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Opening Prayer:

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Closing prayer:

, from Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers

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Catechism of the Catholic Church

• On prayer: ,
• On fasting:
• On almsgiving: ,

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Art for visio divina

• 鈥溾�� from (1973)
• 鈥溾�� by Briton Riviere (1898)
• 鈥溾�� by Meltem Aktas (1995)

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Resources:

• (free) for guided reflections on daily Mass readings
• C21 sessions on , lectio divina
• Living Easter: 50 Days to Practice Resurrection. Available from听,听,听, or听(20% off when you buy from Ave with code FANUCCI20). 听once you purchase.

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Questions for personal reflection

• PRAYER: Think back on a time when prayer felt strong or important in your life. What could you draw from that experience into your prayer practice for Lent?
• FASTING: What might God be asking you to fast from?
• ALMSGIVING: Whose voices are crying out for alms this Lent? How could you respond?

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Questions for discussion

1. What hopes or plans do you have for Lent this year?听
2. What from today鈥檚 session stood out to you?
3. Looking back, what have been some fruitful practices of prayer, fasting, or almsgiving for you in Lent in the past?

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Key Takeaways offered by Karen Kiefer

1. 鈥奒eep Jesus' name on our lips.
2. Practice freedom of heart.
3. Fasting leads to feasting.
4. Silence is God's first language.
5. What's pulling you away from God?
6. The theme of the poor, or others, where Jesus can be found
7. Who in your life is crying out for alms?

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Lenten Practices shared by retreatants during the virtual timeout

• Using time in the car intentionally: silence, Christian music, faith podcast or scripture reading, etc. (really whatever works for you in your stage of life, for example being a mom of little kids, silence isn't very practical)
• I am going to renew my Centering Prayer Practice of silence with the Divine.
• My mind always goes to with a more justice oriented-fasting, on offering food to the hungry, helping the poor, clothing the naked, etc. And of course, removing the yoke from among you.
• A church group that participates in Greener Lent:
• I would like to give up looking for the next article or book to read, the next project to begin, and just sit in silence with the Lord.
• During Lent, our parish has a weekly collection of items that are very loosely tied to the week's Gospel. For example, when the Gospel told of Jesus protecting the woman who was going to be stoned, we collected personal care items for women in a shelter for abused women.
• For prayer this Lent, I was thinking of texting one person each day and asking for their intentions, then saying just a decade of the Rosary for them. It鈥檚 a busy season of life with 3 kids 4 and under, so simple is best!
• Thinking of only doing silence while driving/doing chores. No podcasts or music.
• 听Using Irish Jesuits Sacred Space 2026 Prayer Book for daily readings and meditation:听
• I gave up my snooze button last year and used that time for morning prayer. It was challenging and negotiated praying in bed some days, but it was overall very fruitful.
• There's a great hunger for peace in today's world. Pray for peace this Lent.
• Contemplative resources available at:
• IVC which is
• If you want to support Minnesota as part of your Lenten almsgiving, check out听听or local parishes with largely immigrant populations like the听听and the听.