PRAY
Ask your friends in heaven to pray for you.
We have lots of friends in heaven and we can ask them to pray for us. This week, make your daily prayer a litany of the saints. Gather as a family and say out loud the names of some of your favorite saints. Write these names down and make it your litany. Every day try to add a new saint to your list.
For example:
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us
St. Ignatius, pray for us
St. Cecilia, pray for us
St. Mark, pray for us
St. Francis, pray for us
St. Teresa, pray for us
(add any others), pray for us
Amen.
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FAST
Live simply so your heart can focus on what matters.
Choose simplicity and discover how blessed you already are.
Lent invites us to live more simply. To remove the distractions and temptations from life so that we can live more fully. When we live more simply we are happier, healthier and less worried and stressed. When we live more simply we free ourselves from things that we want so that others can have what they need to live.
Try it out. Fast from eating out and spending money this week. Make meals together at home and spend time together instead of money. Be creative and see what kinds of ideas pop into your head.
Live simply this week so that you can see how blessed and loved you are by God.
GIVE
Let love show in small, concrete ways.
Share kindness at home and in your community.
• Write a note to someone special and tell them what they mean to you. Put it on their pillow before bedtime or send it in the mail.
• Bake something special for someone. Think of a friend, relative or neighbor who would be happily surprised by some cookies, muffins, or a cake. Bake it for them and ask your parents to help you drop it off at his/her house.
• Say one nice thing to the people in your house before going to bed. Pick a time before everyone goes to bed and meet in the living room, kitchen or hallway. Gather in a circle and take turns saying one nice thing about each person. (Nice or pretty does not count) go deeper and think of what makes each person special and tell them.
• Hold hands and pray the guardian angel prayer.