5 Senses Lent Personal List
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Draw Dates will be: March 1st, 6th, 9th, 14th, 20th, 24th, 29th, April 3rd, 7th, 12th
Five Senses Lenten Challenge
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How To:
Each person chooses two sacrifices or tasks they will do for each one of their five senses and write them on their list. Every four days of lent (not including Sundays) one of the 10 senses will be drawn at random and announced. Once that sense is drawn we all begin doing whatever we had listed for that sense. Every four days we will add another one. By the end of Lent you will be doing 10 different things. See the attached sheets to help you visualize what this means.
Spiritual Comradery
This Lenten challenge is meant to be done with others. When everyone is walking toward the Cross together relationships are strengthened. We will all stay accountable to each other as we add sacrifices throughout Lent. You will discover Lent has become a time of spiritual graces and strength and your friends will feel like battle partners. Victory is sweet when the battle is tough. Also, for those doing this challenge we will pair you with a random partner (separated High School and Middle School). You will pray for that person and offer sacrifices for them all through Lent. You can choose if you want to do more (letters, a gift on Easter etc.) but there is no expectation of that. Each person will be praying for someone and being prayed for by a different person.
Join Your Sufferings to Jesus’s
One of the Lenten challenge’s goals is to engage all five of your senses in the Lenten journey. As Christians we know that bringing our body into our prayer, sacrifice, and relationship with God is helpful. Throughout the challenge you engage more of your senses and become closer to Jesus’ suffering on the Cross. By Good Friday your whole body is engaged and can be offered up as an offering to our suffering Savior.
Intensify Your Lent
Ever get to Easter and feel like your Lent was kind of lame? Or have you ever reached Easter and not been that excited? This challenge helps you to engage your whole self and your friendships into the Lenten experience and guarantees a good Lent. When you put this much of yourself into something God will reward you. Often we limit ourselves by what we think we can’t do; this challenge asks us what we can do for Christ and how we can remove certain things to make room for Christ. It challenges us to sacrifice more, pray more, give more, and engage more in this awesome season. By the end of Lent you will know you have offered God your all and Easter is bound to be a new celebration.
SUGGESTIONS FOR EACH SENSE
These are only suggestions. Feel free to come up with your own that suit you and your needs this lent. Make sure to pray about it!!!
Taste:
Ice Cream
Cookies
Pop
Candy
Butter, salt, pepper
Condiments-ketchup, dressing
Liquids other than water
Going to Mass an extra day a week
Touch:
Sleeping with no pillow
Cold/lukewarm showers
Sleeping on the floor
Giving up favorite sweatpants or clothing
Intentionally touching someone’s life each day
Thumbs touching phone (contributed by Gus Clark)
Apps on phone, especially games
Pray the rosary or a decade of the rosary or divine mercy chaplet
Smell:
Favorite perfumes
Favorite body washes or shampoos
Foods or drinks that you enjoy the smell of
Candles, scenties
Car fresheners
Smell the roses more often (do a prayer of thanksgiving every night).
Give a flower each week or day to someone special (carnations are cheap).
Do your own laundry or help your parents out by doing their or a sibling’s
Sight:
T.V.
Cellphones
Netflix
Selfies
Makeup (or one part of your makeup)
Asking others how you look or if you look okay
Putting more pictures up of Jesus or Mary
Looking at God more in adoration (commit to stop in once a day or once a week at school or at Church)
Commit to smiling at people in the hall rather than looking at the ground
Look up a new Saint each day
Look up a new Bible verse each day
Go outside more and notice nature more
Sound:
Radio
iPod
Pandora
Gossiping
Give yourself time for silence
Listen to Spirit Catholic Radio 95.7 (or get the app)
Give up inappropriate music
Choose to listen more to adults, or people you don’t normally enjoy listening to.