In your previous essay on Lent, many of you outlined how you were going to BOTH grow your personal relationship with God AND help out others in our community. Here are some of the things you had to "say":
I am not going to argue with my brother or sister at all during Lent.
One more thing I want to give up is being mean to others.
I will volunteer more at church because my church gives some of the money that they earn to poor families so that they can get food and clothes.
I would give all of the money that I have to the Salvation Army so they can give the money to the other organizations as well.
In order to give back to my community I will do the best I can to raise and donate money.
I will help people even more than I usually do, and I will pray some more so I can have a better relationship with God.
For Lent this year I plan on giving up junk food.
I am going to pray every night before I go to bed, and when I wake up every morning.
These are all wonderful examples of Lenten self-denial (fasting), prayer, and almsgiving. HOWEVER, they are quite vague and difficult to measure. If you say, "I'm going to pray more" or, "I want to give to the poor", it is not as concrete as saying, "I'm going to pray for ten minutes before I go to bed every night". "I will bring two sacks of clothes to Goodwill this Friday" is also much clearer.
This week's assignment is two-fold. First, describe how well you've been able to put your general goals into action after one week. Next, turn your goals into something much more concrete and measureable.
Rubric:
10 pts--200-250 words + C.U.P.S.
10 pts--A reflection on your progress so far
10 pts--A more concrete plan of action for the remainder of Lent
Due: Friday, February 15, 5pm.
33 comments:
Grand plans were certainly made on my part. I had decided to try to make a change in the three primary ways outlined in the Pope’s Lenten message: in prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. For prayer, I have been doing exceedingly well. For example, at church on Sunday, I usually fidget a lot, and I look around the church instead of paying attention to the mass. This Sunday was different. I really decided to focus more on my conversation with God, just like Fr. Guy suggested. I plan to continue my focused sessions of prayer during mass every Sunday with my family, and of course Thursdays at school. As for fasting, I haven’t been doing so well. I originally thought I would not watch any TV during Lent, but I quickly found that to be too difficult. So, I have changed my goal to something more realistic: I will only watch three hours of TV for the whole week. I will really have to choose wisely! Lastly, I had decided to take clothes to the poor and cans for the Brownie Canned Food Drive. So far, I haven’t brought in anything, but I now plan to bring in five cans this week, and five cans next week. Also, I asked my dad about going to Goodwill next Sunday. I am going to dive into my messy closet on Saturday so that I will hopefully have two bags to donate.
My plan for fasting in lent was to give up playing my favorite video game, Guitar Hero3. So far my plan has been working out great I haven’t even thought about playing it. I think that I am doing well because I am starting to go back and play my old games when I get board. Even though since I didn’t give my parents my guitar and disk the temptation to go back to my old habits of playing all the time is starting to come back. Another thing that helps me take my mind of off Guitar Hero is playing my real guitar. How I am doing this is looking on the Guitar Hero case and finding the tabs (a form of guitar music) to those songs on the internet and playing them on my real guitar. My plan for prayer is working out a little better than before but still needs a little work. For example this Sunday I went to church with my mom and it was hard to resists just spacing out and not paying any attention at all to what the preacher was saying. My plan for alms giving was to donate two cans every week at school to help the poor. So far I haven’t followed this plan last week I forgot but this week I will make sure to bring them.
They way that I try to help others and my self is to do what Jesus would want me to do. What I am trying to do during lent is I gave up ice-cream and soda pop. The other thing that I am trying to work on is stop being so sarcastic to everyone around me and especially my older sister. I am doing pretty well with it. It is really hard with the sarcasm because my sister and I can go on and on with it. The bad thing about giving up pop is that I want to try this new Dr. Pepper it is Chocolate Cherry Diet Dr. Pepper but I have to wait. They way that I am going to try to reach my goal for almsgiving and I am going to give some of my own old clothes that do not fit me any more and I am going to give those to Good Will. The other thing that I will do is bring in as many cans for the can food drive as I possibly can. Ill at least bring in 4 or 5 at the least. These are the things that I am trying to accomplish during the Lenten season.
Dominic Coffey
For the Almsgiving part of Lent I am going to bring in 2 cans for the canned food drive each week. The cans go to brownie troop 416. I plan on giving foods like sauerkraut and potatoes and peas. I am giving these mainly because I don’t like these foods. I have at home things like escargot and chili beans but I like these foods. Also I am planning on giving some clothing to goodwill or Plato’s closet. I am also planning on giving some clothing to Mr. Heneghan for his bag of clothing to go to goodwill. I am not giving anything up for Lent for 2 reasons: I have never been good at keep things like promises to fast or new year’s resolutions, and also because I am an Atheist. If I had planned on giving anything u I would have given up watching things on television that say bad words of things that use drug references. Shows like Dave Chappelle, Mind of Mencia, or Mad T.V.. These shows are VERY funny so It would be hard to not watch these shows. These shows portray very bad and vile things, which is what makes them funny, Not watching them will make me a better person.
Phillip B.
My goals for Lent were to pray more, to fast form playing my Play Station 2, and to bring in two cans a-week for the Brownie can food drive. My praying has improved over, but I still have not met my goal of praying when I get up and when I go to bed. I want to start praying every morning when I wake up and just before I go to bed. Ideally I would want to pray every day a 6:00 in the morning and at 11:00 at night. I found that not playing my Play Station 2 has just forced me to play my PSP more and listen to Walkman more. I am also on my way to my goal of two cans a-week. The first week I forgot but this week I brought in two cans of chicken noodle soup that I bought at Wal-Mart. I also have gone through my closet for old clothes that I do not wear any more and they were dropped off at Goodwill along with some toys, books and other item that my mom, sister, and dad put in the bags. Giving to Goodwill also gives you a tax deduction so those receipts come in handy when tax time comes around.
How I have been able to put my general goals into action is by praying daily before lunch, dinner, after I wake up and before I go to sleep. I also will be praying for the pope because of his cancer I hope he will get better soon. I also will help the less fortunate by serving food to them on early Saturday mornings. Because I think that if I was in there shoes I would want someone to help me out and plus in the winter to because of the cold weather. Some don’t have any food or jobs nor do they have clothing like shirts, pants, jackets, gloves, and shoes. That’s what I’m going to do for the poor. I’ve come to find out that fasting is a hard thing to do especially when you’re getting up something like not getting mad at anything or anyone. But what I say to myself is that if Jesus died on the cross for our sins and fasted for forty days and forty nights in the desert by himself being with just him and god then I can do it to. This how I am going to become closer to god.
Last week on Ash Wednesday we started Lent. I promised myself to pray more and alms give. I am also attempting to stop watching television. This is proving to be harder than I thought it would be. Praying is not that hard, but it is difficult to make time to pray. Last week I mentioned praying before bed and in the morning, this also turned out to be unsuccessful. Not watching television is extremely tough. Whenever I walk into a room in my house there is a TV on. This makes it so tempting to watch TV. I will try my best to walk out of the room or go occupy myself with something else. I think if I read a little more I will forget about TV and that will help me achieve one of my Lenten goals. I have brought in ten cans to school for the canned food drive. I think I am making sufficient progress with my alms giving. I will strive even more to improve my skills to enable myself to accomplish these goals. I will write notes or frequently remind myself to pray as often as possible. Now I plan to clear my mind and make myself one with God so I can be more triumphant during prayer. I’m more likely to complete my goals if I follow the instructions given in this essay.
Graham B.
So far this Lenten season I have done o.k. on what I said I was going to do. I said I wasn’t going to drink any soda, but I accidentally had to cups when I didn’t realize it. So instead of not having any at all I’m going to only have one soda and it will be on Sundays. A good part about how I’m fasting is that I have not argued with my brother or sister once, but I have made so sarcastic remarks at them. So I have determined that I will also not be sarcastic toward my siblings at all during the Lenten season. My prayer life with God has improved so far. One of the reasons is because I have paid more attention in mass. Also I am going to go to church on Fridays from five to six o’clock every week during Lent. I haven’t prayed as much as I should though. Most of the time when I’m about to go to bed I always forget to pray. This also happens when I wake up. I have worked two and a half hours of community service so far. This was at a spaghetti dinner for St. Joan of Arc last Friday. I also plan to do a lot more. This is what I have done this Lenten season.
What I am going to do for Almsgiving? Like I had already said before, I will try my hardest to go with Ivan to the Lord’s Pantry. His grand father owns the pantry. All you have to do at the pantry, is go with Ivan’s mother and a another woman. What you have to do is get all the drinks and put them in the freezer. You have to do this because the poor people can have something to drink while they eat there food. What Ivan’s mother makes, is Spaghetti and meat balls, and also a salad with there meal. This is very fun to do because you get to meat new people and learn a lot. For example, after you get done helping people with there food, you get your own food to eat and as you set down and eat you talk to people. You have very deep conversations with some of the people. Once when I went to the Pantry I met a lady, her name is Mary something. She was very nice lady because you could learn and hear everything she says. This is a very great experience for all people and many more and for all
During Lent I wanted to try giving up playing my video games and the some activates that I like. So far it’s been hard for me to give up my video games because I was playing Nintendo DS when my dad was buying a Dodge Charger. I decided to think little less hard things like playing my games for 45 min a day. I haven’t been able to give up meat either because I had salmon and chicken wings on Thursday. I have been praying seven days a week to God by praying before I go to bed, in mass, in Sunday church, and in the morning before I go to school. Also I have helped the poor by bringing in caned goods. I hope to do a better job of not eating a lot of sugar. Giving up T.V is easy because I never get watch it because we have so much homework. I am being nice to my little brother, and I’m trying to be a little nicer to my sister. I have said “I don’t like you” but I’m trying to stop that. I will do a better job at being nice to my siblings in Lent session because I’ve said mean things to them.
So far this Lenten season I’ve accomplished some of my goals and changed some of them. Prayer I have been doing it not as much out of school but in school I have been doing it. Most of the time I have not been doing it for the people I said I would like homeless or people that are hurt. For fasting I said I would give up a lot of things. For example I said I would give up spaghetti which I have. One of the other ones like TV was really hard so I decided to watch only two of my most favorite. As for Youtube I’ve decided to only watch videos on the day of my birthday party since that’s when I can show a lot of people videos of my favorite comedian. I have also changed video games because there are a lot of new video game that just came out that interest me likes for example Burnout Paradise. Although I don’t have the game I can still play the demo on the Xbox 360. last, music hasn’t been much of a problem besides some of the songs that I haven’t heard of but still want to hear them but other than that its been real easy. For almsgiving I said I was going to write letters to homeless shelters and prisons I didn’t know how to send letters to what address but I have decided to not do that. But I am still going to do the canned food drive.
During Lent, if you recall, I told you that I was going to be fasting, praying, and almsgiving. My improvement in doing this is sort of fine, but not all that great. To fast I said that I was going to give up bread and sugar. That apparently did not occur. Everyday since Lent started I have been bringing something that had sugar in it and a sandwich for lunch. The only reason why I am doing that is because my mom said that I did not have to give up all the things that have sugar in it and I especially did not have to give up bread. I just had to give up one sweet and no bread. I decided to give up ice cream. In the past week and a half I haven’t had any ice cream. The dreadful thing about it is that I keep opening my freezer and wanting ice cream when I see it. In the future I plan to try not to even think about me even liking ice cream.
The second thing that I said that I was going to do was almsgiving. My improvement on that has been magnificent. At church I have been putting in money and I am volunteering in an Easter play. The play is about Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection. Even though I don’t have as big as a part as some other people I still like doing it. In the future I plan to keep doing what I am doing and never give up.
The last thing that I said that I was going to do was prayer. I have not been praying a lot. The only time that I pray is in the morning at school. In the future I plan to pray everyday.
Marcus Rogers
At the beginning of Lenten season I achieved some of my goals, and some of them I‘ve changed. What I like about school is that you practically get to pray often. But when I get home I pray just before I eat all the time. But now I realize that everyone should pray for more than food, the homeless. Everyone should pray for the homeless because you would want other people to pray for you to be able to live a great life. For fasting I’m not going to be on the computer more than 3 hours and the other is that I’m going to achieve every aspiration I’ve wanted achieve since I was a little boy. Like at Mass, I’m going to start paying extra attention to Father Guy since one of my dreams is being a preacher. But my main objective is getting my mind straight so I can succeed to the eight grade. My progress so far is great. Mostly because I’m listening, answering questions, and asking questions more, which teachers pester you to do. But the only achievement I haven’t reached yet is reading more at home like I used to. To anyone who reads this essay, I suggest them to read more than they usually do to be a smarter person like Mr. Heneghan who reads a lot of books.
During Lent I was trying to give up a lot of stuff. Fasting is my first one, to eat meat for two-day and veggie for five days, that did not work to well. Now I am just eating less, and I know when I am eating too much, and now I am veggie more. Exercising is doing well for me, I’m doing push up, sit up, and jogging. I am trying to stop yelling and screaming, but that not working to well but I am going to keep trying not to do it. I have it really going ate any junk food, so that well. Finally, for Lent I have been nice people lately. Praying is my second one. Praying has gone very well me. I think I got really close to him even a week can really help you get closer to God. I’ve been praying to him when I wake up and when I go to sleep, but basically I will do it any that is quiet. Almsgiving is going I been giving five dollars each week to the Red Cross foundation, and I think it really help the Red Cross. I am going to continue with all this and to be more like God.
For Lent I have done most of the main activities I have promised. I will be truthful, I haven’t done all the things I said I would in my previous essay. So to me it’s like the second half of the season. You make the changes needed and you get better. I have done some things like give food the poor and pray more often. Mrs. Schaefer has helped me pray more by giving our class a special prayer book. In this prayer book you are supposed to speak to God. I like this book because nobody else reads it and you can say whatever it is on your mind. The way I have been keeping up with almsgiving is by giving canned foods to the poor, which is sponsored by the Brownies. Some adjustments that I am going to make are by surrounding myself with any non-pop beverages. Truthfully I have been horrible at keeping my promise by not drinking pop. It’s hard because pop is like a cigarette when you use it or in this case drink it you can’t stop. Overall for Lent I would say I have done a pretty good job at keeping my promises with others and with the most important person-God.
Payge Fowlkes
For my Lenten promises so far I have tuned down on the yelling and I am really nice to my friends and family. For my Almsgiving plans I have given some cans to the brownie troops, so the poor can have a few canned goods for the winter. I have also made a blanket to give to the children in Africa so the wont be so cold this winter season. For the remainder of Lent I will get even more up to date on my self control skills and more of being nice to my friends and family. I also plan to give more of my time to others by volunteering at the Humane Society. My pans at the Humane Society are to give back to those animals that really are special and deserve someone to be there for them. Getting back to me yelling that is not going well since I have an older sister that does not treat me that well, so I can’t help but yell if I get yelled at. For the remainder of lent I will try not to take my anger out on my friends and more on the people who actually deserve to be yelled at. I think that when it comes to Lent this is a very peaceful time that is supposed to be spent with God in prayer and forgiveness of your sins.
For Lent I am doing fairly well. Although I have not yet started almsgiving, my fasting and prayer are going good. My almsgiving is doing good I have not yet given canned foods but am planning to do so tomorrow. Along with the canned food drive I have also taken mister Henaghan’s advice and am giving cloths I have outgrown to Good Will. In my previous essay I referred to the Red Cross as Ted Cross. Anyway I am getting food ready for the needy. I also am planning to help the nurses and doctors cheer up kids at Riley’s Hospital.
As for praying I am praying before I wake up and after I get out of bed. Here are some of the other places I pray in the kitchen, in the hallway, and in my room. I generally like to pray in quit areas. Also I am going to church more often even though it is hard because I stay up so late.
Lastly my fasting has been a little harder than my praying. Fasting from video games is easy since I don’t play them often, but television is extremely because like I said in the last essay I watch video games every day. To conclude this assessment I think all together I am doing exceptionally well that is my observation.
Devon Owens
2-14-08
7th grade English
My progress so far over advent is that I have not been doing so well. Like for one example when going to try to give up TV, videogames, and candy. The only thing out of those three that I managed to barely manage to give up is candy. Now video games and TV that is a different story .TV I could not give up and videogames I played the mostly every other day. For Lent I was going to start praying more. Every day when I was going to go to bed I was usually so tired that I forgot and in the morning same thing. The last one is what I was going to do for advent. I start to go to church more get in touch with god better. When I started to start to try to go to church more I started to go less and less. About a month passed and we were barley going to church at all. I just stop worrying about in and then I started to go more and more. My mom started to come to church with me a lot more too. I started to pray when I went to bed and when I go up in the morning.
Silas Ayers
English
2-14-08
LENT PROGRESS
So far this Lent my progress on my fasting, almsgiving, and praying. My fasting is really good, I have only played Rock Band once at a party my neighbors were having and we needed a drummer. But other than I have been perfect and have not played it. Honestly in Rock Bands absence I have played different games, but if I’m not playing I’m at home up in my room reading or at their house helping out with dinner or helping with the kids or running errands.
Also I have been praying a lot more. While I was sick this weekend I prayed a lot when I woke up and when I went to bed and before meals and just at random times of the day. I think it has strengthened my relationship with God by the fact that I’ve just been talking with him and I feel that I understand a lot more of the things that have happened in my life.
I have fallen behind on my almsgiving. I have not seen any poor people on my street so I haven’t been able to give them money or anything like that. Tomorrow I am going to bring about five cans to feed the poor for the food drive and also to get five points extra-credit. I have not been able to give any\y clothes yet because we don’t any extra just lying around
This Lenten season I have been making good progress in what my goals where. My first goal was to give up tea which is my favorite drink and I have not had one cup since. Also gave up the computer and that has been really well and I have helped people more with the computer from websites or how to operate something’s. I am also trying to stay away from these items as much as I can to avoid any urges to drink tea or play on the computer.
I have also done well in almsgiving. I made a goal to give food or money to the less fortunate then me and I have done that by giving twelve canned goods to the less fortunate. I have already made space for a future event that is taking place to help distribute food to the hungry. The last thing I have done is I am trying to be nicer to other people like my brother and my friends.
And lastly I have tried to strengthen my prayer life. With the journal Mrs. Schafer gave us I have been trying to write in it as much as I can so I feel closer to God. I have been trying to go to church every Sunday and pray and if I can I would serve if I could. I have also tried to stop doubting God whenever something went wrong for me or for my family.
Payton F.
So far I think that I have been doing pretty well on my Lenten activities. Today my mother sent me an email with a website that donates 20 grains of rice for each word you get correct and so far I have given 2280 grains of rice, I have also brought in a can for the canned food drive. I have not remembered to pray to each morning when I wake up each morning or before a snack. I also do not pray the jubilee prayer received at mass on Ash Wednesday. I also have not donated any money, but I do plan to go to a soup kitchen soon. I will go through my closet on President’s Day. I did stay true to not playing video games and my fasting is going well. I will look forward to getting rid of two bags of clothes in the least. Plus if my mother agrees I will have an improved fasting plan. In my new and improved plan I will eat oatmeal for breakfast, Triscuits for lunch, and salad for dinner. I will follow this until Easter Monday. I will still try to be closer God each day, and stay that way.
I have been doing pretty well this lent I have said shut up allot less, and I am working on not saying it at all. I have used many of the words that I have created to replace shut up and it has started to work. I’m really going try and think before I say my next word and choose it wisely so that I don’t say shut up. I have also been giving a little more thought about God and the Catholic religion. I pray every night but I still want to give good allot more of my attention to God, I still want to listen more to him, so I am going to try and give two to three minutes of my time after I pray to think and listen to God. For almsgiving I haven’t done much yet I have given two can to the food drive, and this weekend I going through all my clothes and going to still give them to the Salvation Army when they call. I want to go out and make all my promises true to me so that I will have that sense of accomplishment and know that I have kept my promise to God and myself.
My goal for Lent is going perfectly good I haven’t failed yet. For fasting I said I wasn’t going to eat pepperonis or Mike n Ikes I’ve accomplished this goal really well. I thought I was going to fail because I eat these foods so much. So one day I was really hungry and saw some pepperonis in the refrigerator and didn’t decide to eat them at all. For almsgiving I brought in the cans I promised that I would bring in to help the brownie trop. I think helping collect cans will be a good cause for me because I’m giving back to the community. Why it’s good for me is because I’ really doing something I appreciate and love the most. Without God I would be lost right about known. I wouldn’t be so generous and nice like I am today. For praying I make sure I pray before I go to bed and close my eyes. I say a silent prayer so I wont bother people while there trying to sleep. I love when Lent comes because I get to do something right for a change. I finally get to start my life all over again. It is something I really appreciate. Thank you God for fastening for forty days and forty nights.
This Lenten season has been very well on my part. Since the Lenten season started, I feel that I have built a better relationship with God. Every Sunday as I promised, I went to church with no complaints. Even though mornings and nights have went by without me praying, I still pray more than usual. Another goal I’ve achieved is reading a verse from the Bible each day. The fact that I’m not Catholic made me think I shouldn’t abstain from meat, but I’ve been doing so. Each night since Lent began I’ve been writing my conversations that I have with God in my journal. This has helped me to pray more and build a better relationship with God. I am glad that Mrs. Shaefer came up with that idea writing your conversations on paper that you have with God. I think that this will help get back on track when I run off track. Giving up candy is one of the things that I’ve had trouble with. I decided that I will only eat candy only twice a week. Also, I have not donated any canned goods since Lent started, but I’ll be donating more. My goal is to give 2 to 3 canned goods to my school for them to donate, at least once a week. This is my progress in the Lenten season so far.
Symone Mitchell
6th grade L.A
2-14-08
Lent
My plans for Lent are fasting, praying, and almsgiving. First, I am fasting my gameboy and to stop yelling at people. Fasting my gameboy is kind of hard but I’ve manage to not play it so far, and I will keep it up. Now yelling is very hard for me because I get mad easily. I kind of yell while in Lent, but I will try to check my anger. During the rest of Lent I will not yell anymore. If I feel like yelling I will count to ten backward or something. Next, for praying I was going to pray to God when I wake up and go to bed and when I feel hurt. Those plans have not been going well. I have not been praying to God when I wake up. I will pray when I go to bed today, and I will try to do that everyday during Lent. Finally, almsgiving, I was going to bring in can for the brownie troop and give money to church. The brownie troop is having a canned food drive and I still have not brought in one canned food item but I will get some cans in next week. The money for Red Cross, St.Vincent, and the Save the Whale program, I still have not given money to them. I’ve changed my plan, I am going to bring clothes for Goodwill.
Liz P.
2/14/08
L.Arts
Lent Essay
Lent is every special to Catholics all around the world. Once again, we are back with the Lenten threesome and it consists of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Here is my up data. My first one is prayer. For Lent, I said that I will prayer that I will prayer more than usually. For example is in the morning, at night, whenever someone I know that is hurt, parole, or sick. I have been doing everything. I have prayed in the morning, at night, whenever someone is hurt, parole and when sick.
The second part was Fasting. For fasting, I planed on not only giving up meat, but also cutting down on my hours of television. During a normal day, I usually watch 10-11 hours of T.V. but now I watch 5-6 hours. Now I don’t watch television when I do my homework.
Finally is almsgiving. For almsgiving, I said I would give one can of can goods a week, but my parents have said I can’t do that. I also said I was doing Food Link on February 23 and I can’t wait. The Food Link is when all sorts of thing, for an example toilet paper, canned goods, ect, to the place in which it’s being held. All of stuff goes to those less fortunate then us.
By Jerome Dawn
This Lent I have set goals for myself to accomplish, those goals were fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. I have had good and bad results in my progress to accomplishing these goals. Fasting has not been going so well, I set a goal to stop eating junk food such as deserts, candy, and pop. I have found my self eating these foods from time to time. On some occasions I find my self eating junk food and not knowing it and other times deliberately eating it because of the temptation to. I plan on trying to take my goal a little bit slower. This week I will not eat any candy, next week I will not have any candy or deserts, the week after I will not have any junk food at all. I hope this strategy will help with my difficulty to accomplish my goal. For prayer I find my self doing great, I, in my opinion, am more into and involved in Church and I am praying at home. But I get the impression that my relationship with God needs some improvement. So I have planned to go to Sunday mass every other Sunday, after I have attended mass three times I will start going every Sunday and even try to become a server at mass. I have been making poor progress with my goal for almsgiving, now I have planned to give 10 cans to the Brownies canned food drive and work at the Salvation Army every Sunday.
Alana D.
My progress so far on my Lenten goals has been a tough challenge, but I haven’t given up on any of them yet. I even added some new ones, for instants, I’m going to be nicer to my brother and my sisters. I try to giving more to those who are less fortunate than me. Every Sunday I try to give more in the collection basket at church, and I baby-sit for free to help my brother Sean, Aunt Kim, and the other people in and out of my family I baby-sit for. Another new goal is that I am giving a bigger fraction of my allowance to my church. I also promised to listen to my mom and do what I am told. Wednesday, my mom said I should clean my room while Coco my sister, was cleaning her’s. I didn’t just say yes then not do it like I usually do, I actually did it and I didn’t complain about having to do it. That was one of the harder goals I made this Lent. My goals are all really hard for me to accomplish, but I know some how I’ll keep these goals. I may keep them for good.
Christian W.
So far I think that it’s been going great for my Lenten Activities. For the Almsgiving today I brought in three bags of cans for the canned food drive that is due by Feb 26th. I still haven’t given that much money to the Salvation Army, but I still have time to give some money that I have to them. Next, I haven’t been praying every morning like I said I was going to do, but I’ve been praying all night so for prayer it’s going well for me. Another reason is that I’ve woken up every Sunday morning going to church with my aunt and little cousin. Now for fasting it’s half and half cause I’m doing good on not drinking pop, but not so well on eating chops I just can’t get enough of those chips. Also, I have done a really fantastic job on not eating fast food like for this whole week I've eaten at home. So for fasting it’s like I’m halfway through my goal . A more concrete plan for my Lenten Activities would be for fasting is I can only eat one bag of chips a week. Also, I can't drink pop for the rest of Lent until the day after Easter. Now for prayer when my mom wakes me up in the morning the first thing that I would do is get straight on my knees and pray. I would keep the same routine that I have now for the rest of Lent. Finally, for almsgiving I think that I have been doing an awesome job for it, but I’m going to set a date that I should turn the money into the Salvation Army which will be on March the 11th.
My plan for this lent is to try to be nice to everyone and try to make changes in my life. I have realized that in order to change anything in my life, I first have to have to change myself. I want to go to high school with a good start, good study habits, and new friends. Not only will I try to carry this out for Lent, but through the end of high school. Not only do I want to have good grades but I also am striving to be nice to everyone. I hope that soon I can say that I have succeeded in both. So far it hasn’t been working out so well, since I have been gone for a week I fell behind a little. I won’t let this make me weary or lose the energy to succeed. Hopefully after progress reports come out I will see my grades, and they’ll give me the motivation I need to succeed in these last few month’s of school. The reason I want to really do this because Jesus gave up his life for me, and at least I can get good grades and love people for him like he would want me to do. I will try my hardest through theses 40 days and 40 nights to be the best child of god I can be.
clay m.
6th
This is the follow up on my Lenten promises. I have not been praying every morning when I wake up but I pay attention when we pray in the morning at school. I have been going to church every weekend like I said I was going to do. I have been singing at church with sincerity. I also try to pay attention to Father Guy and not daydream. Helping with the collection has not been that easy because I am too late to get back their and help and I had to go to church at a different time.
For almsgiving I have not done anything yet. But I still have a lot of time left.
My last Lenten promise is fasting. I have not watched as much TV as I used to do before Lent started. I have been nice to some people but not everybody because when somebody says something I don’t like I have to say something to them. I have been turning in all my assignments on time and I have done ok in class and on test. I have tried to be good but it is very hard but I am not getting in big trouble and not being bad. And I will take back about eating not as much meat and not eating in between meals. That is how I have been doing for my Lenten promises.
I tried for lent to do three things to do for Lent they are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. In pary I have not been doing so well. I have not been praying in the morning like I said I would but, I have been praying in the afternoon and at night. From now on I am going to try to start praying in the morning to start the begining of the day with God good. Next is fasting I have been doing very good at that. Now I want to listen to the radio. This weekend it is going to be hard not to listen to the radio because my mom is going to be in town and she listens to the radio a lot when she drives. The last thing that I am doing for Lent is almsgivig. I was going to give American Red Cross $5.00 a week but, I have learned that it was hard to give them $5.00 a week. Now I am going to give them $1.50 a week. Overall I think I am doing preaty good
Vicente V.
During Lent I want to try giving up playing video games because I play it all lot and even giving up riding my skateboard. So far it’s been hard because I use to play it all the time and my dad bought me a game called assassin’s creed. So my brother thought I will play video games for 30mins a day. I haven’t been able to stop eating meat because I had steak and pork on Thursday & Friday. I been praying five days in a week to god every time I go to bed and in the morning in plus in the afternoon, at mass, Sunday church. also I have been raising money for the poor. I sure wish I could do a better job in not eating sugar because my brother bought a Hershey bar on Saturday and I wanted a piece. Giving up T.V. because I watch it all the time and I haven’t been doing so well since I can’t watch T.V. my mom made a schedule of times I could watch T.V. well I don’t watch T.V. that much anymore because we have so much homework. I have been nicer to my little sister because she use to get me mad but now I don’t care if she gets me mad anymore.
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