Any Penance Ideas for Me?

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Hi. The Blessed Mother in her Fatima apparitions mentioned that we should all do penance. I am interested in doing more penance and would appreciate any ideas you might have on penances I can do throughout the day. Would you please suggest to me some ideas (besides doing the Church fast)? Thanks!
 
Great topic and question. Maybe to get the ball rolling.

-Wake up 5 minutes earlier and pray for all souls, with a smile
-Take faster showers, turn off water while soaping up
-Smile more
-Leave off the jam from your toast
-Forgo sugar in your coffee
-Leave the parking spot up close to you building for someone else
-Drive more generously
-Take the stairs
-Fight against interior complaint
-No seconds of food. Eat the food you like least first.
-Hold your tongue in a meeting unless it’s really necessary to talk.
-Answer email more promptly; return emails with a cheerful and sincere voice
-Send a nice letter to a friend
-Accept difficult work without complaint, eagerly, cheerfully
-Do your work very well, putting a bit more love into to it than you care to.

Do all the above in conversation with God; do them with Him.

Just some potential ideas. Others?
 
This is a question you should address to your spiritual director/confessor, it is very important to have some guidance from a qualified person when performing penitential acts.
 
Thanks for the awesome ideas, Edward!

Yes, Advocatus Fidei, I’m meeting with my spiritual director next weekend and will bring up the topic of Fatima and any penances he thinks I can do. Thanks!
 
Advocatus Fidei is quite right. Run it all by your director first and often.
 
Some of these (from another thread I answered a while back) overlap with EdwardH, but here you go anyway:

You can fast from entertainment (TV, music, Internet), you can sleep without a pillow, you can leave the air conditioning off in your car when you are alone, you can wait a few minutes to put on a sweater when you are chilly, you can leave the good parking spaces for someone else and park far away from your destination, you can leave your uncomfortable shoes on for a while after you get home, you can sit in the uncomfortable chair so others can use the couch.

At meals, you can eat more of the foods that are not your favorites and less of your favorites, you can leave off salt and pepper or condiments, you can take the least attractive serving of food on the platter so you leave the better ones for others, you can eat whatever is set before you without expressing a preference.

In your relations with others, you can take every opportunity to humble yourself. You can keep clever comments to yourself, you can omit telling the perfect joke, you can make sure you never interrupt, you can smile and give your time to those who irritate you, you can do little acts of service for people without calling attention to them.

Hope you find something helpful here!

Betsy
 
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