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The Lenten journal references a "Values Handbook" - it can be downloaded here in 3 parts: Part I, Part II, Part III
We also will post reflections on our blog during Lent, and will post information about the "Day of Mercy" on April 1, 2026 at Mary, Queen of the Apostles parish in Salem, Massachusetts.
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We invite you this Lent to be transformed through FREED, our Lenten Program.
FREED leads you into real interior freedom by building on the primacy of grace and your concrete cooperation with it. It begins from the conviction that God’s gifts become fruitful in us when we freely accept them and choose to cooperate with them, so growth in virtue is relational, not merely willpower. We help you choose a set of Lenten Practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that are tied to virtues in faith, hope, and love to which you feel called to growth. But the goal of this Lenten Program is not flawless performance of these Lenten Practices. Instead its goal is a deeper transformation that God does through what those practices reveal - the interior resistance and discomfort that pulls us away from faith, hope, and love.
FREED explicitly teaches a “Push Reset” mindset – that failure to engage in our Lenten Practices is actually a privileged moment of grace. Instead of being told to “just try harder,” you’ll learn to notice the struggle, return to prayer, acknowledge you cannot do it on your own, and ask God for healing and strength right where the chains still tug. The fruit for you will be a Lent marked by clarity about what needs healing and a renewed freedom to be love.
FREED culminates in a Day of Mercy – of confession, adoration, and healing prayer – which we hope you will find so transforming that in our final exercise of Lent, a deliberate act of gratitude and thanksgiving, you can truthfully say, “Look what God has done.”
We hope that Jesus will heal and transform you, invigorating your will to love.