Lent

Dominic Montpetit fondly recollects running the 42-kilometre marathon at the Great Canadian Death Race near Grand Cache, Alta., alongside his brothers and Bishop Mark Hagemoen of Saskatoon in 2022.

Most of us learn faith through practices. We learn how to pray, fast, give, confess, discipline ourselves. These practices matter. They steady lives that might otherwise dissolve into distraction and noise.

Lent does not arrive with fanfare or confetti like other feasts in the year do. It arrives quietly, traced in ash, in repentance, and anchored in 40 deliberate days that feel almost stubborn in their simplicity.

After a powerful turnout last year left collaborative hearts renewed, St. Basil's Parish and the University of St. Michael's College Campus Ministry are bringing back 24 Hours for the Lord this Lent, giving Toronto's faithful another unique chance to unite in continuous adoration as a community.

Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish’s annual Lenten retreat from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST on March 7, is a call to the well.

In his Lenten message, St. Catharines Bishop Gerard Bergie urges the faithful to “live the beatitudes” daily.

Development and Peace-Caritas Canada has officially launched its Share Lent 2026 campaign, giving faithful across the country another chance for prayer, education, donations and solidarity with the Global South.

“Forty days of pure bliss? How great!” This is a likely comment shared between a Lactobacillus acidophilus bacterium in your gut to another microbe.

Beneath the Roman pines of the Aventine Hill, Pope Leo XIV led a solemn penitential procession Feb. 18 to Rome's oldest extant basilica, marking the first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate.

On Ash Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to seek "the gift of true conversion" this Lent, calling for an intense spirit of prayer and a conversion of heart as the 40-day penitential season begins.