Mostly catholics & christians advice & if other people have good methods they can look too; hopefuly priest?

so for this years lent, i am having trouble keeping my promise for what i'm quitting for this month. any advice? its only happened once. please help me with advice to stop what i want to do.... for atleast until easter. any methods?Mostly catholics %26amp; christians advice %26amp; if other people have good methods they can look too; hopefuly priest?
Prayer, like the rosary, and frequent reception of the eucharist are my advice to strengthen the spirit and overcome weakness.Mostly catholics %26amp; christians advice %26amp; if other people have good methods they can look too; hopefuly priest?
Remind yourself that JESUS is stronger than your temptations.





If we all knew what you are trying to give up it would be easier to give advice.
Repent. Temptations are just along the corner. Remember that this was the time where satan tempted Jesus.If you happen to attend the gospel last sunday. It doesn't matter if how many times we fall from sins, what matters was we go back and repent to renew our life.





Pray for guidance, meditate on everything wrong that you have done and try to change it slowly by slowly. You can,just put determination on anything you want to change.
As someone else has pointed out Lent is not about giving up or quitting something. In the traditional Catholic Faith, which is the only true faith wherein salvation can be obtained, the practice is to fast during the forty days of Lent, abstaining from eating meats on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays of Lent (as well as all other Fridays during the year). During the rest of those forty days meat is taken only once at the principal meal. Two other small repasts (breakfast and lunch) are to be of such a small quantity that together they do not add up to the principal meal of the day. Further these small meals should be of such portions that you still feel hungry after having eaten them. There is to be NO snacking in between these two repasts and one main meal. Juices, coffee, tea, milk and water can be consumed in any quantity. (Water especially helps to fill the stomach and relieve hunger pangs.)





Of course Sunday is never a day of fasting, but you should maintain the fast from midnight until you receive the Blessed Sacrament at Sunday Mass (even though this Eucharistic fast has been shortened to three hours for food).





If you attend the Novus Ordo or New Mass, this is no Mass at all and I would urge you to seek out and find the true Catholic Mass that is celebrated by true Catholic priests ordained by true Catholic Bishops.





Here are some of the traditional prayers from the true Catholic Mass:





';Almighty and everlasting God, Thou didst grant the remedy of Thy pardon to the Ninevites when they did penance in sackcloth and ashes; grant in Thy goodness that we may so imitate them in our behaviour that we, like them, may obtain forgiveness.';





';Thou dost purify Thy Church, Lord, every year by the observance of Lent; grant to Thy household that what we strive to gain from Thee by our abstinence, we may put to use in our good works.';





';Turn towards us, God our Saviour, and that this Lenten fast may profit us, train our minds with Thy heavenly instruction.';





';Look down upon Thy family, Lord, and grant that our souls, chastened by the mortification of the flesh, may glow in Thy sight with the desire for possessing Thee.';





';Look down upon us, O God, our protector; that we, who are weighed down by with our sins, having experienced Thy mercy may serve Thee with peaceful minds.';





';In all our actions, Lord, may Thy grace go before us and follow us, so that every prayer and work of ours may begin always through Thee and through Thee be likewise ended.';





Don't make promises to the Lord that you cannot keep, and don't think that you can do anything of yourself (by your own strength) for our help is in the name of the Lord. Did not our Lord say: ';Without Me you can do nothing.'; I don't know what it is that you promised but as long as it is not mortally sinful I would not worry about it. Even to miss recitation of the Rosary is not a mortal sin. Examine your conscience and make sure you are not becoming scrupulous.
Lent shouldn't be about giving up something for a month - it should be a time when you refocus on Christ and dedicate yourself to beginning a discipline that you can carry on afterward. Its about making a real change in your relationship with God.
Remind yourself that you are stronger than the temptations.
I'd recommend practicing the devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Mary. See promise #4





The Seven Sorrows of Mary are as follow:





1. The Prophecy of Simeon


2. The Flight into Egypt


3. The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple


4. Mary Meets Jesus as He Carries His Cross


5. The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus


6. The Body of Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross and Placed into Mary's Arms


7. Jesus is Placed in the Tomb.





Mary wishes for us to pray one Hail Mary while meditating on each of the Seven Sorrows, for a total of seven Hail Marys. She has made the following promises to those who do this on a daily basis:





1. I will grant peace to their families.


2.They will be enlightened about the Divine mysteries.


3. I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work.


4. I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my Divine Son or the sanctification of their souls.


5. I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives.


6. I will visibly help them at the moment of their death, they will see the face of their Mother.


7. I have obtained this Grace from my Divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy.