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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Friday, March 1st, 2019. This week on Catholic Spouts, we have been talking about Lent because it is right around the corner. We talked about the basics of Lent, how it starts on Ash Wednesday and goes all the way to Easter. We also talked about what we can expect to see during Lent, including the colors,

the ashes, the stations of the cross.

Next, we talked about the things that we can anticipate hearing, the fact that we will not hear the Alleluia,

and that we should look for more silence during Lent.

Yesterday we talked about three things that we can expect to feel during Lent if we are

living it out the right way. And those three things were hunger, boredom, and suffering.

Of course, we don't want to take any of these to the extreme.

Christ does not desire that we harm ourselves.

He simply wants us to start looking at the things that we do too much of and the things

that we can offer him as a sweet and simple gift.

Today, we are going to start talking about what we should be doing during Lent,

because Lent is not only a time of reflection, it is a time of action also.

On Monday, we started the discussion of the resolutions that we should be making during Lent.

And hopefully you went and downloaded that worksheet and have been thinking about them.

If you would still like to grab it, you can head to Catholic sprouts.com forward slash Lenton dash worksheet.

But I would encourage you to set three different resolutions for yourself this Lent.

And we're going to review what each of these areas are.

And I'm going to give you some ideas for what you can do in each of these areas.

So the first area is prayer. Lent is a time where we need to

rededicate ourselves to our private prayer life. Now, as Catholics, we are required to go to

Mass every Sunday. So hopefully that is not something that you need to make a resolution about

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