Happy New Year Day

Now that Christmas has ended and the new year has started it's time to started thinking about lent and easter. Lent starts in a little over three months on Wednesday March 1st. So its time to start thinking what to give up or start doing for Lent. Here some ideas of what you should do for the forty days.

Things you could give up for Lent:

• Television (or certain shows)
• The radio (all the time, certain time of day, etc.)
• Favorite foods (pizza, ice cream, etc.)
• Eating out
• Soft drinks/caffeine/coffee
• Clutter
• Debt (using credit cards)
• Certain books/magazines (read ones that will help you grow spiritually)
• Social Media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.)
• Computer use/blogging
• Negativity/Stress
• Gossip
• Road rage
• Lying
• Swearing
• Addictions
• Procrastination
• Working overtime (unnecessarily)

Things to do during Lent:

• Going to Mass more than once 
• Praying the Rosary
• Attending Stations of the Cross
• Making time for personal prayer with the Lord
• Praying with your family
• Going to Confession
• Quiet time
• Commitment to exercise
• Being a better friend
• Staying positive
• Volunteering
• Works of Mercy (feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick, etc.)

• Being on time

For my first Lent I gave up Facebook. And what started doing was I gave up pants and started wearing skirts and dresses and more modest types of shirts that don't expose my womanly parts to the world that does not need to see them and haven't worn pants since 2014. I would say that if your going to mass it's a good idea to dress more feminine because thats how God made us. He made us women to dress in skirts and dresses because we were different than man. But by all means if you don't feel comfortable in skirts and dresses try to wear a higher neck line on shirts so your "girls" aren't showing. We don't need unnecessary men lusting after us.