Thursday, March 31, 2011

Lenten Prayers and Devotions

Here are ways to boost your spiritual life during Lent:


*  Begin each morning with the prayer: "Lord, I offer you this day, and all that I  think, and do, and say."
*  Attend Daily Mass as often as possible.
*  Pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary.
*  Make the Stations of the Cross at home or in a parish celebration.
*  Read Scripture for 10 minutes every day.
*  Pray the Seven Penitential Psalms (Psalm 6, 31, 50, 101, 129 and 142).
*  Spend some time in quiet prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.
*  Abstain from meat for an extra day or two each week.
*  Listen to spiritual music or a spiritual speaker.
*  Keep a Lenten journal with your spiritual insights, special intentions, people you want    to pray for, hurts and disappointments that you want to offer up, and progress reports on your Lenten resolutions.

"May Lent be for every Christian a renewed experience of God's love given to us in Christ, a love that each day we, in turn, must 're-give' to our neighbor, especially to the one who suffers most and is in need." - Pope Benedict XVI