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well folks! its the first day of lent today…how is everybody coping with their own personal lent giving up things or adding extra prayers devotions to their day?..is anyboby finding it easy or hard?..anybody already discouraged?..has it been hard fitting in your lent pledges in to your day?
 
I like to see your posittive spin on Lent. I just got an earful of,"we’re not allowed to have fun for 40 days now. " I decided to go to daily Mass during Lent. It’s amazing! I’ve been trying for months to get myself out of bed to attend the daily Mass, but with little success. I decided I would start on Monday this week instead of waiting until Wednesday. Monday and Tuesday I woke up without an alarm clock… Neither day did I feel miserably tired. Today I slept in because I have to sing the 7:00 p.m Mass.I’m sure it will get more difficult over time; but so far it reminds me of Christ’s statement that His yoke is easy and His burden light. God bless nyou during this holy season. Let’s pray for each other and see what God can do with us!
 
I’ve decided to give up coffee. That’s going well so far, but I’m already struggling with the whole “fasting on Ash Wednesday” thing. I want breakfast! Haha. What are you giving up?
 
crystal_waters said:
well folks! its the first day of lent today…how is everybody coping with their own personal lent giving up things or adding extra prayers devotions to their day?..is anyboby finding it easy or hard?..anybody already discouraged?..has it been hard fitting in your lent pledges in to your day?
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Well, for me, it has not been a good start. I have the flu…as does my family, ugh. I really do not want to miss ashes! O well, at least the fasting will be easy…
 
sarahq said:
I’ve decided to give up coffee. That’s going well so far, but I’m already struggling with the whole “fasting on Ash Wednesday” thing. I want breakfast! Haha. What are you giving up?
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this year im not giving up anything…i wanted to use this lent to pray more so im adding ALOT of prayers and devotions for the holy souls…and i have a notebook to carry around with me to keep count of what i have completed and what i still have to pray
 
QUOTE=dailey;7632314]Well, for me, it has not been a good start. I have the flu…as does my family, ugh. I really do not want to miss ashes! O well, at least the fasting will be easy…

i hope you and your family get well soon:bighanky:

offer up your flu and all the aches and sniffles for somebody or a prayer intention…even offer it up for the holy souls
 
Hecares said:
I like to see your posittive spin on Lent. I just got an earful of,"we’re not allowed to have fun for 40 days now. " I decided to go to daily Mass during Lent. It’s amazing! I’ve been trying for months to get myself out of bed to attend the daily Mass, but with little success. I decided I would start on Monday this week instead of waiting until Wednesday. Monday and Tuesday I woke up without an alarm clock… Neither day did I feel miserably tired. Today I slept in because I have to sing the 7:00 p.m Mass.I’m sure it will get more difficult over time; but so far it reminds me of Christ’s statement that His yoke is easy and His burden light. God bless nyou during this holy season. Let’s pray for each other and see what God can do with us!
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good luck with singing at the 7pm mass:D…what is the song you’ll be singing?
 
I’m giving up TV because I think it just plain melts your brain. I’m also going to try and say the Chaplet of Divine Mercy everyday at 3pm.

Easy now, gets harder in a couple of weeks. Pray for me!
 
It hasn’t been difficult fasting today. Perhaps because I woke up at 1pm though lol.

For Lent, I’m going to eat less rich foods and try say the Divine Mercy chaplet daily for souls in purgatory and friends/family who have no-one praying for them.

Also, www.ACCTS.org emails you daily during Lent with information about Afghanistan and a prayer for four different topics.

You don’t have to sign up though. You can see it all on their website I think.
 
m8g8 said:
It hasn’t been difficult fasting today. Perhaps because I woke up at 1pm though lol.

For Lent, I’m going to eat less rich foods and try say the Divine Mercy chaplet daily for souls in purgatory and friends/family who have no-one praying for them.

Also, www.ACCTS.org emails you daily during Lent with information about Afghanistan and a prayer for four different topics.

You don’t have to sign up though. You can see it all on their website I think.
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best of luck with praying for the holy souls!!!

maybe this link will inspire you through the 40 days

missionbell.homestead.com/Afavourgrantedbytheholysouls.html
 
Michael_C said:
I’m giving up TV because I think it just plain melts your brain. I’m also going to try and say the Chaplet of Divine Mercy everyday at 3pm.

Easy now, gets harder in a couple of weeks. Pray for me!
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make sure you have other things to do to occupy you during the times that you would have been watching tv…take walks, red spiritual books… www.tanbooks.com sells brilliand catholic books and they are almost dirt cheap, a real bargain…
 
It’s tough…I had a light breakfast, but I’m so used to snacking throughout the day! At least now I realize I have been a slave to my stomach. 🙂 I’m not going to give in. Each time I think of food, I’m going to redirect my thoughts and think of Christ instead.
 
Garyjohn2 said:
Each time I think of food, I’m going to redirect my thoughts and think of Christ instead.
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Oh, that’s a good idea. I get up at 5 a.m. and right now I am really hungry. I usually have two meals (breakfast and lunch) by now. I plan on going out and grabbing something light (like a yogurt) in a little bit so my blood sugar doesn’t drop too much (I don’t want to crash my car later today!)

I haven’t noticed my other sacrifices yet. I gave up sweets and desserts – I’ll start missing that in a few days I think. I also added reading scripture each night (as it relates to the mysteries in the Rosary). I will do that before I say the Rosary–which I usually do in the evening. I am really looking forward to reading my Bible tonight.
 
Garyjohn2 said:
It’s tough…I had a light breakfast, but I’m so used to snacking throughout the day! At least now I realize I have been a slave to my stomach. 🙂 I’m not going to give in. Each time I think of food, I’m going to redirect my thoughts and think of Christ instead.
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what did you eat for breakfast?😛
 
crystal_waters said:
what did you eat for breakfast?😛
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A little cereal and milk. Probably close to an actual “serving size”, which is way less that most people think! I’m not bragging, just saying those serving suggestions are actually rather small. 🙂
 
crystal_waters said:
this year im not giving up anything…i wanted to use this lent to pray more so im adding ALOT of prayers and devotions for the holy souls…and i have a notebook to carry around with me to keep count of what i have completed and what i still have to pray
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Yeah…I don’t think I’ll be giving up anything foodwise. Other life “endulgences” are sporadic at best.

I would like to pray more though. A lot more.

I already have such poor eating habits. I often forget to eat. And now that it’s Ash Wednesday, and 1130am, all I can think about is food. You know how it is, you always want when you can’t have, and when you can have it, you don’t want it anymore :rolleyes:

Not sure how I will handle my workdays though. On workdays, I get up at 3am, do some early chores, and if I don’t do that, I’m up by 4am, out the door by 5am, barely have time to think for the next 12-13 hours…and snarf down a meal provided by the facility I work at in about ten minutes, and don’t get home until at the very least 730pm or 8pm. It will be hard not to stay away from meat these fridays, unless I can remember to pack a lunch. Which will be a bit hard if I’ve done all the above on Thursday night…

I dunno, my chickens have been laying eggs like it’s nobody’s business, and I just collected 20 eggs yesterday :eek: maybe I’ll make some egg salad and bring some boiled eggs to work?

I don’t watch TV except to keep track of storms raging through…I only listen to the radio in the hour-long car rides while I’m tired…don’t really have a life really 😛 shall I give up doing laundry every day? 😛 Maybe I’ll give up caring for my mom and send her to a relative for Lent. Hahaha… Gahd, I’m so boring… 😦
 
Garyjohn2 said:
A little cereal and milk. Probably close to an actual “serving size”, which is way less that most people think! I’m not bragging, just saying those serving suggestions are actually rather small. 🙂
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Yeah that’s a good idea. In our house, our bowls of cereal are probably 4 times the recommended serving…
 
crystal_waters said:
good luck with singing at the 7pm mass:D…what is the song you’ll be singing?
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I sing with a choir. We sang the whole Mass. Of course we sang Ashes. I don’t remember what the other hymns were. Someone just handed me a list when I got there. I especially like singing the Psalms!
 
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