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Today is Thursday, February 18th, 2021.

So this week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been journeying into Lent.

We left the liturgical season of ordinary time. And yesterday on Ash Wednesday, we entered into Lent. We left the liturgical season of ordinary time and yesterday on Ash Wednesday, we entered into Lent. So today is one of those first days of Lent. And so we have 40 days stretching ahead of

us, which can feel pretty long. And I want to warn you that over these 40 days, you will be

doing great with your Lenton resolutions some days and other days not so great. So as we start,

I just want to give you some tips for a successful and beautiful lent.

Tip number one, remember those Lenton resolutions that you made in terms of giving,

praying, and fasting.

Make sure that you have those written down.

Make sure that they are something that you look at every day, maybe tape them to your refrigerator or put them on the inside of your notebook where

you look, but make sure that you look at them often because over 40 days, it's easy to forget.

It's easy to get to Easter and think, oh, wait, that's right, I was going to give up candy

and I never actually did that. So we need to train ourselves because a lot of us are doing something different than what we

usually do.

So put those lent in resolutions somewhere where you will see them.

Now the next thing I want you to do to have a successful lent is I want you to realize

that keeping a holy

lent might make you live it might ask you to live a little bit differently than the friends

that are in your life. If you go to school with kids that aren't Catholic or part of your family

isn't Catholic, then living a

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