Lenten Prep We Prepare For Lent By Empting Ourselves Of Our
Sins
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Lenten Prep We Prepare For Lent By Opening Our Hands And
Receiving Gods Blessings/Graces
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Lenten Prep We Prepare For Lent By: Getting ready to hear and
heed what God wants to say to us.
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Lenten Prep The Church gives us three general directives in
this regard.
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Lenten Prep Fasting and Abstinence for Catholics in the U.S.
During Lent Abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and on all the
Fridays of Lent. They fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
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Lenten Prep Fasting and Abstinence for Catholics in the U.S. To
abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent
means to not eat meat on those days. It does not intend the
omission of eggs or dairy products. The required fast on Ash
Wednesday and Good Friday involves eating only one full meal on
those days. One or two smaller meals may be taken on those days,
but may not total one full meal. The required fast does not allow
eating anything between meals.
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Lenten Prep Fasting and Abstinence for Catholics in the U.S.
"All Catholics who have completed their fourteenth year are bound
by the law of abstinence; all adults are bound by the law of fast
up to the beginning of their sixtieth year. Nevertheless, pastors
and parents are to see to it that minors who are not bound by the
law of fast and abstinence are educated in an authentic sense of
penance." - Code of Canon Law, #1252
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Lenten Prep
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First, intensify our prayer life
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Lenten Prep First, intensify our prayer life Prayer nourishes
and strengthens our: Souls Will Spiritual Intellect Prayer: Is a
conversation with God Brings us in union with God Reveals Who God
is and who we are not Is looking to God, to explain ourselves Is
love
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Lenten Prep First, intensify our prayer life Start thinking now
about how you can do this. Start with the Gospels, Psalms, etc.
What are your prayer needs? Increase your Eucharistic prayer life
Give more discipline to your personal prayer time Inculcate family
prayer time Go on a retreat Attend Daily Mass more often Serve
others more vs. being served Give more of your time, talents, and
resources
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Lenten Prep First, intensify our prayer life God will put
something on your heart. Pray the life of your favorite saint; our
Patron Saint, Liturgy of the Hour, and stick with it. Pray for
discernment, to do Gods Will and not simply pray for God to show
you what to do. But be realistic. Dont let your eyes be bigger than
your stomach (in the spiritual sense).
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Lenten Prep First, intensify our prayer life Commitment to a
daily discipline of prayer, including some form of the Daily Office
with time for silence to listen as well as to speak to God.
Commitment to more frequent participation in corporate prayer, such
as participation in a weekday Eucharist, Stations of the Cross or
other Lenten devotions in the parish, and/or regular prayer with
other members of one's household.
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Lenten Prep Second, embrace the Cross - Daily
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Lenten Prep Second, embrace the Cross Lent is a penitential
season Its a time when we remember how self-centered we have been
and tend to be.
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Lenten Prep Second, embrace the Cross Lent is a penitential
season Its a time when we renew our commitments and efforts at
repenting and growing in Christian love.
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Lenten Prep Second, embrace the Cross Lent is a penitential
season Its the origin of our tradition of giving something up for
Lent. The idea is to make a sacrifice - by denying our natural
self-indulgent tendencies, in some way, in order to unite ourselves
more fully to Christs redeeming sacrifice on Calvary.
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Lenten Prep Second, embrace the Cross Lent is a penitential
season This is not merely a self-help kind of resolution.
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Lenten Prep Second, embrace the Cross Lent is a penitential
season It is a self-offering to God: Lord, many times I have chosen
to do my own will instead of yours. By offering this sacrifice I
want to learn to take up my cross, to say yes to you and your will,
and follow in Jesus footsteps.
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Lenten Prep Second, embrace the Cross Lent is a penitential
season You may want to give up: Watching too much sports/TV/movies
Eating unhealthy foods/deserts Gossiping about others My way or the
highway attitude
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Lenten Prep Second, embrace the Cross Lent is a penitential
season That is more than giving up something. Where we are Led by
the Holy Spirit to: Attend Mass, on a regular basics Attend
Eucharistic Adoration The Way of the Cross, as our Lenten sacrifice
Again, be realistic
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Lenten Prep Second, embrace the Cross Lent is a penitential
season Where we truly make Lent a Christ-centered life for
ourselves and for those whom we encounter.
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Lenten Prep Second, embrace the Cross Lent is a penitential
season When we truly remember who we are and Who we belong to.
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Lenten Prep Second, embrace the Cross Lent is a penitential
season When we truly remember who we are and Who we belong to.
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Lenten Prep Third, practice Christian Charity Lent is a time to
prepare for the fruitful celebration of the Lords Passion, Death,
and Resurrection as we move closer to Holy Week.
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Lenten Prep Third, practice Christian Charity As we remember
That the Paschal Mystery is Gods unfathomable and amazing testimony
of His love for us (sinners). There is no better way to get in tune
with that self- forgetful and self-sacrificial love than by
imitating it. That during Lent we should make a special point of
serving our neighbors. Daily, the Spiritual and Corporal Works of
Mercy.
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Lenten Prep Third, practice Christian Charity Works of Mercy
(CCC #2447) Spiritual Works of Mercy: Instructing, advising,
consoling, comforting, forgiving and bearing wrongs patiently.
Corporal Works of Mercy: consist especially in feeding the hungry,
sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and
imprisoned, and burying the dead.
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Lenten Prep Third, practice Christian Charity.
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Lenten Prep Third, practice Christian Charity Among all these,
giving alms to the poor is one of the chief witnesses to fraternal
charity: It is also a work of justice thats pleasing to God.
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Lenten Prep Third, practice Christian Charity Something in the
air of Lent will bring out new buds, new branches, new life in our
relationship with Christ; we just have to open up some
windows.
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Lenten Prep Third, practice Christian Charity The word Lent has
its etymological roots in an Old English word meaning spring.
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Lenten Prep Third, practice Christian Charity
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Lenten Prep What are your Lenten Plans?
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How will you greet others, during Lent?
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List Three Ways You Can Improve Your Call To Serve With Your
Co-Catechists
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The Seven Penitential Psalms These seven psalms have served as
a special source of prayer and reflection during Lent, for
centuries. The tone of their honest pleading is compelling and
invites us to turn to our Lord with the same candor and
desire.
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Lenten Prep The Seven Penitential Psalms A Prayer in Time of
Trouble Psalm 6 Psalm 38 Psalm 102
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Lenten Prep The Seven Penitential Psalms Trusting the LORD in
Time of Trouble Psalm 130
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Lenten Prep The Seven Penitential Psalms A Prayer in Time of
Danger Psalm 143
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Lenten Prep The Seven Penitential Psalms A Prayer for
forgiveness Psalm 51
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Lenten Prep The Seven Penitential Psalms The Joy of forgiveness
Psalm 32
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Lenten Prep In the end, the prayer of St. Augustine places us
in the right spirit for Lent: O Lord, our Lord, you have created us
for yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
Amen.