400 Minutes is the Lent proposal by the Jesuit Refugee Service/USA. Why not give up 10 minutes every day and dedicate it to solidarity with refugees? Offer moments of your day to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving in solidarity with refugees.
Take the JRS/USA Lenten Challenge, #400Minutes4Refugees! ?
— Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)/USA (@jrsusa) January 28, 2021
Your chance to pray, fast, give, and BE in solidarity with our refugee brothers & sisters this year.
Registration is now live: https://t.co/MBC2XVs1x2 pic.twitter.com/ucpAMDC419
The JRS/USA has pulled together a list of bits of media to explore throughout the #400Minutes4Refugees Challenge. To listen, to watch, to read or to visit virtually.
6 Ways to Read, Listen & Reflect over the next 40 days! ?
— Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)/USA (@jrsusa) February 16, 2021
Slot in some #refugee & #migration resources for your #Lenten media list. Choose from our favorite @NPR podcasts, poems by @neilhimself & @PoetryFound and more. #400Minutes4Refugeeshttps://t.co/V2Q2PACGpC
An Ignatian Guide to Lent from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the US.
Catholics have a lot of Lenten traditions, but if you’ve been Catholic a long time, these traditions may feel tired and routine. This Lent, use Ignatian spirituality to breathe new insight into these sacred rituals. Learn about Lent and about Ignatian spirituality through the lived experiences of fellow practitioners.
Don't miss any of our Ignatian Guide to Lent! Sign up today to receive Lenten reflections from the #Jesuit family, starting tomorrow on #AshWednesday: https://t.co/whGVfH3Loh pic.twitter.com/VZtWSHdSqF
— Jesuit News (@jesuitnews) February 16, 2021
Resources for Lent, from the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities in Canada and the US, include daily reflections, virtual retreats, livestreamed Masses, videos, podcasts and more. Even a selection of artworks from different museums or galleries on Jesuit campuses.
This #LentenSeason, join #Jesuit universities in prayer and reflection. Visit https://t.co/OkscFhhoo7 for links to daily reflections, virtual retreats, livestreamed Masses, and more, including this week's #JesuitMuseums reflection via @JundtArtMuseum @GonzagaU. #JesuitEducated pic.twitter.com/X6lEUb3VKw
— AJCU (@jesuitcolleges) February 19, 2021
Steadfast: A Call to Love is the initiative from Ignatian Solidarity Network.
During Lent, in these turbulent times, how can we persevere in our work for justice with a steadfast spirit, rooted in love? Join writers from the Jesuit and broader Catholic network as we seek to answer this question, renewing each day throughout Lent our commitment to care for both our fellow human beings and our common home.
Ignatian Solidarity Networks also offers different ways to pray and live Lent, such as this challenge through journaling.
In a world that feels chaotic and turbulent, how do we respond to the Gospel call to love with a steadfast spirit? Explore answers to this question during Lent 2020 through free daily reflections. Subscribe: https://t.co/UzzpqhBBeY pic.twitter.com/wBQpoLCRgo
— Ignatian Solidarity (@IGsolidarityNET) February 18, 2021
Lenten Reflections, from Ignatian Young Adults Ministries (USA East Province), is a selection of audio reflections and readings available to all who wish to join in prayer. They are available to listen to or download each week.
All are invited to pray and reflect alongside @IgnatianYAM during Lent. Find weekly audio reflections here each week (you can also sign up to receive them in your inbox): https://t.co/I10z0v2ZvM pic.twitter.com/HdapxHQ7sZ
— Office of Ignatian Spirituality (@JesuitsEastOIS) February 9, 2021
Alpha Sigma Nu’s Lenten Email Series. Explore traditional themes of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, with history, prayer, resources, and reflections from ASN alumni members. You can also join for a Mass celebrated by Rev. James Miracky, S.J.
From Ashes to Glory, from Ignatian Spirituality by Loyola Press, invites you to take up the practice of reflecting on your day, its gifts and graces, and the progress you are making in life with Christ. It’s a way of praying the Examen through Lent, with materials by Joseph Tetlow, SJ.
Loyola Press also offers Lent with the Saints, with the aid of downloadable handout featuring 40 holy men and women. Let their lives inspire you to courage, service, surrender, and fidelity. They will help you, as you journey with your family and faith community, to grow with them in faith, hope, and love. Check other resources:
– Finding God in the Mess Lenten Read-Along
– Guide to Forgiveness Lenten Read-Along
– Growing in Friendship with God This Lent
Lenten Read-Along: Where Do We Begin with Forgiveness? with @BCPhilosophy Prof. @marinabmccoy via @loyolapress https://t.co/c9s2EmvaGJ
— BC Bookmarks (@BCBookmarks) February 19, 2021
Walking with Earth’s Woundedness, proposed by the Office of Ignatian Spirituality, is a proposal to engage in personal and small-group reflection on themes of our ecologically wounding habits as humans, ecological values we can cultivate, and healing actions we can take.
The Way of the Cross by Jesuit Midwest contains images of the fourteen stations, representing various works of the Midwest Province. Each station includes a reflection written by a Jesuit or lay person from the ministries, inviting diverse perspectives of Jesus’ experience on the day he died.
Walk with us this Lenten season as we pray the Stations of the Cross. https://t.co/i0uBL9ZMR0
— Midwest Jesuits (@MidwestJesuits) February 20, 2021
Stations of the Cross, from Jesuit Refuged Services/USA, has the aim to accompany Jesus on his journey, as we watch and pray over displaced people around the world.
The online Global Lenten Retreat for ignatian educators by Educate Magis is an opportunity to be lived by faculty and staff in Jesuit and Ignatian schools around the world. It includes live presentations, personal reflection, and group faith sharing.
Special Lent Retreat, organized by BBC and Jesuits in Britain, explores aspects of Ignatian spirituality and points listeners to ‘Knowing Jesus’. This retreat is available to anyone in the world with access to the Internet who wants to immerse themselves in the spirituality of St Ignatius.
Fall in Love & Stay in Love is a virtual Lenten retreat from the Jesuits Central and Southern Province, Directed by Fr. Hung Pham, SJ, and Lay Colleagues. The theme of these retreats is “Falling in Love with Jesus,” and they will focus on praying for the grace of conversion.
Join us for a virtual Lenten Retreat, in either English or Vietnamese. More information: https://t.co/uUuLTQmGZu pic.twitter.com/k7LH6imBp2
— Jesuits USA Central and Southern (@JesuitsUCS) February 4, 2021
Plugged-In to Holy Week is a Retreat in Daily Life for young adults, organized by Jesuit Young Adult Ministries. The retreat, offered during Holy Week 2021, provides an opportunity to deepen your friendship with the Lord whilst accompanying him through his passion, death and resurrection. It follows the pattern of an individually guided retreat, shaped by the spirituality of St Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits.
‘Plugged-In’ is an online retreat in daily life for the 18 to 35's.
— Jesuits in Britain (@JesuitsBritain) February 23, 2021
The retreat, offered during Holy Week, follows the pattern of an individually guided retreat, shaped by the spirituality of St Ignatius, founder of the Jesuits.
Find out more: :https://t.co/qW2gFtXQZM pic.twitter.com/uMwMHjQPoH
Abide in His Heart is a virtual retreat by Joe Laramie, SJ. It includes 3 short talks on What Lent is, the First Mass and the Cross.
Compassion: It Makes All the Difference is a virtual young adult retreat proposed by the Office of Ignatian Spirituality to find ways of being a compassionate presence that can help make a difference. Through presentations, small group sharing, communal prayer, meditation and quiet times, Sister Mary Dean invites participants to open their hearts to themselves, to one another, to all living beings and to earth.
Listen to Pray as you go, with daily sessions of a Lent retreat to help you reflect.
Where is your life centred? Session 1 of our #Lent retreat is now ready to help you reflect… https://t.co/lebj6NAB7k @sacredspacepray pic.twitter.com/v96QhKPr5Q
— Pray as you go (@prayasugo) February 22, 2021
The Word podcast from America Magazine shares daily Lenten reflections too.
Lent 2021: Reflections, podcasts and more https://t.co/Z2nEH8tUwc
— America Magazine (@americamag) February 20, 2021
If you are looking for some music, Fr Matt Wooters, SJ, has curated a Lenten Listening Playlist with songs related to prayer, fasting, almsgiving and grief.
Br. Matt Wooters, SJ, has created a #Lenten playlist that includes Gregorian chant, Whitney Houston, Irish music, Gospel and bluegrass. These songs speak to prayer, fasting, almsgiving and grief. https://t.co/E5iEFLpqPU
— Jesuit News (@jesuitnews) February 17, 2021
Please, if you know of more initiatives to live Lent from the Jesuit network, share them with us so that we can include them in this list. Let’s live Lent as a family, learning from others and sharing what we know and can offer to the world.
Have a happy Lent.
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