Daily Calendar and Special Events for Lent

We look forward to entering the Lenten Season with these special events.

Please contact the Office of Mission & Ministry at (914) 632-2632 for more information on any of the programs listed on this page.

Daily Mass

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday at 12:15 p.m., Blessed Edmund Rice Chapel
Tuesday at 5 p.m., 6th Floor North Res. Hall

Operation Rice Bowl

Deepen your Lent by doing Operation Rice Bowl!

Operation Rice Bowl is a way to give to our neighbors who are suffering from poverty. 75% of the total funds collected during Lent will support Catholic Relief Services’ programs around the world, while the remainder will be given to a local soup kitchen. $1 a day for 40 days of Lent means: 1 month of food for a family, 2 years of seed for a farmer, or 3 months of clean water for 4 families.

Stand in solidarity with the world’s poor by giving of yourself this Lent.

Please pick up your Rice Bowl after Ash Wednesday Mass services or in the Office of Mission & Ministry. Please return the Rice Bowls to the Office of Mission & Ministry by April 13, 2023. Thank you for your support!

Special Events for Students

Retreat for Busy People

Retreatants meet with a guide of your choosing for about 30 minutes or so at a mutually agreed upon time. Retreatants are given a booklet that offers readings from scripture for each day of Lent, as well as some points and questions for reflection. You are invited to find some time alone to read and reflect on the readings and the questions. When you meet with your guide, you share together how the readings spoke to you. The questions can generate a conversation between the two of you that can be beneficial for both of you. Each session ends with a prayer.

This year's retreat will be held between Sunday, February 26 and Friday, March 3.

Contact Father Gerard for more information.

Spirituality Group

Join your fellow Gaels in conversation about deepening one’s faith!

March 9, March 23, April 6, and April 20
12:30 to 1:30 p.m., End Zone
For more information, please contact Laura Fairchild at lfairchild@iona.edu.

Highlighted Events

Ash Wednesday Schedule, February 22

Mass: 12:30 p.m.
Prayer Services: 2, 3, 6 & 9:30 p.m.
Burke Lounge, Spellman Hall

Stations of the Cross

April 5, Noon, St. Columba Statute

Iona students re-enact the story of the Passion of Jesus. Student clubs and organizations offer a prayer at each station as participants walk through campus. The Stations of the Cross is a Lenten devotion that offers witness to Jesus’ Passion and Death.

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