I'm so blessed that my second daughter will be born during lent this year. It's my favorite time of year. My goal is to go to confession once a week and really get closer to God. My first born will be receiving her first communion in May and she has inspired me to be a better Christian and it's so amazing. Love you all ♥♥.
Good luck! I've never been a smoker but I've heard it's hard to give up. Hard .... but not impossible! With God all things are possible. Much success to you :)
As a convert I looooove the sweet season of Lent. And one of my favorite thing things PERIOD about being Catholic now is praying the Stations of the Cross. Happy lent (soon) to all! ❤️
Heres my list if anyone wants to add something to their Lenten Discipline: PRAYER: * Thursday Weekly Eucharistic Adoration. * All the mysteries of the Rosary. * Weekly Confession. * Chaplet of Divine Mercy. * Stations of the Cross. MORTIFICATIONS: * 30 minutes of exercise. * No deserts, no sugary food & drinks (except having 750 millilitres of water and one small meatless meal before sunrise and after sunset) * No snacking between meals. * 16 hour fasts per day. * Cold/neutral showers every morning. * 8 hours of sleep a day. * Fish, Fruit and Veggie diet. * No alcoholic drinks. * Stone in shoe. * Pray to God often, pray to God daily to help you by His grace so that you do not overstep the limits of necessity and do not permit yourself to give way to pleasure. * Bear with your neighbor's defects; defects of education, of mind, of character. Bear with everything about him which irritates you: his carriage, his posture, tone of voice, accent, or whatever. * Are you tempted to be angry? For the love of Jesus, be meek and go along with whatever other person wants to do. * To avenge yourself? Return good for evil; it is said the great secret of touching Saint Teresa's heart was to do her a bad turn. * To look sourly at someone? Smile at him with a kind and unselfish disposition. DETACHMENT: * No social media (except for weekly catch up on Sundays). * No radio or secular music. * No T.V. and News (perhaps only holy videos). * No internet for entertainment i.e. news/netflix/blogs ALMS-GIVING * Donate to Charity. * Make a swear box and donate the money to charity. Love God very much, How happy are the souls that do this for they possess a treasure! Love Everyone, but do not put your trust entirely in anyone, because Jesus wants to be your great confident, Everything for him and him alone! Consult him before you do or say. Let your life be one of faith and love. Do nothing to label yourself, without offending anyone, avoid the company of those who are too wild and those who are unmerciful. As for yourself, be busy about your own jobs, keep your opinions to yourself and never express them unless told to do so, be fascinated with only that one subject, the heart of your life, Jesus.
I love your channel .!!! It really helps me and explains a lot to me about the Catholic faith as I am learning about the Catholic faith and have been taking RCIA classes to learn more as I was raised in a Protestant church .You are such a sweet person and a delight to watch!!! God Bless you and your family.
Thank you so much for watching! Here is my video last year about how to do lent with children and Families! th-cam.com/video/Vr2Y3fv98-U/w-d-xo.html . What are you doing this year for Lent to grow in your love for God?
I am considering purchasing the book you mentioned, but noticed it wasn’t in your Amazon store. I’m thinking you mentioned getting benefits when people purchase through there, so I wanted to point that out in case you wanted to add it. :) Not sure what I am doing for Lent... I’m not actually Catholic but have been studying the Catholic Faith for over a year now. Your videos have been so helpful to me. Thank you!
I am going to be cutting back on the social media, but use it only for my channel. Fasting will be easy enough, of course I say that, it's not easy for anyone, but I will do it! Lastly, we have a local food pantry I can help at!
Every year I'm doing different....this Lent I will use a journal to write down every prayer or wisdom that I find from the Bible that might be useful with my every day situation and maybe apply it on this 40 days journey....and also will try to attend the morning Mass during weekdays!
I’m in RCIA and as a former Protestant am uncomfortable and actually have never even said a rosary and (don’t even own a rosary)so my lent goal will be to do a daily rosary in addition to really diving deeper into reading/studying as much as I can about the catholic faith as I prepare to enter the Church this Easter. I’m going to look into your 54 day rosary novena for guidance. Thanks for sharing!
I too am sacrificing sweets and junk food! Processed foods... I am also giving up any personal shows I watch and limiting screen time to only 1hour (as well as for my son). I want to dive into scripture more, praying the rosary daily, and I've subscribed to Full of Grace through the Good Catholic company. As well as two books to read during lent. Lent last year is when Jesus saved me and I am looking forward to experiencing this sacrificial time in the Catholic faith♥️🙏🏼♥️ God Bless You and your beautiful family
Great recap for Lent! I am giving up Dr. Pepper again and trying to replace it with drinking more water vs. iced tea. Have already started with saying a daily Rosary a few weeks back. I can really tell the difference on the days I forget to fit it in.
Yes! Great recap of Lenten pillars! Confession is a great thing during Lent! I also plan to give up sugar for Lent and pray a 45-day Novena! Another great, informative video! God Bless!
All great tips, Heather! I love the purging idea. My house needs a good going over and it would feel good to give to those less privileged than me. My priest made a great suggestion - he said that instead of giving something up for lent, start doing something for God instead. If you don't pray the Rosary - make that your Lent goal - if you do pray the Rosary, pray it twice daily - or start a daily Bible reading, try to get to Mass daily etc. Instead of giving something up ... add something for God! He reasoned that by doing this, you aren't temporarily giving up chocolates or sweets or something, you are adding a habit that you can carry with you long after Lent has passed. By the way he said it, I don't think my priest is big on "giving up" things for Lent, lol. I'd never heard a priest say that before but he found it silly. I like the sacrifice of giving something up for God, but I like the idea of adding something for God even more. Perhaps I will do both? Also, Easter is 53 days away now. If I start a 54 day novena today it will take me past Easter. Should I still start it or should I wait until advent?
I plan to read "Give up Worry for Lent" by Gary Zimak. He was on Catholic radio and the book sounded great. Each Holy Week, I read Archbishop Fulton Sheen's "The Seven Last Words." Powerful.
I read both of these last year, both are amazing. This year we are doing Bringing Lent Home with St. Therese of Lisieux. There is a daily devotional plus a daily fast, almsgiving and prayer focus.
Thanks for another great video Heather. I am praying for you and your sweet family everyday. I ask that you pray for me because I am thinking of creating a Catholic channel for teens and young adults, but am still unsure. Thanks for everything!
I agree and encourage you! I have a son and lots of nephews and a niece and I pray for them almost daily for I get anxiety of the thought of them growing up in a world who is so blind to God and how GOOD he is!
Hey there...I am new here and I am listening to you from Germany. I am not a Catholic so I am not used to do lent...but thought about to do something for this lent season...and then your video is popping up in my recommandation bar. Thank you for that video and those ideas. I will check out the prayers that you listed in the description, because I want to go deeper in my prayer life...I need that. And I think I have an idea what to give up.... :-) A blessed lent season for everyone...and always remember that God love you all...your sister in Christ. :-)
I'm doing Vegan with the exception of Fridays. Fish will be my Friday exception. I do recommend the book "Consecration to Saint Joseph" or "The Day is Now Far Spent"
I subscribe to the Little Catholic box and I just received the most beautiful Chaplet Rosary with all the Stations of the Cross and there are prayers to recite with it as well - The Chaplet of the Way of the Cross. I plan to say this every day
I love the lent season! I plan on giving up sugar/sweets, meat and worrying/anxiety! Through that I I started to pray to rosary more daily and also praying to the sacred heart of Jesus a lot more as well. We practice meatless Fridays and Wednesdays but the overall lent season we tend as a family to eat lighter and not as full and hearty meals as you normally would for winter time (depending where you live, if it’s cold there anyway, I’m from NJ:)) and our church does a soup dinner night on Wednesdays to aid in eating lighter and during that time we always practice prayer, we do bible studies. One year we watched the movie “Jesus”. But mostly this lent season I plan on really strengthen my prayer routine and quiet time. 💛 so far, I’ve already started and I can feel and see a difference, I’m a lot more happier and at peace. 😇🙌🏼
I am going to fast 12-16 hrs a day during Lent.. Intermittent Fasting. This is difficult for me. I will give up Soda 6 days a week. I do say Father Pavones Rosary/Divine Chaplet every day from Facebook. He is head Priests for Life. God bless you all.
I have s physical disability that I think a pope said exempts me from fasting. It's a traumatic brain injury that I got as a 19-month-old boy from getting run over by a car. That accident put me in a coma for about two months. Today I'm an artist in New Mexico. I've also been in some plays and a movie called NOT FORGOTTEN. I was an extra who played myself.
I just read in a book someone describing that doing the Rosary is a time when they are looking at God and God is looking at them. I thought that was lovely
Hello Catholic Mom!Here in the Philippines during Lenten Season we have different forms of sacrifices such us the Visita Iglesia we visit seven Churches by reciting the stations of the Cross, each Church will be atleast 2 stations. And aside from that tradition we also have the so called "Penitensya" or Self-Flaggelation, there are group of men topless, and hitting their back that makes it bloody, as their sacrifice. God Bless. Keep inspiring us!
I am loving watching all these lenten videos. I plan on: > reading a book to grow in faith, > will do at least 2 different novenas, Padre Pio, Divine Mercy > in almsgiving will deposit secretly on the Friday's school piggy bank where we deposit a dollar every Friday and our kids can go in casual clothes and not uniforms, but this money when the piggy bank is full is given away to a needy poor family. > willing to fit also praying time in the morning, but I am still discerning on that one. Confession and do adoration time at least once a week > will fast too... at least that's my plan...
I am going to fast on the Fridays of Lent and I also love sweets so much I'm going to try to give them up, I will pary for you so God will give you strength for all you do.
Great job on your videos! 👍 Thank you for sharing the Catholic Faith. I was looking through your channel again today. You’ve put a lot of thoughtfulness into everything on top of content (thumbnails, SEO, cards etc .) Keep it up!
A Catholic Mom's Life thanks. But I’m not always positive. Just ask my wife 😀. But I always strive to share a useful and encouraging message with the videos.
There's no reason why not as long as you know how to use it, Rosary will make you more closer to Our Lord Jesus and Blessed Mother....good luck and thank you for reconsidering, God bless you!
Yes and it's from the bible... #HailMary... Luke 1:28-31 28 And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. 29 Who having heard, was troubled at his saying, and thought with herself what manner of salutation this should be. 30 And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. 31 Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus. Luke 1:39-42 39 And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda. 40 And she entered into the house of Zachary, and saluted Elizabeth. 41 And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: 42 And she cried out with a loud voice, and said: blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Thank you so much for the heads up and reminders to help us prepare for lent! As a cradle/traditional catholic it's always hard to stay focused. I love that we have the liturgical year to keep us all balanced and to keep us all in the "honeymoon" state with our faith!🙏🏼💖 #lent2020 #countingourblessings #loveissacrifice
Hi Heather, love this video. I’m starting the 33 days to Morning Glory on Friday (I did it a couple of years ago) and felt like I received many blessings from it. I’m also going to start the 54 day novena too, which will be so special as I am spending Easter this year at Lourdes so to continue saying the rosary here, I think will be extra special 🙏😊. Going to also give up sugar as God has definitely put it on my heart that this has become an unhealthy addiction and this will be tough for me but I know with God’s help I can do it. Thank you for continuing to encourage us to truly prepare during Lent. God bless xxx
You are so amazing. I love your channel ! I wish that I can show my face one day on my channel however I am too shy at present lol. Please keep up you great work ! I am trying to pray rosary with my kids more often. Alarm it’s a great reminder!
I love your videos. I had this idea for this lent: everyday I will choose a random Saint (many of which I don't know) through Catholic.org cause it's a great resource that lists all saints. I will read about their life (it gives a summary) and see what they are a patron of. I will think of a person who falls under that and pray for them.e.g. if I read about St. Florian and see he's the patron of firefighters, I'll think of a firefighter I know and pray for him or her or just the local firefighters in general..in that way I'll pray for another person specifically daily and also learn about Saints and learn about Jesus and faith from them.
Heej! :) Im new here and im watching from Denmark (Originaly im from Croatia!) Im so, so happy to have found someone like you here!! God truly uses you for his work! ❤
I attend a diocesan Latin Mass parish. Before Vatican II, and still in all LM parishes, we celebrate Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima Sunday’s. It is a beautiful Lenten preparation. Why the Church cut those practices out is beyond me😬.
I'm giving up my smartphone. I hoped to replace it with a flip phone but I'm having trouble finding one that isn't expensive or requires me to switch numbers. I've gotten a few apps that will disable almost everything, though, and my husband is in charge of the password. I hope to take that extra time to spend with my children and in prayer. I'm going to have my oldest decorate a small alms box to keep change in and he'll put it in the collection plate on Easter.
Dear Mom, I hope you and your family are prepared for the season of Lent. Well so am I. I have a question to ask you. Would you and your family keep me and my family in your prayers? Because my family has become very dysfunctional including my older brother and sister in law. Both my older brother and sister in law keep on manipulating each other and telling lies about each other and they're acting like hypocrites. And that really deeply saddens me.😰. Thank you. Amen.
I am your fan. I am a Catholic and you inspired me in so many ways.. Id like to start making videos lkie what you make but i really dont know how to start it. MAY GOD GRANT ME COURAGE LIKE YOU. Godbless
In addition to my daily Rosary, I plan to pray at least one more of the Divine office (I am already praying Compline so I will add Prime and/or Vespers). I pray the Trent 1910 version using an app called BrevMeum. I plan to read 3 books: How to Make a Good Confession by Fr. John Kane (I’m rereading this now for Ash Wednesday confession); Spiritual Combat by Scupoli; and Whst Jesus Saw From the Cross by A.D. Sertillanges.
I want to eat cleaner during lent. I'm giving up chocolate and popcorn. I Want to go to adoration once a week. Lent devotional is sometime I do every Lenten season. Pray the rosary everyday. Thank you for explaing fasting. 🙏
Hi Heather I love your videos. Thank you for all the ideas. For this lent I will stop watching to TH-cam videos that don’t help me grow in my catholic faith. I will also be doing more praying.
I can’t go to confession:( I NEVER knew I couldn’t, when my oldest son made his First Holy Communion I wanted to set an example, when I walked into confessional the priest asked IF I was married in the Church, I wasn’t:(, so he said he couldn’t hear my confession, it’s been over 30 years since I haven’t been to confession, received communion, because of what I was told, I’ve always respected this “rule”. I still go to mass AND LOVE MY FAITH, SO MUCH TO LEARN, I wish I knew to pray for a husband, I’ve been in an interfaith marriage, he never wanted to promise the church, he would raise our children Catholic-so we just went to Vegas:(, wish I knew then what I know now:(, was ALWAYS difficult being the only pillar of faith for my children, AND now they’ve grown up to think it’s okay. I personally think it is so IMPORTANT to marry Someone who is of your sane FAITH. anywho, thanks for your continued teaching🙏🏼
Hello! I'm super excited to find you! I am a Catholic wife and I'm always looking for like minded women. As I was searching around your channel I noticed a misspelling.. in your video category 'Catholic Begginers' I believe the word 'Begginers' is spelled wrong.. unless of course there's a different spelling and meaning that I'm unaware of. I think it should be 'Beginners.' I would have preferred to mention it in private but I wasn't sure how so here it is.. God bless you. Can't wait to see what other videos you have and I've already subscribed.
Thank you for your video. I am giving up Peanut Butter...yup I’m addicted. Lol. Also doing the 54 day rosary. Can you tell me when I should start it? Is it on Ash Wednesday?
Yes Odalys nocera - I too will be starting the 54 Day Rosary Novena starting on Ash Wednesday! I can relate to the peanut butter addiction! It's terrible, I eat so much of it :)
I am giving up TH-cam. 😔This will be harder for me than even sweets and I love my sweets! In the mornings, I typically get up and watch some YT during breakfast. And then after lunch. And then after dinner. I’m going to instead use this time to read and pray the rosary as well as pray. I’m planning on reading Fr. Elijah by Michael O’Brien and Catherine of Siena by Sigrid Undset. I plan on trying some theology of the Early Church fathers. Please, pray for me. This is going to be hard. Plus this will be my first REAL fast of the last 20 years. 🤫
Wow, that's amazing. I really think that for today's people giving up social media or TH-cam is extremely hard, but it will better prepare us for Easter. I also recommend to give up a secular music and listen to only religious music. St. Catherine is one of my favourtie saints. Are you going to read The dialogue or her letters or both :)?
Heather, I am contemplating on praying the 54 Rosary Novena. Are there additional prayers besides the daily rosary? If so, could you share a reliable resource? Thanks :)
First and for most I wanna say thank you so much for your videos. You have been very helpful and I appreciate that. I grew up in a catholic home in Louisiana, but as I got older, I kinda stray away but I would go to a Christian church. As a kid, my father took me to the catholic church and Sunday school faithfully but I never got my baptism, my confession nor my first communion. Now that I’m older, something hit me hard and now I’m willing to do lent this year and beyond. I purchased a rosary for myself and went to my first mass yesterday or was it a mass? Cause it was like 15mins and received communion. After that, I asked the priest if he could bless my rosary beads for me and he did. Now this is my first time actually doing lent even tho I seen my father do it every year, but I wanna ask is on the day of Ash Wednesday, what I must do in order to start?? Do I have to be baptized in a catholic chruch, had my first communion and confession? Because I been baptized and before yesterday I had communion but it wasn’t in a Catholic Church. I wanna do lent this year because I’m currently sustaining from pornography and self pleasure because after my dad died I was entering a dark place and if it wasn’t for my understanding fiancé and Jesus Christ, I wouldn’t be here. And I feel that doing lent this year and praying the rosary would draw me closer to Jesus Christ. I’m sorry for the long story 😅 and I hope you can help me. Thank you and God Bless.
It'sgreat that you are on the good way to return home :) There are a few rules that states whether your baptism was or wasn't legitimate. The easiest way to know it, is to ask a priest from a nearest parish or search this in Google. The Rosary is indeed beautiful, medieval prayer. During lent it's especially worthy to pray and meditate Stations Of The Cross and Chaplet of Divine Mercy. I'm just curios, what church have you been to, that they have communion and support Rosary prayer?
I have a few questions... (I am deployed rn & usually my grandma helps me remember everything for Lent 😅) so fasting shouldn’t be every Wednesday & Friday? Just Ash Wednesday & Good Friday? And is it every Friday that we aren’t supposed to eat meats? Or am I wrong?
I’m giving up sugar for lent 🥴😩 pray for me!
I'm so blessed that my second daughter will be born during lent this year. It's my favorite time of year. My goal is to go to confession once a week and really get closer to God. My first born will be receiving her first communion in May and she has inspired me to be a better Christian and it's so amazing. Love you all ♥♥.
I need to give up smoking, this will help me.....keep up the videos through lent for support
Michael Mawhinney I will pray for you my brother God Bless you
Good luck! I've never been a smoker but I've heard it's hard to give up. Hard .... but not impossible! With God all things are possible. Much success to you :)
As a convert I looooove the sweet season of Lent. And one of my favorite thing things PERIOD about being Catholic now is praying the Stations of the Cross. Happy lent (soon) to all! ❤️
ALLELLUIAH 🙏🙏🙏
Heres my list if anyone wants to add something to their Lenten Discipline:
PRAYER:
* Thursday Weekly Eucharistic Adoration.
* All the mysteries of the Rosary.
* Weekly Confession.
* Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
* Stations of the Cross.
MORTIFICATIONS:
* 30 minutes of exercise.
* No deserts, no sugary food & drinks (except having 750 millilitres of water and one small meatless meal before sunrise and after sunset)
* No snacking between meals.
* 16 hour fasts per day.
* Cold/neutral showers every morning.
* 8 hours of sleep a day.
* Fish, Fruit and Veggie diet.
* No alcoholic drinks.
* Stone in shoe.
* Pray to God often, pray to God daily to help you by His grace so that you do not overstep the limits of necessity and do not permit yourself to give way to pleasure.
* Bear with your neighbor's defects; defects of education, of mind, of character. Bear with everything about him which irritates you: his carriage, his posture, tone of voice, accent, or whatever.
* Are you tempted to be angry? For the love of Jesus, be meek and go along with whatever other person wants to do.
* To avenge yourself? Return good for evil; it is said the great secret of touching Saint Teresa's heart was to do her a bad turn.
* To look sourly at someone? Smile at him with a kind and unselfish disposition.
DETACHMENT:
* No social media (except for weekly catch up on Sundays).
* No radio or secular music.
* No T.V. and News (perhaps only holy videos).
* No internet for entertainment i.e. news/netflix/blogs
ALMS-GIVING
* Donate to Charity.
* Make a swear box and donate the money to charity.
Love God very much, How happy are the souls that do this for they possess a treasure! Love Everyone, but do not put your trust entirely in anyone, because Jesus wants to be your great confident, Everything for him and him alone! Consult him before you do or say. Let your life be one of faith and love.
Do nothing to label yourself, without offending anyone, avoid the company of those who are too wild and those who are unmerciful.
As for yourself, be busy about your own jobs, keep your opinions to yourself and never express them unless told to do so, be fascinated with only that one subject, the heart of your life, Jesus.
This is so helpful.
Especially for mortifications (which i slack on).
Thanks for sharing and have an enriching Lenten season.
What about no food and water for fasting sunset to sunrise
@@manchesterutd9755 unless you want to starve to death then go ahead
I love your channel .!!! It really helps me and explains a lot to me about the Catholic faith as I am learning about the Catholic faith and have been taking RCIA classes to learn more as I was raised in a Protestant church .You are such a sweet person and a delight to watch!!! God Bless you and your family.
Oh gosh. I’ve no clue what I’m doing to give up for Lent... I know I’d like to say the rosary everyday as a devotion
I did that two years ago for Lent and never looked back! It has changed my life. :)
Thank you so much for watching! Here is my video last year about how to do lent with children and Families! th-cam.com/video/Vr2Y3fv98-U/w-d-xo.html . What are you doing this year for Lent to grow in your love for God?
A Catholic Mom's Life We’re going to use the daily Lenten challenges / reflections that will be in the app Catholify 🙏🏼😃
I am considering purchasing the book you mentioned, but noticed it wasn’t in your Amazon store. I’m thinking you mentioned getting benefits when people purchase through there, so I wanted to point that out in case you wanted to add it. :) Not sure what I am doing for Lent... I’m not actually Catholic but have been studying the Catholic Faith for over a year now. Your videos have been so helpful to me. Thank you!
I am going to be cutting back on the social media, but use it only for my channel. Fasting will be easy enough, of course I say that, it's not easy for anyone, but I will do it! Lastly, we have a local food pantry I can help at!
I started FIAT 90 back in January and will end right at Easter. It’s been amazing so far!
Every year I'm doing different....this Lent I will use a journal to write down every prayer or wisdom that I find from the Bible that might be useful with my every day situation and maybe apply it on this 40 days journey....and also will try to attend the morning Mass during weekdays!
I’m in RCIA and as a former Protestant am uncomfortable and actually have never even said a rosary and (don’t even own a rosary)so my lent goal will be to do a daily rosary in addition to really diving deeper into reading/studying as much as I can about the catholic faith as I prepare to enter the Church this Easter. I’m going to look into your 54 day rosary novena for guidance. Thanks for sharing!
Welcome home.
When I’m blessed with a family, one of the traditions I want to start is choosing a Catholic charity to donate to every weekend in lent.
I too am sacrificing sweets and junk food! Processed foods...
I am also giving up any personal shows I watch and limiting screen time to only 1hour (as well as for my son).
I want to dive into scripture more, praying the rosary daily, and I've subscribed to Full of Grace through the Good Catholic company. As well as two books to read during lent.
Lent last year is when Jesus saved me and I am looking forward to experiencing this sacrificial time in the Catholic faith♥️🙏🏼♥️
God Bless You and your beautiful family
Great recap for Lent! I am giving up Dr. Pepper again and trying to replace it with drinking more water vs. iced tea. Have already started with saying a daily Rosary a few weeks back. I can really tell the difference on the days I forget to fit it in.
Yes! Great recap of Lenten pillars! Confession is a great thing during Lent! I also plan to give up sugar for Lent and pray a 45-day Novena! Another great, informative video! God Bless!
Thank you sooo much for your channel! Our church needs this!!
All great tips, Heather! I love the purging idea. My house needs a good going over and it would feel good to give to those less privileged than me. My priest made a great suggestion - he said that instead of giving something up for lent, start doing something for God instead. If you don't pray the Rosary - make that your Lent goal - if you do pray the Rosary, pray it twice daily - or start a daily Bible reading, try to get to Mass daily etc. Instead of giving something up ... add something for God! He reasoned that by doing this, you aren't temporarily giving up chocolates or sweets or something, you are adding a habit that you can carry with you long after Lent has passed. By the way he said it, I don't think my priest is big on "giving up" things for Lent, lol. I'd never heard a priest say that before but he found it silly. I like the sacrifice of giving something up for God, but I like the idea of adding something for God even more. Perhaps I will do both?
Also, Easter is 53 days away now. If I start a 54 day novena today it will take me past Easter. Should I still start it or should I wait until advent?
Oh yah you could always do both😊 if you start the 54 day Rosary on Ash Wednesday i think you will end on Divine Mercy.
@@ACatholicMomsLife Thank you so much! Yes, I will start the 54 day Rosary on Ash Wednesday! That's perfect :)
Our parish is doing Lentil Soup for Lent on Friday’s. We will do Stations of the Cross then gather afterwards for lentil soup.
I plan to read "Give up Worry for Lent" by Gary Zimak. He was on Catholic radio and the book sounded great. Each Holy Week, I read Archbishop Fulton Sheen's "The Seven Last Words." Powerful.
I read both of these last year, both are amazing. This year we are doing Bringing Lent Home with St. Therese of Lisieux. There is a daily devotional plus a daily fast, almsgiving and prayer focus.
Thanks for another great video Heather. I am praying for you and your sweet family everyday. I ask that you pray for me because I am thinking of creating a Catholic channel for teens and young adults, but am still unsure. Thanks for everything!
As a mom of 5 children I encourage you to open the channel. It will be helpful for the youth and for everyone that will watch your channel!
I agree and encourage you! I have a son and lots of nephews and a niece and I pray for them almost daily for I get anxiety of the thought of them growing up in a world who is so blind to God and how GOOD he is!
Hey there...I am new here and I am listening to you from Germany.
I am not a Catholic so I am not used to do lent...but thought about to do something for this lent season...and then your video is popping up in my recommandation bar.
Thank you for that video and those ideas. I will check out the prayers that you listed in the description, because I want to go deeper in my prayer life...I need that.
And I think I have an idea what to give up.... :-)
A blessed lent season for everyone...and always remember that God love you all...your sister in Christ. :-)
I just found your channel I'm a newly Christian I just started reading the Bible everyday
Exodus 90
I'm doing Vegan with the exception of Fridays. Fish will be my Friday exception. I do recommend the book "Consecration to Saint Joseph" or "The Day is Now Far Spent"
I subscribe to the Little Catholic box and I just received the most beautiful Chaplet Rosary with all the Stations of the Cross and there are prayers to recite with it as well - The Chaplet of the Way of the Cross. I plan to say this every day
I love the lent season! I plan on giving up sugar/sweets, meat and worrying/anxiety! Through that I I started to pray to rosary more daily and also praying to the sacred heart of Jesus a lot more as well. We practice meatless Fridays and Wednesdays but the overall lent season we tend as a family to eat lighter and not as full and hearty meals as you normally would for winter time (depending where you live, if it’s cold there anyway, I’m from NJ:)) and our church does a soup dinner night on Wednesdays to aid in eating lighter and during that time we always practice prayer, we do bible studies. One year we watched the movie “Jesus”. But mostly this lent season I plan on really strengthen my prayer routine and quiet time. 💛 so far, I’ve already started and I can feel and see a difference, I’m a lot more happier and at peace. 😇🙌🏼
I am going to fast 12-16 hrs a day during Lent.. Intermittent Fasting. This is difficult for me. I will give up Soda 6 days a week. I do say Father Pavones Rosary/Divine Chaplet every day from Facebook. He is head Priests for Life. God bless you all.
I have s physical disability that I think a pope said exempts me from fasting. It's a traumatic brain injury that I got as a 19-month-old boy from getting run over by a car. That accident put me in a coma for about two months. Today I'm an artist in New Mexico. I've also been in some plays and a movie called NOT FORGOTTEN. I was an extra who played myself.
I just read in a book someone describing that doing the Rosary is a time when they are looking at God and God is looking at them. I thought that was lovely
Hello Catholic Mom!Here in the Philippines during Lenten Season we have different forms of sacrifices such us the Visita Iglesia we visit seven Churches by reciting the stations of the Cross, each Church will be atleast 2 stations. And aside from that tradition we also have the so called "Penitensya" or Self-Flaggelation, there are group of men topless, and hitting their back that makes it bloody, as their sacrifice. God Bless. Keep inspiring us!
I am loving watching all these lenten videos. I plan on:
> reading a book to grow in faith,
> will do at least 2 different novenas, Padre Pio, Divine Mercy
> in almsgiving will deposit secretly on the Friday's school piggy bank where we deposit a dollar every Friday and our kids can go in casual clothes and not uniforms, but this money when the piggy bank is full is given away to a needy poor family.
> willing to fit also praying time in the morning, but I am still discerning on that one. Confession and do adoration time at least once a week
> will fast too... at least that's my plan...
That’s a great Lent list! Hope you have a great Lent😊
During Lent I like to say the Stations of the Cross on Fridays
I am going to fast on the Fridays of Lent and I also love sweets so much I'm going to try to give them up, I will pary for you so God will give you strength for all you do.
Awesome...thank you!
It's not to give up something is doing something as a Catholic Christian.
Great job on your videos! 👍 Thank you for sharing the Catholic Faith. I was looking through your channel again today. You’ve put a lot of thoughtfulness into everything on top of content (thumbnails, SEO, cards etc .) Keep it up!
Thank you! I love your channel! You are always so positive! Thank you for all you do to proclaim the gospel! God bless you!
A Catholic Mom's Life thanks. But I’m not always positive. Just ask my wife 😀. But I always strive to share a useful and encouraging message with the videos.
Am i able to pray the rosary if I’m not catholic
There's no reason why not as long as you know how to use it, Rosary will make you more closer to Our Lord Jesus and Blessed Mother....good luck and thank you for reconsidering, God bless you!
Yes you can!
Yes!!! Mary is everyone’s mother🥰
Yes and it's from the bible...
#HailMary...
Luke 1:28-31
28 And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
29 Who having heard, was troubled at his saying, and thought with herself what manner of salutation this should be.
30 And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God.
31 Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
Luke 1:39-42
39 And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda.
40 And she entered into the house of Zachary, and saluted Elizabeth.
41 And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
42 And she cried out with a loud voice, and said: blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Yes, absolutely you can.
Thank you so much for the heads up and reminders to help us prepare for lent! As a cradle/traditional catholic it's always hard to stay focused. I love that we have the liturgical year to keep us all balanced and to keep us all in the "honeymoon" state with our faith!🙏🏼💖 #lent2020 #countingourblessings #loveissacrifice
I love the liturgical year too! 🙏🏼🥰
I love your videos!!! Last Lent was a game changer for me. I am praying for one like that this year.
Hi Heather, love this video. I’m starting the 33 days to Morning Glory on Friday (I did it a couple of years ago) and felt like I received many blessings from it. I’m also going to start the 54 day novena too, which will be so special as I am spending Easter this year at Lourdes so to continue saying the rosary here, I think will be extra special 🙏😊. Going to also give up sugar as God has definitely put it on my heart that this has become an unhealthy addiction and this will be tough for me but I know with God’s help I can do it. Thank you for continuing to encourage us to truly prepare during Lent. God bless xxx
You are so amazing. I love your channel ! I wish that I can show my face one day on my channel however I am too shy at present lol. Please keep up you great work ! I am trying to pray rosary with my kids more often. Alarm it’s a great reminder!
Thank you for everything you do and say
This is a wonderful inspirational woman
Thank you for creating this video. It will and is helping me in my journey to build a closer relationship God.
I love your videos.
I had this idea for this lent: everyday I will choose a random Saint (many of which I don't know) through Catholic.org cause it's a great resource that lists all saints. I will read about their life (it gives a summary) and see what they are a patron of. I will think of a person who falls under that and pray for them.e.g. if I read about St. Florian and see he's the patron of firefighters, I'll think of a firefighter I know and pray for him or her or just the local firefighters in general..in that way I'll pray for another person specifically daily and also learn about Saints and learn about Jesus and faith from them.
Where did you get the beautiful gold and pink image of Mary and Jesus?
Heej! :) Im new here and im watching from Denmark (Originaly im from Croatia!) Im so, so happy to have found someone like you here!! God truly uses you for his work! ❤
Thank you for this video! I will use your 54 day Novena link during Lent this year.
I'm going to do the 54 days rosary again I did it in 2020 but didn't finish the 54 days fully. But I'm trying again.
Awesome Video!!! 🙂🙂🙂 #Lent2020
I attend a diocesan Latin Mass parish. Before Vatican II, and still in all LM parishes, we celebrate Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima Sunday’s. It is a beautiful Lenten preparation. Why the Church cut those practices out is beyond me😬.
I agree completely ! I too attend TLM .
Thank you. Loved this video. God bless💛💛
I'm giving up my smartphone. I hoped to replace it with a flip phone but I'm having trouble finding one that isn't expensive or requires me to switch numbers. I've gotten a few apps that will disable almost everything, though, and my husband is in charge of the password. I hope to take that extra time to spend with my children and in prayer.
I'm going to have my oldest decorate a small alms box to keep change in and he'll put it in the collection plate on Easter.
Dear Mom,
I hope you and your family are prepared for the season of Lent. Well so am I. I have a question to ask you. Would you and your family keep me and my family in your prayers? Because my family has become very dysfunctional including my older brother and sister in law. Both my older brother and sister in law keep on manipulating each other and telling lies about each other and they're acting like hypocrites. And that really deeply saddens me.😰. Thank you. Amen.
Thanks, Heather :)
Facebook has a 54 day novena. I continue to follow it over and over. Hope this helps
Link?
Heather, would you PLEASE consider doing a video on the History of Lent; many folks would wish to know. You have the knowledge! 😉
I am your fan. I am a Catholic and you inspired me in so many ways.. Id like to start making videos lkie what you make but i really dont know how to start it. MAY GOD GRANT ME COURAGE LIKE YOU. Godbless
This is wonderful! Here are some videos I did about it that might help😊 th-cam.com/play/PLV7v_81j_oZZdk8AcEIaZoTA1EYeRqpTd.html
@@ACatholicMomsLife thank you.. I will start this lent sharing about my Catholic faith. I will offer it for reparation of my sins.
In addition to my daily Rosary, I plan to pray at least one more of the Divine office (I am already praying Compline so I will add Prime and/or Vespers). I pray the Trent 1910 version using an app called BrevMeum. I plan to read 3 books: How to Make a Good Confession by Fr. John Kane (I’m rereading this now for Ash Wednesday confession); Spiritual Combat by Scupoli; and Whst Jesus Saw From the Cross by A.D. Sertillanges.
No social media Facebook TH-cam Tex message on good Friday between noon and 3pm.
hi lsca’s from 7C 😘😘
Yooooooooooo escucharé la GOD WILL ....
I want to eat cleaner during lent. I'm giving up chocolate and popcorn. I Want to go to adoration once a week. Lent devotional is sometime I do every Lenten season. Pray the rosary everyday. Thank you for explaing fasting. 🙏
Hi Heather I love your videos. Thank you for all the ideas. For this lent I will stop watching to TH-cam videos that don’t help me grow in my catholic faith. I will also be doing more praying.
I can’t go to confession:( I NEVER knew I couldn’t, when my oldest son made his First Holy Communion I wanted to set an example, when I walked into confessional the priest asked IF I was married in the Church, I wasn’t:(, so he said he couldn’t hear my confession, it’s been over 30 years since I haven’t been to confession, received communion, because of what I was told, I’ve always respected this “rule”. I still go to mass AND LOVE MY FAITH, SO MUCH TO LEARN, I wish I knew to pray for a husband, I’ve been in an interfaith marriage, he never wanted to promise the church, he would raise our children Catholic-so we just went to Vegas:(, wish I knew then what I know now:(, was ALWAYS difficult being the only pillar of faith for my children, AND now they’ve grown up to think it’s okay. I personally think it is so IMPORTANT to marry Someone who is of your sane FAITH. anywho, thanks for your continued teaching🙏🏼
Can you make a video on lent ideas for kids? What do you do with your kids for lent?
Hello! I'm super excited to find you! I am a Catholic wife and I'm always looking for like minded women. As I was searching around your channel I noticed a misspelling.. in your video category 'Catholic Begginers' I believe the word 'Begginers' is spelled wrong.. unless of course there's a different spelling and meaning that I'm unaware of. I think it should be 'Beginners.' I would have preferred to mention it in private but I wasn't sure how so here it is.. God bless you. Can't wait to see what other videos you have and I've already subscribed.
Greetings from SOUTH AFRICA 🌕❤️❤️❤️ I am new on your channel
So glad you are here!
Thank you for your video. I am giving up Peanut Butter...yup I’m addicted. Lol. Also doing the 54 day rosary. Can you tell me when I should start it? Is it on Ash Wednesday?
I love peanut butter too😂 lent starts on Ash Wednesday🥰
Yes Odalys nocera - I too will be starting the 54 Day Rosary Novena starting on Ash Wednesday! I can relate to the peanut butter addiction! It's terrible, I eat so much of it :)
I am giving up TH-cam. 😔This will be harder for me than even sweets and I love my sweets! In the mornings, I typically get up and watch some YT during breakfast. And then after lunch. And then after dinner. I’m going to instead use this time to read and pray the rosary as well as pray. I’m planning on reading Fr. Elijah by Michael O’Brien and Catherine of Siena by Sigrid Undset. I plan on trying some theology of the Early Church fathers. Please, pray for me. This is going to be hard. Plus this will be my first REAL fast of the last 20 years. 🤫
Wow, that's amazing. I really think that for today's people giving up social media or TH-cam is extremely hard, but it will better prepare us for Easter. I also recommend to give up a secular music and listen to only religious music. St. Catherine is one of my favourtie saints. Are you going to read The dialogue or her letters or both :)?
Heather, I am contemplating on praying the 54 Rosary Novena. Are there additional prayers besides the daily rosary? If so, could you share a reliable resource? Thanks :)
Great. Just started my 54 days rosary novena last night. It’s my second time doing it. My question is, do you include the Luminous mystery?
I don't .
7 day fasting...
First and for most I wanna say thank you so much for your videos. You have been very helpful and I appreciate that. I grew up in a catholic home in Louisiana, but as I got older, I kinda stray away but I would go to a Christian church. As a kid, my father took me to the catholic church and Sunday school faithfully but I never got my baptism, my confession nor my first communion. Now that I’m older, something hit me hard and now I’m willing to do lent this year and beyond. I purchased a rosary for myself and went to my first mass yesterday or was it a mass? Cause it was like 15mins and received communion. After that, I asked the priest if he could bless my rosary beads for me and he did. Now this is my first time actually doing lent even tho I seen my father do it every year, but I wanna ask is on the day of Ash Wednesday, what I must do in order to start?? Do I have to be baptized in a catholic chruch, had my first communion and confession? Because I been baptized and before yesterday I had communion but it wasn’t in a Catholic Church. I wanna do lent this year because I’m currently sustaining from pornography and self pleasure because after my dad died I was entering a dark place and if it wasn’t for my understanding fiancé and Jesus Christ, I wouldn’t be here. And I feel that doing lent this year and praying the rosary would draw me closer to Jesus Christ. I’m sorry for the long story 😅 and I hope you can help me. Thank you and God Bless.
It'sgreat that you are on the good way to return home :) There are a few rules that states whether your baptism was or wasn't legitimate. The easiest way to know it, is to ask a priest from a nearest parish or search this in Google. The Rosary is indeed beautiful, medieval prayer. During lent it's especially worthy to pray and meditate Stations Of The Cross and Chaplet of Divine Mercy. I'm just curios, what church have you been to, that they have communion and support Rosary prayer?
I have a few questions... (I am deployed rn & usually my grandma helps me remember everything for Lent 😅) so fasting shouldn’t be every Wednesday & Friday? Just Ash Wednesday & Good Friday? And is it every Friday that we aren’t supposed to eat meats? Or am I wrong?
Just Ash Wednesday and every Friday:)
Very nice easy strong words, to remind you, Starbucks did not celebrates ChristMas
Thanks
Please give charity to Palestine yeman and Syria as a Catholic
My son and I am giving up r rated movies and bloody movie for lent
WHAT ABOUT DIABETES?