Lent is a special time for Christians, a journey of 40 days of preparation to live with depth the Holy Week and Easter. It is a time of reflection, conversion and openness of heart.
This year, for the Hijas de Jesus, Lent takes on an even more profound meaning as we continue to prepare for the 19th General Congregation (GC XIX). We want to live this time united in prayer, asking the Holy Spirit to guide this process with wisdom and availability.
How do we walk this Lenten pathway?
For this, we have prepared a spiritual roadmap that will allow us to intensify our prayer for GCXIX. Each week we will be sharing:
✅ A paragraph from the prayer for the 19th GC.
✅ The Gospel for each Sunday of Lent.
✅ An invitation from St. Candida Maria de Jesus in relation to the Word.
✅ A concrete recommendation to help us live our faith in daily life.
In connection with the ecclesial horizons
This Lenten journey is an opportunity to allow ourselves to be transformed by the Word of God, to strengthen our hope and to open our hearts to the action of the Spirit. Together, as a community, we want to walk towards Easter in an attitude of discernment and prayer.
Pope Francis’ Message for this Lent 2025, entitled “Let us journey together in hope,” invites us to live this Lenten season enriched by the grace of the Jubilee Year to dwell more deeply into what it means:
To walk
together
in hope
And discovering the calls to conversion which the mercy of God is addressing all of us, both personally and as a community. The Pope emphasizes the importance of recognizing our vital situation as pilgrims and of walking together towards the encounter with the Risen Christ.
Our Lenten journey is integrated into this ecclesial horizon, seeking to renew our commitment to be bearers of hope in our community and beyond.
A time of grace and transformation
Today, we pray in a special way with the entire prayer for the 19th GC and we prepare ourselves to be docile to what God intends to do in us and through us on this journey.
We pray for the Congregation
We pray to you, Father, for the Daughters of Jesus,
in this time of the General Congregation.
Grant us to be docile to the Spirit,
the grace of discernment
which invites us to examine the paths we have traveled
and to choose what today would give more life to this Body in Mission.
Bless us with the gift of true listening:
to receive with reverence your Word in prayer,
in the voices that come to us from the wounds of the world
and in the sharing of each sister.
Give us your wisdom to be new wineskins,
flexible and open,
to receive the new wine that transforms
our vulnerability into possibility
and our longings
into greater vitality for the charism.
May Mary be the Star of our paths,
as she was for St. Candida Mary of Jesus.
We will make with Jesus a path of hope
together with all those who try a new way of being human,
of being Church and of being brothers and sisters.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit…
We invite you to join us in this itinerary of prayer and preparation. Let us walk together towards Easter, praying for GCXIX and preparing our hearts for this time of grace.
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