YouTube Clips
What is Lent?
8th March, 2011
This video provides background information on the significance of Lent and Ash Wednesday, and details some of the key practices associated with the liturgical season of Lent.
Ash Wednesday: Pope Explains Lent During the General Audience
9th March, 2011
In this video the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, explains the season of Lent as being a time of spiritual renewal and growing closer to God through pious acts: prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
The Pope Explains the Significance of Lent and Ash Wednesday
22nd February, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI describes the forty days of Lent as symbolic of Jesus' temptation-filled journey in the desert. The Pope suggests that Lent is a time to deepen our lives of faith and to draw nearer to God through prayer.