Lenten Sacrifices

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Hi everyone 🙂

Can I please get some suggestions?! A week and a half into Lent and I cannot think of anything to offer up for penitential Friday’s and for the Lenten season. I am vegan, so that is why I need a Friday offering. Normally I would just fast on Fridays, however, I am also pregnant, so I can’t do that at this time. Because I am pregnant, I already have limited to no coffee (a frequent suggestion) and of course alcohol, and I do not drink soft drinks at all. I rarely eat desserts, and I do not spend copious amounts of time on the internet, except for what I need to do for schooling the other children. So, I am at a loss for the “fast” part of prayer, fast, alms. My life is already pretty boring and limited LOL 😃 ! My husband travels all week, I school, cook, and clean. I don’t have a lot spare time for vices . I don’t even watch t.v. except 1 show that comes on weekly (which is DVR’d and I don’t get to until sometimes days later!).

So anyway, I would love to hear some suggestions, things that I have not thought of, which I am sure are plenty, as I also have pregnant brain right now 😛

Thanks to all!
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Does it necessarily have to be something you give up? I’m just an ‘almost catholic’, so I have to ask.

Instead of limiting yourself further - which a strictly vegan pregnancy makes me worry to start with…

You could do something that takes your time and energy in a way you don’t normally do.

You could volunteer at a women’s shelter or soup kitchen. You could read to the elderly at a nursing home or volunteer at a children’s hospital - spending time with kids that don’t have family to visit them. You could write letters to soldiers serving overseas. You could pack sack lunches and hand them out to homeless.

There are hundreds of ways to give of yourself to help people less fortunate than you.

Peace
 
You can make every attempt to give up any sins:
a) gossip
b) lust
c) laziness
d) etc.

You can make an attempt to pray more:
  1. read the daily readings
  2. find today’s LOTH and do it today
  3. pray the Rosary
  4. pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy
  5. Make time to try contemplative prayer
 
I like Marauder’s suggestions of more prayer. In the spirit of “giving up”, what about setting your alarm 10 minutes earlier and get up and say a rosary. That way you would be giving up some sleep and adding prayer.
 
Do an extra hour of Eucharistic Adoration and plan to say the Chapelet of Devine Mercy at 3PM if possible. (or another time if not.) Make plans to serve others in need.
 
mountee said:
I like Marauder’s suggestions of more prayer. In the spirit of “giving up”, what about setting your alarm 10 minutes earlier and get up and say a rosary. That way you would be giving up some sleep and adding prayer.
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She’s gonna be losing enough sleep in the 3rd trimester, not to mention the next 18 yrs.
 
You could always try adding extra prayer if you can find time,
 
Well, you can give up something like coffee if you drink it or you can make a vow to do something, such as volunteering. That’s what I am doing I gave up smoking (hopefully forever) and I am going to be more active in my personal life. Hope this helps God bless 🙂
 
Since my wife didn’t give up anything I gave up 2 things
  1. eating after dinner, this is a sacrifice for me since I usssaly stay up past midnight reading…
  2. Facebook, I spend way to much time looking at it
 
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