In case you haven’t done something yet for Lent, here are a few daily suggestions.
- Reconnect with someone who was responsible for generating the faith in you.
- Pray in a special way to the Blessed Mother.
- Do something loving for someone who is sick.
- Do something constructive to rescue someone trapped in sin.
- Give counsel to the doubtful.
- Bear a wrong that you experience today patiently.
- Give comfort to someone who is afflicted.
- Make the Stations of the Cross.
- Say “I am sorry” to someone who is alienated from you.
- Give alms to the needy person or organization.
- Buy someone a meal or something to drink.
- Spend 30 minutes in total silence.
- Spend 15 minutes or more praying the Holy Name of Jesus.
- Offer your day for the intentions of another person whose name you keep in mind all day.
- Carry around a funeral prayer card and pray for that person all day.
- Skip a meal or part of one.
- Visit an elderly person.
- Do something concrete to help the poor.
- Spend 10 minutes slowly meditating on the Our Father.
- Sacrifice some ordinary comfort or convenience today.
- Pray with special insistence for the most pressing petitions in your life.
- Make a gesture of reconciliation with someone from whom you are alienated.
- Do something kind for someone who does not like you.
- Listen to someone you would otherwise pass by or ignore.
- Do some extraordinary kindness to someone who would never expect it.
- Pray and offer some sacrifice for the Pope and our Bishop.
- Spend ten minutes praying before the Blessed Sacrament.
- Go to Confession.
- Volunteer in a shelter, a soup kitchen, or a learning center.
- Give away some of your belongings.
- Point out to another his or her virtue.
- Clean up someone else’s mess without saying anything.
- Pray for and give alms to the missions.
- Fast from television, I-Pod, internet, computer or other amusement.
- Console someone who is grieving.
- Offer your day for someone who has fallen away from the faith.
- Do something kind for someone you love, or better, someone you don’t love.
- Send a thank you note to someone to whom you owe a debt of gratitude.
- Do something kind for those in prison.
– Fr. Gerard Gordon