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 For Adults

• Fast with one full meal, no snacks one day a week
• Skip meat and extra day or two a week.
• Give up alcoholic beverages.
• Give up coffee or reduce to one cup a day
• Give up all desserts
• Give up all unnecessary shopping
• Fast from music in the car

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• Attend the 8:00 am parish Mass.
• Begin or begin again the  Daily Rosary
• Meditate for 10 minutes a day ( daily meditation can be found at Catholic.net)
• Choose one extra devotion per week during Lent: Station of the Cross, Eucharistic adoration ( occurs daily in the church! )

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• Visit a nursing home with your children.
• Forgive someone and patch things up in a visit, or if necessary by phone or letter.
• Give up gossip, judging or profanity.
• Find the "Act of Forgiveness" to make every day: A driver who cuts you off, a coworker who annoys you, a shopper who cuts in line, a store clerk who is rude or a family member who ignores your needs.
• Say a kind word to everyone you meet.
• Pay a significant compliment or more to each of your children every day.
• Offer to watch the children of a new mother one day a week throughout Lent.
• Visit an elderly friend or relative.
• Save up a significant amount of money for a deserving charity or apostolate.

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 If none of the adult ideas work for you, try:

• Do chores without complaining 
• Restrict your TV, Internet or music time.
• Restrict your phone time.
• Send a letter or picture to a grandmother, aunt or Godparent.
• Make a new friend outside your "crowd."
• Be a friend to a Shy person
• Choose a favourite toy, book or piece of clothing and put it away until Easter.