Lenten Schedule
Lent begins each year on Ash Wednesday, 46 days before Easter Sunday. This year Lent will begin on February 22nd, 2023, and if you are following the 40 days tradition, Lent will end on Holy Saturday, April 8th, 2023. The Lent season is a 6-week time of somber reflection and remembrance. Lent is traditionally a time of fasting and abstaining from something to repent and focus our hearts and minds on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Lenten Disciplines of Fasting & Abstinence Catholics in good health ages 18 to 59 are required to fast and abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Fasting consists of eating only one meal, with the possibility of two smaller snacks that do not add up to a single full meal. Catholics age 14 and older are to abstain from meat on all Fridays in Lent.
LENTEN SCHEDULE
RECONCILIATION SERVICE
Lenten Reconciliation Services at surrounding parishes
St. Paschal Baylon, Thousand Oaks - Tues., March 14 at 7pm
St. Joseph the Worker, Winnetka - Wed., March 15 at 7pm
St. Mel Catholic Church, Woodland Hills - Mon., March 20 at 7pm
St. Maximilian Kolbe, Oak Park - Tues., March 21 at 7 pm
St. Peter Claver, Simi Valley - Tues., March 28 at 7pm
Padre Serra, Camarillo - Wed., March 29 at 7pm
St. Bernardine of Siena, Woodland Hills - Thurs., March 30 at 7pm
Our Lady of Malibu - Tues., April 4 at 7pm
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Fridays at 7:30 pm
From Friday, February 24 to Friday, March 31
CONFESSIONS
All Wednesdays of Lent from 2 pm - 5pm
Saturdays 3 pm until 3:50 pm, and continues after the 4 pm Vigil Mass
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
HOLY THURSDAY
Mass of the Lord's Supper
April 6th at 7:30 pm
Good Friday
Proclamation of the Passion, Veneration of the Cross, and Communion Service
Friday, April 7th
Noon Mass
6 pm Mass
Holy Saturday
Vigil of Easter
Saturday, April 8th at 7 pm
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
Sunday, April 9th
8 am
10 am
Noon
(no evening mass)