Books for Lent
Make the most of your Lenten experience with seasonal books from Loyola Press. | |
 | Sacred Space for Lent 2025Sacred Space for Lent invites readers to develop a closer relationship with God during this season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. What we know and trust about the Sacred Space online prayer experience is now available in a compact print format to heighten our Lent prayer practice in a way that is accessible, engaging, and meaningful to daily life.Learn more |
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The Life of JesusThis innovative book weaves together the four Gospels with the writings of Pope Francis to give readers an encounter with Jesus that focuses on love, mercy, and redemption. |
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Lenten Meditations 10-Pack: Growing in Friendship with GodThis Lent, come to know Jesus, rather than just know about Jesus. From Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday, renowned spiritual director William A. Barry, SJ, offers daily reflections that help you enter into a personal and genuine Lenten prayer practice. Step by step and day by day, you will grow towards a more meaningful experience of the Paschal Mystery as you walk with Jesus through the events of Holy Week and Easter Sunday. |
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The Ignatian Workout for Lent: 40 Days of Prayer, Reflection, and ActionA follow-up to his wildly popular The Ignatian Workout, Tim Muldoon applies the principles of discernment, reflection, and action to guide readers to grow in love and transform their Lenten experience. This bite-sized volume provides forty brief exercises—organized according to the four “weeks” of prayer from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius—and can be used by anyone during Lent to help readers become both hearers and doers of the Word of God. |
 | Praying Lent: Renewing Our Lives on the Lenten JourneyPraying Lent reminds the reader that if we focus too much on what we give up we may miss the message of what God wants to give us during this grace-filled time. |
 | Station to Station: An Ignatian Journey through the Stations of the CrossThis Ignatian exploration of the Stations of the Cross examines Jesus’ response to his own suffering and how his reactions can guide us in difficult times. |
 | Days of Deepening Friendship: For the Woman Who Wants Authentic Life with GodIn forty short chapters, ideal for daily Lenten reflection, Days of Deepening Friendship guides women to explore their unique relationship with God through prayer, imagination, action, and reflection. |
 | Mercy in the CityKerry Weber decided to commit 40 days to practicing the seven Corporal Works of Mercy in a meaningful way. But a big question remained: Could she do it? |
 | The Stations of the Cross BookletThe Stations of the Cross Booklet is a simple resource with visuals to help children walk through the journey of Jesus Christ during Lent. |
 | The Haunted CathedralThis second book in the Harwood Mysteries finds Xan solving a new mystery, this one set during the Church’s observance of Lent. Read this historical fiction book with middle schoolers. Accompanying activities are available for download. |