“The future of humanity passes by way of the family” (Pope John Paul II, The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World, no. 86).

Lenten Resources

Stations of the Cross and Rosary Audio
Features free audio of the stations of the cross, the rosary, and the scriptural rosary that you can listen to on your computer or download to transfer to a CD or your mp3 player.

Praying Lent
Features a Scripture reading, reflection, and prayers for each day of Lent, as well as an audio Lenten retreat. 

USCCB Lenten Resources
Features a number of written, audio, and visual resources to help the faithful grow in their faith during Lent. 

Vatican Lent 2010 page
Features Pope Benedict XVI’s 2010 Lenten message, Lenten music, and a calendar of events in the Church during the Lenten season, which will be updated to contain the Holy Father’s homilies and addresses leading up to Easter. 

Lenten Activities for Children
Features a number of different games and activities that will help your children share in the observation of Lent, regardless of how young they may be. 

Meatless Lenten Recipes
Features a large number of recipes for meatless meals that can add some diversity to your family’s Lenten menu.

 Homily from the Mass celebrated by Bishop Dougherty
on the Occasion of the 40th Anniversary of Humanae Vitae

“The family and the Church, specifically the parishes and the other forms of ecclesial community, are called to the most profound collaboration in that fundamental task that is constituted, inseparably, by the formation of the person and the transmission of the faith. We know well that for an authentic educational endeavor to take place, it is not

enough to communicate a correct theory or doctrine. Something far greater and more human
is needed—that closeness, lived daily, which is proper to love and that finds its most
propitious space above all in the family community, and afterwards in a parish or movement
or ecclesial association. . .” (Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the Congress of the Diocese of Rome, June 6, 2005).