Update: Check out our 2025 Lent Challenge!

For many years, we have picked one thing to do during Lent together as a married couple — whether it’s a new spiritual practice, a book to read together, or something that we will both give up. And we’ve also seen the power of doing small things with great love in our marriage. During Lent, we try to do both!

So that’s the inspiration behind our Lent Challenge for Catholic Marriages, and why we are offering it for the fourth year in a row! It’s a simple way to keep your marriage a priority while doing something extra during Lent… and also focusing on the pillars of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.

What’s included

We provide a calendar of challenges and a supplemental guide (and this year, you can buy one or the other, or both!). For every day of Lent, we have a challenge for you to complete together — this year Lent is during February and March. Both the calendar and guide have the challenges, but the guide has more thoughts about each challenge and ideas on how to complete it.

The challenges range from fun to spiritual. There are many ways to connect and pray together, and we wanted to include as many of them as possible. Hopefully this Lent challenge will help you figure out which devotions and small acts of love you want to continue once Lent is over. More importantly, it will help you connect with your spouse each day of Lent!

Also included with the calendar is a blank calendar for February and March that you can use to keep track of your Lent commitments and events, or you can fill in challenges of your own (using our challenges too, if you’d like). 

As we always say with both our Lent and Advent challenges: don’t let these challenges stress you out. Yes, some of them may get you out of your comfort zone a little bit. But if you miss a day (or two…or three), just pick back up where you left off. The goal is to spend time together and pray together throughout the Lenten season. 

New this year – separate downloads!

This year, we’re offering the calendar and guide separately! We realize some people appreciate the brevity of the calendar, while others find the guide more useful. Feel free to buy one or the other… or both! Personally, we print out the calendar, laminate it, and put it in our bathroom as a daily reminder for each day’s challenge. Then we refer to the guide when we need some ideas. It is up to you on how you utilize these resources. Please let us know if you have any suggestions or comments! We would love to hear from you.

Note: These are all digital downloads. A physical product will not be mailed to you. After checking out, you will receive an email with a link to download the PDF.  Please do not share the file(s) with anyone. If you’d like to print multiple copies, please email us for licensing options. Thank you!

Visit our online shop here to purchase! All of the options for our Lent challenge are on the top row. Or click on the different buttons below…

We are praying these tools enrich your Lenten season together! If you’re not interested in our challenge but want ideas for Lent, check out our post: What Catholic couples can do during Lent.

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