I know I’m a day or two late in posting this, and I’m sure the good readers of this blog already have well-established plans of prayer, penance, and almsgiving during this most penitential season of the year, but in case you need some help, or want to consider doing a bit more here at the beginning of Lent, please review the attached worksheet from the St. Vincent Ferrer Foundation.
We should really have three points of emphasis during Lent: voluntary amendment of life, works of penance, and acts of charity. Charity could be corporal charity, but it could also be spiritual charity – praying another 5 decades of the Rosary, praying the Chaplet of the Holy Face daily (as Cardinal Burke requested), reading the Bible daily, spending more time with family, etc. Works of penance could be so arranged to amount to a voluntary amendment of life over the course of Lent, such as giving up a bad habit.
I hope you find the worksheet helpful. Even though I had already determined what I planned to do this Lent before seeing it, it was good to have a reminder that the acts I have planned do fulfill all the elements of Lenten sacrifice. The worksheet is here—–>>>>Lent-is-Coming