• Daily Prayer

• Daily Bible Reading

• Mass/Eucharist

Sundays
Holy Name—January 1
Epiphany—January 6
Ash Wednesday
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Ascension
Assumption—August 15
All Saints—November 1
Thanksgiving (US)
Christmas—December 25
Personal Anniversaries

• Fast and Abstinence

Eucharistic: one hour from food and drink prior to the service
Ecclesiastical: one full and two half meals per day, abstain from meats

• Confession

(Spill it all. It’s one of the best things you can do for your mental health. [It is said that our problems are as big as our secrets.] Confession costs you nothing, and priests are bound by a vow of secrecy.)

Christmas
Early in Lent
Easter
Ascension
Assumption of the BVM (Blessed Virgin Mary [August 15 in the Western Church])
All Saints (November 1)

Almsgiving

Mental Prayer

(If possible, say your private prayers out loud, even if in a whisper.)