2025 Lent at Nativity B.V.M.

Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter. During Lent, we seek the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scripture; we serve by giving alms; and we practice self-control through fasting (USCCB)

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​Lenten Resources
"Pope Francis' Message for Lent 2025 has as its theme, “Let us journey together in hope”. This year's Lenten season begins on 5 March, Ash Wednesday, and ends on 17 April, Holy Thursday.
 The Holy Father's Message is inspired by the Jubilee 2025 theme “Pilgrims of Hope”.
 “This Lent, as we share in the grace of the Jubilee Year, I would like to propose a few reflections on what it means to journey together in hope, and on the summons to conversion that God in his mercy addresses to all of us, as individuals and as a community,” Pope Francis writes.
 In his Message, the Holy Father underlines that to journey “evokes the lengthy journey of the people of Israel to the Promised Land” and adds that “a first call to conversion thus comes from the realization that all of us are pilgrims in this life”, as we reflected during World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2024."
Continue reading Pope Francis' 2025 Message here.
Weekend Mass Schedule:
Saturday Vigil: 5pm
Sunday: 7am, 8am, 10am * & Noon
* Live Streamed on YouTube

​Weekday Mass Schedule
Mon-Sat: 8am*
(9am on Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving)

Confession
Saturdays: 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Adoration Chapel
Monday-Friday 8:30am-8pm
Nativity Of the Blessed Virgin Mary
30 East Franklin Street,
Media, PA 19063
Telephone: 610-566-0185
Fax: 610-566-2873
Email: [email protected]
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Rectory Office Hours:
Monday-Friday: 9am-1pm
Sat & Sun: Closed
​Sunday parking options:
  • TD Bank Lot- NO PARKING
  • Cavanagh Funeral Home- enter off of Monroe St.
  • Nativity BVM Parish Center- enter off of Gayley St.
  • Nativity BVM (Lifeworks) School - enter off of Edgemont St.
  • Flagship Corporate Center Garage- enter off of Baltimore Pike
  • Baltimore Avenue Public Parking Garage- enter off of Olive St. or Baker St. 
  • On street parking -Franklin St., Monroe St., Gayley St., Church St.- please do not block crosswalks