spend your Lent profitably with this handy collection of prayers that you can carry in your pocket wherever you go. These excellent devotions from traditional sources will keep your focus on Christ crucified and help stir up a lively repentance and contrition for your sins.
As your Lenten observances intensify, you will appreciate this collection of devotions that will keep your focus on Christ crucified. Carry it in your purse or pocket wherever you go! We've brought together numerous beautiful prayers from traditional sources that will take you through the final two weeks of Lent and Holy Week.
Drawing from the rich Byzantine tradition, Lynne Wardach has compiled decades of teaching, crafting, cooking, and teaching catechism into a book to help Catholic families make the Lenten climb toward heaven.
A timeless classic! One of the most beloved devotions for Lent is the Stations of the Cross, and few versions are as popular as the one composed by St. Alphonsus Liguori. This edition includes 14 engravings you can meditate along with the images of each Station even if you are standing still in a pew, at home, or traveling. Also includes the verses of the Stabat Mater that are often sung between each station.
A great addition to your Lenten practices, this book contains devotions especially for the night of Holy Thursday and throughout Good Friday, from the Agony in the Garden to the death and interment of Christ. A great booklet to take with you to your Good Friday meditations in church, and equally useful for home devotional use to concentrate your focus on the Passion from 12:00 to 3:00 PM.
This traditional devotion, specially suited for Lent, goes back centuries and was not only recited by religious but also commonly prayed by the laity from Books of Hours. It consists of seven Psalms of a penitential character--6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142--followed by the Litany of the Saints, Psalm 69, and a series of final prayers.