During Lent it is so very important to make meaningful personal sacrifices – smaller ones as well as bigger ones. We make personal sacrifice or “do penances” in order to align our hearts more perfectly to God.
There are many ways we might sacrifice daily throughout these special 40 days:
- reducing amounts of food at meals – e.g. one helping, 1/2 dessert, water only to drink
- remaining silent and smiling when the food served is not a favorite
- living punctuality – this is an especially hard challenge for me with people and issues I find more difficult
- keeping guard over our imagination.
- letting someone else decide what is done and where to go.
- forgoing having to get in the last word
- less time looking at screens and more time interacting directly with people
