40 Voices from around the World for 40 Days: Antonio Viola, scj and Marco Mazzotti, scj #Italy.
Take two minutes each day and listen who offers you a message as a gift for Lent.
Six Dehonian Communities Gather in Bologna in the Lenten Desert 2026
How can the aridity of suffering be transformed into a creative experience of love? It was around this question, guided by the figure of St. John of the Cross, that the communities of Bologna and Modena experienced their 2026 Lenten recollection.
The Ashes
Marked by the symbol of the ashes, Father Dehon, in his Ash Wednesday meditation, confronts us with our fragility to better call us to a penance of the heart and an outpouring of love toward the Sacred Heart. An essential guide for a holy beginning to the forty days of Lent.
Lenten Penance and the Synodal Journey
Messaggio of Pope Francis for Lent
The meaning of Lent
For the Church, the most important celebration of the year is Easter. That is why there is an extraordinary time of preparation that takes forty days. It is a period of forty days that begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with Palm Sunday.
The Dehonians of Northern Italy prepare for the XXIII Chapter
The various phases through which the preparation took place. The areas explored in the present situation and the prospects for the future. Expanded participation, the difficulties encountered, the questions that emerged, the proposals and a big obstacle: the pandemic. All of which are reflected in the Instrumentum laboris.
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