Illuminated by Joy - a Group for Catholic Teens discussion

Here I will post a daily Catholic challenge to try and do each day!!!

Day 1.
Practise the corporal work of mercy: feed the hungry today. Now, you may not be able to get out and give food to starving people, but it can start in your own family. Get lunch for a little sibling, cook something for your family, take care not to waste food. Even clean the kitchen as a way to make it easier for someone else to cook. If you have any practical suggestions comment below!

Day 2:
Something extra:
Do an extra devotion today to prepare for (hopefully) recieving Our Lord tomorrow. Something like a chaplet, a litany, even an extra prayer, just to ready your heart and soul to recieve our Saviour.

Day 3: Spend 15 minutes meditating on the Lord you (hopefully) are about to or have received. Mediate on his all encompassing love to give himself to us in the most Holy Sacrament.

Day 4: Practise the spiritual work of mercy, bearing wrongs patiently. Now, this can be if someone accuses you of something you didn't do, is not very nice, anything of that sort, and be patient, silent, and calm. Also, bear the wrongs done in the church patiently. Pray for those who do it.

Day 5: Do a work of charity. Do something really nice and uncalled for, for someone, a family member, a friend, anyone really.

Day 6: Bl Pier Giorgio loved to sing! Even though he was tone deaf he was constantly singing. As a challenge for the day sing without ceasing!!

Day 7: Today is Thanksgiving, and really try today to be thankful to the Lord in your heart for everything. The good and what seems to be the bad. Bl Pier Giorgio did this. He was thankful for the social position and wealth his family had, and for his good health, and so he used these to the benefit of others, not himself, to show God he was grateful.

Day 8: The year of St Joseph is drawing to a close, and take some time today to pray the litany of St Joseph (plus gain a partial indulgence.)

Day 9: Today, be silent. Not silent in the sense you never talk, but let your soul be quiet, calm, listening for the voice of God. Traditionally Saturday night is supposed to be a quiet evening, so you can prepare your soul to receive Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Listen to God.
"Be still o my soul, and let all that is in me praise His Holy Name."

Day 10: As you prepare to receive Jesus into your soul, on this First Sunday of Advent prepare for Baby Jesus to come to the earth once again on his birthday, Christmas. Saying in your heart, Veni Veni Emmanuel, come o come Emmanuel (God is with us).

Day 11: Start a novena today for an intention of yourself or someone else. There is always someone to pray for.

Day 12: Offer up all your sufferings this day and practice mortification for the sake of a soul in Purgatory, and leave it up to the blessed mother who it is. It is a good way to end the month of the holy souls.

Day 13:
On this first day of December, practise self denial. Deny yourself some small pleasure, such as something nice to eat, something you want to watch or read. Any unnecessary thing you take pleasure in.

Day 14:
Do something nice for someone else. Help them with a chore, school, or something. And offer it up to Jesus and ask him to give you charity.

Day 15:
Comfort the sorrowful. This could be a sibling, a friend, a stranger, anyone really. Ask God to send you an opportunity to do this, and one will come your way if it is God's Will.

Day 16:
Say the litany of the Holy Face in preparation for Holy Communion.

Day 17:
When you need comfort over something, to to God first before anything else, any other human comfort.

Day 18: (I'm posting this for tomorrow not for today.)
Wake up earlier so you have more time for prayer and recollection in the morning before the busy day begins.

Day 18:
February is the month of the holy family. Today do something nice with your siblings.
The challenges this month will be focused on building family relationships and love.

Day 19:
While being with family and friends today, try and keep your mind uplifted to God. Pick something small to say each tine you remember, like Jesus Meek and Humble of Heart, make my heart like unto Thine.

Day 20:
Try and keep in mind the four final things as you do your daily tasks.

Day 21: Sacrifice your will to that of another.

Day 22: say the way of the cross.

(stations of the cross I mean. And if you can't go to a church, just say them yourself.)

Day 23:
Offer everything you do to God, and try to do them extra well, remembering you are the servant of God in all things.

Day 24:
Wednesdays are dedicated to St Joseph. Pray his litany.

25:
Say the first day of the litany that I will post to Bl Emperor Karl for Ukraine!

Say the stations of the cross according to St Alphonsus of Liguori, either at a church if you can, or at home if you can't.

Day 27:
As you clean your heart to receive Jesus tomorrow, also clean your room to make it nice and clean for Sunday. (If you're room is already spotless I applaud you and wish I could say the same for my room 😑)

Day 28: Pray without ceasing. Try and remember God in all that you do.

Temporarily closed. For the daily challenge go to the topic Daily all in one.