Catholic Charities of Acadiana Offers 2023 Lenten Toolkit for Individuals and Families

Through pairing your Lenten devotions with support of CCA's FoodNet Food Bank and St. Joseph Diner, these 100% donor-funded programs can continue to provide aid, and your sacrifices bear real fruit for the suffering. 

Just as a calendar year is marked by a dynamic rhythm of nature's seasons, the Catholic Church's year is marked by a dynamic rhythm of liturgical seasons. Ordinary time, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost, Advent, and Christmas. Seasons of the mundane. Seasons of fasting, repentance, and preparation. Seasons of celebration. Feasts, solemnities, and memorials. The Church year is living and active, never allowing us to remain in complacency but calling us into continual conversion and deeper union with our Lord. And that, not just as individuals, but in communion with the entire body of Christ throughout the world. 

The wisdom of our Church recognizes that as human beings composed of body and soul we need tangible elements (what we experience through our senses) as springboards into the intangible realities of our souls. 

As Catholics, our liturgical year calls us to celebrate - not less, but more - ALL that is real! 

Lent is the liturgical season beginning with Ash Wednesday and ending with Easter Sunday. The 40 days of Lent compose a very intentional time of preparation for a deep entrance into our Lord's Passion and Death (most poignantly during Holy Week - Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday). Lent culminates with our celebration of Jesus' Resurrection on Easter Sunday, which then ushers in an equal 40 days of celebration! Easter, not Christmas, is actually the Catholic Church's most important celebration of the whole year! 

During this holy season of Lent, let your acts of penance be acts of love. 

Thank you for caring with us for the sacred gift of all human life, especially the most vulnerable. A blessed Lent to each of you!

Click here to access CCA’s Lenten Toolkit for 2023!

Click here to donate to our Lenten Campaign for FoodNet and St. Joseph Diner.