Lent 2021 @ STM

"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. We are called not only to abstain from luxuries during Lent, but to a true inner conversion of heart as we seek to follow Christ's will more faithfully" ("What is Lent?" - USCCB).

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LENTEN FRIDAYS
February 19, 26 & March 5, 12, 19, 26

• Divine Mercy Chaplet following 9:00AM Mass
• Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction: 6:30—7:00PM
• Stations of the Cross: 7:00PM
• Pray the Stations of the Cross with STM from home! Click here for our Lenten Friday Stations of the Cross from 2020.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

• Every Saturday at 3:30 - 4:30 PM
• Monday-Friday at 8:40 AM
• Tuesday, March 23 at 7:00 PM: Penance Service with Individual Confessions
• Click here for details on the Sacrament of Reconciliation & other resources

EXPOSITION & ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

• Every Saturday at 3:30 - 4:30 PM
• Click here for details on our Saturday Eucharistic Exposition & Adoration

FAITH QUEST 2021 - ONLINE ADULT EDUCATION FORUM

• Sponsored by the parishes of West Essex (St. Aloysius, Notre Dame, Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, and St. Thomas More)
• This year, offered online only via Zoom (live-stream webinar)
• ​Click here for details/registration information

For the Lenten Regulations (including Fasting/Abstinence, "Easter Duty," etc.)
​for the Archdiocese of Newark, please click here.