What you should give up or take up for Lent:

• Snacking between meals.
• Social Media.
• Listening to music in the car. (Pray instead.)
• Texting instead of talking.
• Not inviting your friends to Mass.
• Disrespecting your parents or employer.
• Wishing for someone else’s life, relationship, or possessions.
• Only talking to Jesus when you need something or feel like it.
• Pray the Litany of Humility every day.
• Being selfish. Give away something every day: time, money, or possessions.
• Don’t buy anything besides the essentials during Lent.
• Give up TV, go for a walk, and pray a rosary.
• Write 40 affirmation notes or a note every time you slip up and gossip.
• Impure thoughts, words and actions. Enlist an accountability partner.
• Using the Lord’s name outside of prayer. Repeat Ephesians 4:29 every hour.
• Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy every day.
• If you’re judgmental, pray for every person you see.
• Do an examination of conscience every night.
• Using words that don’t glorify God or praise others.
• Dirty and hurtful jokes.
• Eating meat.
• Not apologizing when you should because it’s hard to admit you’re wrong.
• Making excuses to not go to daily Mass or Confession.
• Sugar and/or creamer in your coffee.
• Buying spiritual books and not reading them.
• Not asking your favorite saints to intercede for you.
• Pulling the victim card when things go wrong.
• Pretending you don’t have time to go to Adoration or pray.
• Refusing to recognize God in your neighbors and family, even the annoying ones.
• Hiding your faith from those around you. Share what God is doing in your life and glorify Him these 40 days.