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Here you will find a list of 40 great new habits, some of which you may want to take on for Lent this year. Each one of them involves prayer, or fasting, or almsgiving, or a combination of them. The goal of each one is ultimately to have a closer relationship with God, because you are doing more of what He wants you to do!! Don’t take on more than you can handle, but remember you can only handle any of them with God’s grace, so ask for His help to make your commitment today!
- Get up on time, without your parents having to keep calling you
- Pray every day for 1 minute when you first wake up
- Pray every day for five minutes before you go to sleep
- Commit to going to the chapel every time during Lent
- Be the first to ask your parent ‘how was your day?’ when you get home
- Make your own bed
- Push in your own chair in school or at home
- Sit up straight in your chair and/or at church
- Greet your teacher each morning by name
- Pray a decade of the rosary each day
- Pray the rosary each day when you’re on the way to school, with the people with whom you travel with
- Pray the whole rosary each day
- Skip dessert, and giving it to a family member
- Say hello to one new/unfamiliar kid each day at school
- Pick up trash at lunch without being asked
- Do your homework as soon as you get home
- Pray a prayer of thanks for your food at every meal
- Take on a new house chore that will help your family each day
- Say ‘yes’ to authorities, instead of ‘yeah’
- Pray the prayers at Mass audibly
- Volunteer to spend time each day playing with/taking care of a younger sibling
- Go on a cell phone/social media fast (or at least limit your time to a set, reduced amount)
- Sing in Church so that people around you can hear you
- Give your spare change to the angel penny jar
- Take care of your pet without a parent ‘hounding’ you
- Volunteer to hold the door at school
- Hold the car door for a parent or a sibling when you go out
- Read a Gospel for 5 minutes each day
- Say one (or two, or three) deliberately kind thing(s) to someone every day
- Pray a special prayer each day for the pope, and all the priests and religious you know
- Take five minutes each day alone, in silence, just to be with God
- Fast from listening to the radio
- Listen to Christian radio/music instead of ‘pop’ music (91.9 fm or 95.1 fm in this area work)
- Tell a parent that you love him or her each day
- Refuse to complain about going to church
- Encourage your family to go to Mass each week and Confession at least once during Lent
- Say a prayer each day for someone whom you don’t like
- Pray each day for all of your family members who have died
- Volunteer to clean the toilets in your house
- Do an examination of conscience each evening
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