The Portland Peninsula & Island Parishes will hold a Lenten women's retreat on Saturday, March 22, at St. Peter Church, 72 Federal Street in Portland.

Making a pilgrimage to a Holy site during the Jubilee year grants a plenary indulgence, where one’s sentence in purgatory is completely erased! The Sacraments of Confession and the Eucharist must also occur, and prayers for the intentions of the Holy Father. Our parishioners have 3 options for pilgrimages this year! The first is March 15th where we will travel to Lewiston and visit the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul. We will receive a tour of the Basilica, then partake in the Sacrament of Confession and go to 4pm Mass. The cost is $17. All are welcome! See www.stthereseparishmaine.org/jubilee or www.stmatthewlimerick.org/jubliee for more information!

Holy Cross School students will present the Living Stations of the Cross on Good Friday at 10:30 a.m. at the Church of the Holy Cross in South Portland.

Families of all ages are welcome to attend Lenten Prayer & Pretzels, a Faith & Family Gathering in the Sacred Heart Church Hall, 5 Summer Street in Hallowell.

Stations of the Cross, a Lenten devotion that follows the 14 steps that Jesus took to Calvary, beginning with the Garden of Gethsemane and concluding when he is laid in the tomb, will be prayed in many parishes across the diocese on the Fridays of Lent. 

St. Michael Parish will hold a healing service and anointing of the sick at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Augusta on Sunday, February 23, at 2 p.m.