Lent At-A-Glance

Peace Vigil & Sanctuary Dialogue:
Migrant Voices in the Pulpit
Thursday, February 22
6pm Peace Vigil in the ISLC
​7pm Sanctuary Dialogue in the ISLC
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Lenten Book Series with Fr. Ray
Finding God in All Things 
Wednesdays, February 28 and March 7, 14
7 - 8:30 pm 

Sanctuary: A Day of Retreat 
Sunday, March 25 
1:00pm - 5:00pm 
Ignatian Spiritual Life Center 

Lenten Taize Service 
Thursday, March 22 5:00pm
St. Ignatius Parish 

Lenten Holy Yoga
Mondays, March 19 & 26, April 2
7:00pm- 8:00pm
Ignatian Spiritual Life Center 

The Spirit of Lent

Lent is a time to consciously and intentionally allow ourselves to be scrutinized by the Spirit. We must have the courage to look honestly at who we are, what have done, and what we have failed to do. Not simply as an individual, but also as a community, and as a human family. Then, upon reckoning with what we see, we are hopefully profoundly moved to drop to our knees and say to our loving God, "Lord, I am so sorry. Please forgive me. Please forgive us." By joining with the Spirit in such a penetrating look at our interior, we allow God to breathe new life into us, to touch the jagged and tender wounds of our hearts, and to resurrect those parts of ourselves that have died bitterly from anger or quietly from neglect. 

​Sr. Joan Chittister offers this reflection: "Lent is the time to let life in again, to rebuild the worlds we’ve allowed to go sterile, to 'fast and weep and mourn' for the goods we’ve foregone. If our own lives are not to die from lack of nourishment, we must sacrifice the pride or the sloth or the listlessness that blocks us from beginning again. Then, as Joel (2:12-18) promises, God will have pity on us and pour into our hearts the life we know down deep that we are lacking."​

Lenten Programming 

​The prophet Joel invites us on Ash Wednesday to return to the Lord with our whole hearts.  This Lent, we will deepen into the theme of sanctuary and how we embody this value with our whole hearts, evermore becoming what we believe. 

Peace Vigil &
Sanctuary Dialogue: Migrant Voices in the Pulpit, San Francisco Interfaith Council on Immigration 
Thursday, February 22 - 6pm Peace Vigil, 7pm Sanctuary Dialogue 

Join us for an hour of silent prayer and witness on the church steps as we pray for Immigrant Justice.  Following the peace vigil, a guest speaker will share his or her experience of migration and invite us into deeper, critical reflection on how to accompany and advocate for immigrants and refugees as people of faith. 

Lenten Book Series with Fr. Ray ​
​Finding God in All Things
Wednesdays - February 28 and March 7, 14 from 7:00 - 8:00 pm

​​In this 3 week series, Fr. Ray will lead us in a discussion of William Barry's book, Finding God in All Things: A Companion To the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, offering insight into the meditations that compose the four "weeks" of the Spiritual Exercises and allowing all of us to cultivate and live out of a rich interior life.  Please RSVP to Grace@SaintAgnesSF.com  Books are for sale through the Spiritual Life Center for $11.  
Feb 28: discussion of chapters 1-4 (the "first week" of the Exercises)
March 7: discussion of chapters 5-9 (the "second week")
March 14: discussion of chapters 10-11 (the third and fourth "weeks)

POSTPONED 
Sanctuary: A Day of Retreat

Join us for a day of restoration and retreat as we pray with and explore the roots of sanctuary in our faith and lives.  The retreat will be led by parishioner, Will Simpson.  Please RSVP to Grace@SaintAgnesSF.com 

Lent Peace Vigil 
Thursday, March 22 - 5:00pm 
​St. Ignatius Parish 


We invite you to join the University of San Francisco and the Ignatian Spiritual Life Center for Taize on Thursday, March 22nd at 5pm at St. Ignatius Parish. Let us return to the Lord, gathered as one community to pray with music, silence, and meditation. We will pray in a special way for Sanctuary in our world, our city, and our hearts. 
QUESTIONS? Contact Grace Salceanu, ISLC Director at Grace@SaintAgnesSF.com.