Perspectives of a Wanderer

Feb 25 2009

The Lenten Season is Upon Us

Published by peregrinus at 12:00 am under Spirituality

We are now in another Lenten Season and many are talking about what they are giving up. I prefer to talk about what I will be adding instead of subtracting.

For me, I will hopefully be doing some the following:

Increasing my prayer life. Currently, I have been limiting it to Lauds, Vespers, and Compline in the Liturgy of the Hours plus a few other prays. I plan of adding the Office Readings, and a number of additional prayers each day. What yet I have not selected, but it will be a different set of prayers, along with the Rosary each day.
Make at least two holy hours a week. I have been remiss on this and need to start fulfilling my promise to do this.
Going to confession more frequently, not when it is necessary.
Attend Weekday Mass at least once a week.
Look into the various indulgences and avail myself of them.
Increase my spiritual reading. I have a backlog of both that I have and want to get. Lent is a good time to decrease that backlog.

These are just the top six on my list. There are others, but these are a good start.

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2 Responses to “The Lenten Season is Upon Us”

# Deborah (BeeSweet!)on 25 Feb 2009 at 10:02 pm

Increasing one’s offerings in works and prayer should accompany our penitential sacrifices, but are too often overlooked altogether. In our harried busy lives, time can be the greatest sacrifice of all. A great gift to God! Have a blessed Lenten season.
# peregrinuson 28 Feb 2009 at 10:36 pm

The also been marginalized by those who “give up things for Lent but” but go back to them as soon as Easter arrived. To me, it is just as shallow as “New Years Resolutions”.

What I am doing, I plan on continuing after Lent is long gone.