Most of us think about giving up something for Lent. But take a second here. Are you just being guilted into it? Are you giving up something because you feel you have to? Or are you actually trying to seek a relationship?

How is your Lent plan actually helping your walk with Jesus Christ?

Maybe you hadn't really thought about it. So let's do it differently this time. Maybe change it up. Add a 10-second prayer to your busy day.

What’s your plan of action this Lent?

Keep it simple. Keep it small. Actually get it done. *And make it count.*

Whatever you plan, make it 50% easier - so that you stick with it.

Let’s inspire each other.

Drop a comment right here with your goal this Lent.

I'll go first. I suck at private daily prayer. So I'm putting on my calendar a daily minute just to sit in silence, and pray an Our Father, Hail Mary. Its going to be good for me to start small, and get used to just stopping everything for a moment of prayer.

I am trying something a little different this year. I dont' have a set plan yet but I have been praying about what I want my relationship with God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit to look like. Then I'm going to work backwards and try to discern what prayer, fasting, and almsgiving I need to do in order to help foster the change I want to see. I'll update with specific practices once I have them finalized

Fr. Mike Schmitz encouraged daily Adoration for 29 minutes each day during Advent. I took up the challenge then , and it was really powerful for me to sit in silence with Jesus each day in Adoration. I was filled with a lot of peace and joy. I plan to resume this during Lent! And hopefully beyond!!

I will be saying thank you to some in my life every day of Lent by a phone call, email , text or personal note .

I am going to be reading scripture daily using Lectio Divina. Dr. Tim Gray breaks down this method in this recording if you want to know more about Lectio Divina: https://watch.heroicmen.com/videos/lectio-divina-hearing-god-s-voice-through-scripture-by-tim-gray

Lent will be both a vulnerability and fulfillment moment for me and based on yesterday's confession, I still have much to work on! Patience and purity under stress and ridicule are key. Each morning is already spent with a Catholic Book Publishing Company daily devotional, One Bread One Body, Magnificat, Word Among Us, and two other rotating books as well as weekly TMIY, and my evening with an examination of conscience. In Lent I will delete the two rotating books, add the Magnificat Lenten Companion, and add spiritual journaling. I offer to the men out there for you and your sons my Virtue-Based Children's Writing (VBC) at inkitt.com/richagnello

Found myself wasting more time in front of TV, giving up watching TV and replacing with spiritual reading “The Interior Caste” St. Theresa of Avila. Start each day with morning offering uniting my prayers with all Christians throughout the world as well as fasting every Friday. Seek to be intentional to overcome my slothfulnes

To my prayers I will add 7 Hail Mary throughout the day to our lady of sorrows. And ask for the grace to be able to suffer for others in my family work and home for their sanctification 🙏🏽📿

I am going to continuing the prayers ask by our bishop, for believing in the real presence of Jesus Christ in the eucharist, also continuing liturgy of the hours, but going to add more of the daily prayers other than lauds, and vespers, more of the rosary and devotion of the milita of the immaculata, and praying for my cohorts as we journey for the diaconate,

My brothers at my parish talked me into trying Exodus 90 again. I think the Lord wanted me to do this again since I really didn't give it my best last time a couple of years ago. So I'm doing a double Lent basically and pretty strict on the asceticism sacrifices. But it has been very good in opening up more time to spend in prayer. I'm a truck driver so I have LOTS of individual time to pray. I've started attending 9am Mass online every day, 1-2 rosaries each day, 3pm Chaplet each day and many moment of the day to sit in silence to listen for the Lord to talk to me. I've found more strength to go to confession with more humility and less fear. And I've asked Jesus to give me the graces to love the Mass and the Eucharist more.

As an old man-almost 80, I'll first go back to my childhood and give up meat on Friday. To me that was and is classic training of a person's will with God's help. When I was a teenager I gave up doughnuts and sweet rolls, so I'm doing that also. As a man I had prayer time either religious readings or actual prayers. I'll will continue to discipline myself in these areas that pleases Jesus and enhances me as a man of God.

Interior in the castle is a great read but I found it some what difficult

Devil in the Castle St Theresa of avila, Spiritual Warfare and the progress of the soul is a must read by Dan Burke it breaks down the book by St Theresa of Avila. Identify s the levels of spiritual progress what it looks like and what strategies to use against I might read it again for lent ⚔️✝️

I am an 88-year-old Irish fart. I will be watching Mass and Rosary daily. I am going to listen to scripture and say prayers for a God-living World without all the evil and viruses and pray that the Politicians, would be inspired by the Good Lord and the Blessed Mary and that they would think of the people instead of their own greed. This is a sad world today.

I will continue with my Exodus 90 fraternity through the exercise and asceticisms. In fact seeing a picture of a little boy “napping” on the dirt floor in front of his shanty home, has allowed me to see that my 2 pillows are little luxurious and as penance I will be removing them from my bed for 40 days in solidarity of the less fortunate without the comforts I so readily enjoy. Peace be with you.