Hallow’s Lent Pray40 Community Prayer Challenge for 2025
This Lent, Hallow will once again launch its Lent Pray40 prayer challenge, beginning on Ash Wednesday.
Past Pray40 Challenges
Last year, Pray40 focused on the book He Leadeth Me, the powerful story of Fr. Walter Ciszek.
We walked through the life-changing, spiritual classic He Leadeth Me, written by Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J. Fr. Walter, a Jesuit priest and missionary, was imprisoned for more than 20 years in the Soviet Union, first in solitary confinement and then in a Siberian worker camp. Amidst some of the most brutal conditions imaginable, Fr. Walter underwent a profound spiritual journey. In fear, he found hope. In confinement, he surrendered his life to God.
In 2023, the Imitation of Christ inspired Pray40.
Daily readings from the 15th century book, written by monk Thomas a Kempis, were center to the Lenten prayer challenge. The book, which influenced the lives of countless saints over the centuries, is equally powerful today.
In 2022, Hallow’s Pray40 challenge focused on the Seven Last Words of Christ.
These seven “words,” which are actually sayings that contain multiple words, represent these seven themes: Forgiveness, Salvation, Relationship, Abandonment, Distress, Triumph and Reunion. They helped us keep our prayer focused on Jesus’s time on the cross, fixed on the incredible sacrifice He made for us.
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Excerpt(s) from HE LEADETH ME by Walter J. Ciszek, S. J. with Daniel L. Flaherty, S. J., copyright © 1973 by Walter J. Ciszek. Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.