Make Lent More Meaningful

To make lent more meaningful, may I suggest:

• Begin each morning with the prayer: "Lord, I offer you this day and all that I think, and do and say."
• Attend daily mass as often as possible.
• Pray the sorrowful mysteries of the rosary.
• Make the stations-of-the-cross at home or in a parish celebration
• Read scripture for 10 minutes every day.
• Pray the seven penitential psalms (psalm 31, 37, 9, 50, 101, 129 & 142).
• Spend some time in quiet prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.
• Abstain from eating meat an extra day or two each week.
• Listen to spiritual music or a spiritual speaker.
• Keep a lenten journal with your spiritual insights, special intentions, people you want to pray for, hurts and disappointments that you want to offer up and progress reports on your lenten resolutions

Try to follow these actions and if you do the rest will fall into place.

Jesus himself will remove whatever corruption has stuck within you and you will begin to bear the fruit he desires.