Lent

Lent is a powerful season for reflection, renewal, and spiritual growth, inviting us to journey inward while deepening our connection to others.

Enrich Your Lenten Journey

Education for Justice provides an extensive collection of Lent resources to enrich this journey. These resources include guided prayers, reflective articles, and discussion guides designed to explore themes of sacrifice, justice, and hope. They include everything from “Justice Stations of the Cross” to Lenten calendars, all aimed at making Lent an opportunity for spiritual engagement and social justice.

By connecting themes of compassion and community, these resources help make Lent more meaningful—beyond traditional fasting and penance, toward an active pursuit of justice. Whether you’re a faith leader, educator, or someone seeking to deepen your Lenten practice, these resources provide insights and activities to inspire reflection and action. Explore Education for Justice’s offerings to make this Lent a season of growth that embraces personal transformation and the broader call to social justice.

Birds are coming together, not allowing chains to hold them back from the peace and sunshine that they seek. During time of jubilee it's important to know the power behind coming together.
Prayer

Lenten Jubilee and Justice

The 2025 Jubilee Year Lenten Journey invites reflection and action focused on justice, peace, and healing, inspired by Pope Francis' call for a Jubilee year. Each week of Lent encourages participants...
Book Discussion Guide

Hope from the Ashes

Hope from the Ashes can help readers better understand that the Lenten experience goes beyond their personal experience—and that we are all wonderfully connected. The reader can find, in this book,...
The stone from the tomb rolled away - resources for Lent and Resurrection through the lens of Catholic Social Thought and social justice
Prayer

Alleluia Alleuia Jesus Has Risen

This prayer reflects on the grace renewed through the Resurrection. Not a member? View Prayer Sample
Good Friday resource through the lens of Catholic Social Thought and social justice
Prayer

Good Friday: After Noon

Reflect and pray on the sacrifice that Jesus made on Good Friday. Not a member?View Prayer Sample   Discover meaningful ways to observe Lent with various reflections from Pope Francis...
Prayers on Holy Thursday, prayers on satisfying our hunger, through the lens of Catholic Social Thought and social justice.
Prayer

Satisfy our Hunger: Prayer for Holy Thursday

"You who generously give to all your creatures, Satisfy our thirst and hunger Not for wine and bread alone But for love, truth, justice, and peace Through your gift of the Eucharist." Not a...
A cross planted in the middle of a desserted area with a purple sky. Don't forget that sometimes an uneasy path is the path that needs to be taken to Jesus' love.
Video

Prayer Toward a Lenten Journey of Hope

"May we move through our Lent with kindness and hopefulness As we walk the way of the Cross with courage we walk knowing that we are closer to your love" Not a member?View Prayer...
As this person walks through the grass closer to the sunlight they are also getting closer to penance. During Lent, reflect on how you can strengthen your faith through reflection and penance.
Prayer

Lenten Labyrinth Prayer

This labyrinth reflection was inspired by Pope Francis’ message for Lent 2023 that was titled, “Lenten Penance and the Synodal Journey.” This resource includes a downloadable...
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Lenten Journey Video Prayer

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Lenten Prayer for Ash Wednesday

Lent is a time of reflection on the suffering and injustice present in the world and also an invitation for us to recognize the struggles of others as Christ did. It also calls for transformation...
Prayer

Prayer on the Lenten Journey

This prayer for Lent invites us to embrace the darkness of Christ’s suffering and the suffering of our world today, yet to always journey forward towards the light of our...
Prayer

Lenten Prayer for Peace

Lenten Prayer for Peace by Fr. John Dear is a powerful Catholic prayer inviting believers to embrace the nonviolence of Jesus during the sacred season of Lent. Rooted in the Gospel and the call to...