Lent 2025

Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's 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; and we practice self-control through fasting.

By denying ourselves something good, we remember what the highest good of all is – GOD. We also practice self-discipline and self-mastery, which we need in order to achieve holiness. Jesus fasted in the desert and calls us to the same practice.

All Catholics from 14 and up are required to abstain from meat on Fridays in Lent. On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, Catholics 18-60 are required to eat only one average meal and two snacks without anything else. Children, the elderly, and those who are sick are not obligated to do this. We give up meat, which still today is a luxury in some parts of the world, as a good thing that we offer up in order to remember that Christ is better than food and needed more by all of us than anything else.

By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert. 
Catechism of the Catholic Church 540  

Lenten Reconciliation Services
The following are Lent Reconciliation times and dates within the Fredericksburg Deanery.

Monday, March 24, 2025—6:00 p.m.
Kerrville, Notre Dame

Tuesday, March 25, 2025—7:00 p.m.
Boerne, St. Peter the Apostle

Wednesday, March 26, 2025—6:00 p.m.
Bandera, St. Stanislaus

Thursday, March 27, 2025—6:00 p.m.
Fredericksburg, St. Mary

Tuesday, April 1, 2025—6:00 p.m.
Comfort, Sacred Heart

Wednesday, April 2, 2025—6:00 p.m.
Harper, St. Anthony