Lenten Resources

Prayer & Fasting Opportunities:

Parish Fasting Sign Up:
This Lent, we want to unite the prayer and fasting of our parishioners. In order to do this, we are inviting everyone to sign up for an extra day of fasting during this season of Lent to pray for the following intentions:
• For Bishop Boyea
• For our parish grouping (St. John the Baptist, Christ the King, and St. Joseph Ypsilanti)
• For the deeper healing and conversion of our parish

Please help us to pray for these intentions by signing up for a date here.

The Ascension Lenten Companion Devotional Discussion Group:
Lenten Devotional Discussion Group each Friday at 6 PM before Stations of the Cross.

Stations of the Cross:
Stations of the Cross will be held every Friday during Lent at 7 PM.

 

HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE

Palm Sunday (Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord):
• Saturday, April 1st: 5 PM Vigil
• Sunday, April 2nd: 9 AM (Live Streamed) and 11 AM

Holy Thursday (Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper):
• Thursday, April 6th: 6 PM
Followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle of repose in the Gathering Space until midnight.
• 
Food Pantry is cancelled

Good Friday (Friday of the Passion of the Lord):
• Friday, April 7th: 3 PM
• Stations of the Cross: 7 PM
• All Night Adoration is cancelled

Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil):
• Saturday, April 8th: 8:30 PM Vigil

Easter Sunday (The Resurrection of the Lord):
• Sunday, April 9th: 9 AM (Live Streamed) and 11 AM

Harvey hall will be available for overflow seating at all Easter Sunday Masses.
Any regular Mass or confession times for Friday and Saturday not listed have been cancelled.

 

Other Recommended Resources

Ascension’s Lenten Companion 2023, Fr. Mark Toups
Restore: A Guided Lent Journal for Prayer & Meditation, Sr. Miriam James Heidland SOLT
Lenten Healing, Ken Kniepmann