What ought I to do for extra penance in Lent? It’s a question many ask themselves. Fortunately, the best kind of penances, all spiritual writers seem to agree, are the penances that are passive. They are the ones God has chosen for us. Dom Hubert Van Zeller, in his 1958 classic Approach to Penance, tells us that while taking on active penances, especially those dealing with the externals of our life…