The Joy of Sacrifice.
Allow Lent to be the intense season of Spiritual Renewal and Earthly Desert that it is meant to be. Throughout the Season of Lent we as a Parish will have so many incredible resources for you. Every Monday there will be a Holy Hour coupled with group prayer and prayer ministry that will be the sort of practicum for the book study we will have on Thursdays. We will be reading and studying together the new book by Dr Brandt Pitre, Introduction to the Spiritual Life.
Dry January?
It seems to me that the concepts of Dry January and Meatless Monday are praiseworthy in concept, but misguided in practice. It is good for a person to practice things of self mastery and self denial such as fasting and Abstinence. Yet, it is more powerful when practiced for a sound reason. Fasting from alcohol after overconsumption, while good is not ideal. Abstaining from meat for the sake of creation is good, but not ideal. Catholic have had practices like this for millennia.