The Evangelizing Excitement of Ashes: Reconnecting with Young Adults from Ash Wednesday through Lent from family ideas for lent Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 36 min 47 sec
✓ Published: 15-Jan-2020

Description:
As strange as it might sound, “the most wonderful time of the year” for evangelization and outreach to young adults—especially those on the margins and those who have disconnected from their faith community—is actually Lent. Studies show that Ash Wednesday and Lenten practices draw young adults in their 20s and 30s, including the disaffiliated, to Church in record numbers. It is a wonderful opportunity to reconnect and accompany those young men and women in the spirit of Pope Francis’s