First pillar
Prayer
“Go to your room and pray in secret.” — Matthew 6
More time with the Lord, and more honest. We listen in the silence, and let the desert do its quiet work on us.
Pray · the Sorrowful MysteriesThe forty days
Remember you are dust. Return with your whole heart.
A cross of ashes, and a long road through the wilderness. Lent is the Church's slow turning back — forty days of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that walk with Christ toward the Cross. Solua keeps the desert with you, one day at a time.
Lent begins Ash Wednesday, February 18 — forty days before Easter.
“Rend your hearts, and not your garments.” — Joel 2
Prayer · fasting · almsgiving
Three ways back to God.
From the Sermon on the Mount, the Church draws Lent's three disciplines — done quietly, in secret, for the Father who sees. Together they empty the heart and make room for grace.
Second pillar
Fasting
“Man does not live by bread alone.” — Matthew 4
We go without — meat on Fridays, the small comforts we lean on — so that hunger turns the heart back toward the One who fills it.
Keep · the Friday fastThird pillar
Almsgiving
“Do not let your left hand know.” — Matthew 6
What we set aside, we give away. Mercy made plain — to the poor, the forgotten, the near-at-hand — until our love costs us something.
Give · a daily act of mercyEvery Friday in Lent
The fourteen Stations of the Cross.
The oldest walk of the season — fourteen pauses along the Via Crucis, from the sentence of Pilate to the stone of the tomb. We make the way with Him, station by station.
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Jesus is condemned to death
Pilate washes his hands of the innocent.
- II
Jesus takes up his Cross
He accepts the weight that is ours to carry.
- III
Jesus falls the first time
The road begins to break Him, and He rises.
- IV
Jesus meets his Mother
Two hearts, one sorrow, on the way of pain.
- V
Simon helps carry the Cross
A stranger is pressed into mercy's work.
- VI
Veronica wipes his face
A small kindness, and His face remains.
- VII
Jesus falls the second time
Beneath the weight again, He does not stop.
- VIII
Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
“Weep not for me, but for yourselves.”
- IX
Jesus falls the third time
Spent and broken, love will not let go.
- X
Jesus is stripped of his garments
Stripped bare, He keeps nothing for Himself.
- XI
Jesus is nailed to the Cross
“Father, forgive them.” Mercy in the wound.
- XII
Jesus dies on the Cross
“It is finished.” The veil is torn in two.
- XIII
Jesus is taken down from the Cross
Laid in his Mother's arms, the world goes still.
- XIV
Jesus is laid in the tomb
The stone is rolled. We wait in the silence.
Lent, day by day
How Solua keeps the
desert with you.
Not forty days of willpower — a companion that keeps the fast, marks the Fridays, and walks you all the way to the empty tomb.
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The day's readings & a reflection
Each morning, the Lenten Mass readings and a short reflection — the season's call to conversion, carried into your day.
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Keep the fast together
Set your Lenten resolution and mark each day kept — meatless Fridays and all. A quiet practice the whole household can share.
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The Stations of the Cross, every Friday
Walk all fourteen stations — read aloud or prayed in silence — the way the Church has kept Lenten Fridays for centuries.
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The Sorrowful Mysteries, daily
From the Agony in the Garden to Calvary — the Rosary's Sorrowful Mysteries keep your prayer close to the Passion.
Keep a holy Lent.
Forty days through the wilderness, to the morning the tomb is found empty.
40
Days
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Stations
Apr 5
Easter
We gave up the same thing every year and forgot why. Now the children ask to pray the Stations on Friday — and Lent finally feels like Lent.
Daniel R.
Father of three · Ohio
Walk the forty days
this Lent.
Free to begin. Let Solua keep the fast with you — from the cross of ashes to the joy of Easter morning.
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