Lent at St Ann’s
Lent and Holy Week 2025 at St. Anne’s Catholic Church
📍 St. Anne’s Catholic Church, Kingston Hill
📅 Lenten Season: 5th March – 20th April 2025
As we enter this sacred season of Lent, we invite all parishioners to embark on a journey of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, preparing our hearts for the joy of Easter.
🕊 Ash Wednesday – 5th March
Begin Lent with the imposition of ashes as a sign of repentance and renewal.
⏰ Mass Times: 10:00 AM & 7:00 PM
🔹 A Day of Fasting & Abstinence (Fasting: ages 18-59, Abstinence from meat: 14+)
📖 The Lenten Journey – Parish Booklet
To support your Lenten reflections, St. Anne’s is offering the Lenten Journey Booklet, filled with daily scripture, prayers, and reflections. Get your copy at the church or download it from our website.
🙏 Lenten Observances at St. Anne’s
🔹 Stations of the Cross – Every Friday at 7:20 PM (after 7:00 PM Mass)
🔹 Lenten Reconciliation Service – Saturday, 5th April, 5:00 PM (followed by Vigil Mass)
🔹 Lenten Lantern Walk – Friday, 14th March, 7:30 PM (Outdoor reflection walk with lanterns)
🔹 Lenten Soup & Scripture Evenings – Simple meal and Lenten reflection after Stations of the Cross
🌿 Holy Week 2025
🔹 Palm Sunday – 13th April
📌 10:30 AM – Procession with palm branches, reenacting Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem
🔹 Maundy Thursday – 17th April
📌 7:00 PM – Mass of the Lord’s Supper & Adoration at the Altar of Repose
🔹 Good Friday – 18th April
📌 2:00 PM – Outdoor Way of the Cross
📌 3:00 PM – Passion Service
🔹 Holy Saturday & Easter Vigil – 19th April
📌 7:00 PM – Fire blessing, Paschal Candle procession & First Mass of Easter
🔹 Easter Sunday – 20th April
📌 10:30 AM – Resurrection Mass, followed by tea, coffee, cake & Panettone
🌟 Join us for this Lenten journey as we walk in faith towards the joy of the Resurrection.
📖 For more details and to download the Lenten Journey Booklet,
