IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH
ST MARY, ALEPPO
Lent
Learn what we're doing this Lenten Season
Attend a service.
Learn about the season.
Discover Lenten treasures in the links below!
Services
What are we doing differently during Lent?
Mass Changes
Stations of the Cross
Women's Bible Study
Adoration
Friday's Masses will be at 6:30pm
Fridays starting around 6:50pm after evening Mass
Thursday evenings from 5pm -9pm
Monday evenings @ 7pm in the parish hall. All women invited!
What is Lent?
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.
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When is Lent?
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, this year Feb 18, 2026 and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday.
The Church prepares for Easter (Sunday, April 5th, 2026) by spending 40+ days dedicated to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. We do this to imitate Jesus spending 40 days in the desert preparing for his passion, death and resurrection.
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Fasting & Abstinence
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory days of fasting and abstinence for Catholics. In addition, Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of abstinence.
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For members of the Latin Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal.
The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards...
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...If possible, the fast on Good Friday is continued until the Easter Vigil (on Holy Saturday night) as the "paschal fast" to honor the suffering and death of the Lord Jesus and to prepare ourselves to share more fully and to celebrate more readily his Resurrection.
-USCCB
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