Join Us for The Chosen for Lent!

Lent is 40 day season of prayer, fasting and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday (2/22/23) 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, serve by giving alms; and practice self-control through fasting.  During Lent, we are called to a true inner conversion of heart, as we seek to follow Christ's will more faithfully.

This year we bring you The Chosen: Following Jesus Then & Now  as a way to focus ourselves on Christ during this Lenten season.  The Chosen is a video series about the people who surrounded Jesus - sinners who spent time with the one Man who understood them & would eventually die for them.  Their story is ours.  You'll meet the people who loved Him, served Him, & followed Him, seeing the Savior through their eyes as you consider who He is & why He came.
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We invite you to join us each Thursday evening beginning February 9th (we realize that's before Ash Wednesday) from 6:30-8pm in the Parish Center at Sacred Heart Church to watch The Chosen as a parish community.  After each episode, we'll break into small groups for a brief discussion led by Judy Pyke and fellow parishioners. 
We'll gather for 8 weeks, ending the week before Holy Week, so we can see all 8 episodes of
​season 1 of The Chosen and be ready to enter into Holy Week with a true conversion of heart. 
We invite you to arrive early each week to enjoy some pizza, salad and a beverage!

No need to register.  Just Come and Join Us!
Want a sneak peek?  Watch the Trailer Here!

Questions? 
Contact Patty Sanfilippo,
Director of Evangelization
and Lifelong Formation, at psanfilippo@divinemercynorthshore.org
​ or 847-446-0856.

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