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A Plan for Lent
Thank you to the National Formation Commission for collaborating on this piece.
The Conversion Process: Ongoing and continuous conversion of the heart
For each week of Lent focus on one action item below that you would like to cultivate in a special way
as part of your Lenten journey.
- Make an act of reparation or a modification of behavior to show sorrow for sin.
- Be willing to recognize and accept suffering as the consequence of separating myself from God. (Offer sufferings for the benefit of others.)
- Commit to a plan for prayer, fasting, almsgiving. (See: Joel 2:12-18)
- Intentionally evangelize a lukewarm or nonbeliever.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to make me aware of a specific moral shortcoming and for the grace to change.
- Consciously live the Beatitudes.
- Seek personal conversion through deeper prayer.
- Radically commit to the Gospel life centered on the person of Jesus.
- Savor God’s mercy, experiencing the love of God which unceasingly calls us back to Himself.
- Accept myself as I am now and strive to reach a deeper level of conversion.
- Journal on my spiritual journey made up of failures and falls and also made up of new beginnings, new discoveries.
- Use St. Francis’s paraphrase of the Lord’s Prayer for meditation.
https://www.franciscantradition.org/francis-of-assisi-early-documents/the-saint/writings-of-francis/the-undated-writings/a-prayer-inspired-by-the-our-father/174-fa-ed-1-page-158
