Saturday in the First Week of Lent

We pray through the classic openings of the Divine Office, make the Morning Offering, and then guide a mid-Lent check-in to adjust disciplines with mercy and clarity. We close with brief invocations and invite you to choose practices that foster real love of God and neighbor.

• opening prayers invoking the Trinity
• Morning Offering through Mary’s heart
• questions to assess Lenten disciplines
• guidance to adjust without guilt
• examen steps for clarity and peace
• closing invocations to the Sacred Heart and Our Lady
• reminder to choose charity over rigidity

If you found this time of prayer and reflection fruitful and would like more opportunities to grow in your faith this Lent, consider joining the Cristeros and purchasing our Lenten Reflection booklet, now available on Amazon.com
The Cristeros app is available on the Apple app and Google Play Store
More information on the Cristeros can be found at the Cristeros.org

Transcript

Opening Prayers Of Lent

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Saturday, in the first week of Lent, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day, in union with the holy sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, for the remission of my sins, for the intentions of my family and friends, and in particular for the intentions of the Holy Father. Amen. It is good throughout Lent to have a personal check-in of sorts to see how things are progressing. How have your chosen Lenten disciplines been going? Have they been too much, too little, unrealistic? Do you need to adjust anything? If so, that is fine. We do not need to be beholden to disciplines that we undertook if they are not helping or worse, are hindering us in our relationship with the Lord. Prayerfully examine your conscience and lent thus far today, and adjust as needed. All that I have and all that I am, I give to your hands, Jesus, through the heart of Mary, your blessed mother. Amen. Sacred heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. If you found this time of prayer and reflection fruitful and would like more opportunities to grow in your faith this Lent, consider joining the Cristeros and purchasing our Lenten Reflection booklet, now available on Amazon.com. The Cristeros app is available on the Apple app and Google Play Store. More information on the Cristeros can be found at the Cristeros.org.