Some ways to practice penance during this new liturgical year.

• Efforts at reconciliation with a family member or neighbor
• Tears of repentance
• Concern for the salvation of our sisters and brothers
• Prayer to the saints for their intercession
• Patient acceptance of the cross we must bear to be faithful to Christ
• Defense of justice and right
• Admission of faults to God and to one another
• Mutual correction
• Offer and acceptance of forgiveness
• Endurance of persecution for the sake of God’s kingdom
• Development of a spirit of penance
• Witness to a Christian way of life

Also, Works of Mercy.