Well, it's Lent (actually it's now been Lent for over a week). I was wondering what everyone gave up for Lent.
I gave up fast food.
[ March 12, 2006, 11:29 AM: Message edited by: andi330 ]
Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
Wow, nobody else gave anything up? I feel lonely.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
I added quick prayers for others throughout the day.
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
Cabbage.
Posted by theamazeeaz (Member # 6970) on :
Ice cream and chocolate.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
I gave up playing silly computer games. I waste lots of time on Tetris, Freecell, Minesweeper, Mahjongg Solitaire, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, Hearts, Pinball, etc. It's like a mindless way for my brain to run on idle. But the trouble is that it's not even very enjoyable. There are so many higher quality and more productive ways that I could spend my time. I decided to break that habit forever, of pulling up a game and just randomly mindlessly noodling away at it. So I started for Lent.
Instead, I'm going to write in my journal, read, post, or work on making something. Stuff that's higher quality use of time and more fun.
It's not a big thing, but any promise made to God is a good thing. And it blesses me.
Posted by katdog42 (Member # 4773) on :
I gave up ice cream and I am going to clean out my room (get rid of stuff i don't really need). I am also doing something positive by way of taking a prayer walk of some sort every day.
Kat
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Last Lent the preacher my cousin's church( I was there too) got very emotional. He was preaching about the violence going on and everybody getting shot because of drugs guns and gangs. Then at the climax of his homily he told everybody to go up to the altar and lay down their guns. One dude got up and laid an AK-47 on the altar and went back to his seat. It was dead silent man everybody was just quiet. The dude who laid down the gun was shot 2 days later.
[ March 12, 2006, 01:29 PM: Message edited by: SoaPiNuReYe ]
Posted by katdog42 (Member # 4773) on :
Wow. That's really powerful. If only everybody had listened to the preacher.
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
How would you bring an AK-47 to church without anyone seeing it? I mean, AKs are rifles, not handguns.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
A friend of mine's only eating one meal a day during Lent. He says someone told him that Sundays are an exception during Lent, that one doesn't have to fast on Sundays -- is this true?
Posted by johnsonweed (Member # 8114) on :
I tried to go positive and am committed to do a good thing each day.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Super Popeye's is having a Lent special...catfish and crawfish, I think.
Silly Catholics.
-pH
Posted by katdog42 (Member # 4773) on :
Sundays are always solemnities or feast days which are technically excluded from the season of Lent. Lent is a season of forty days. When you count the days from Ash Wednesday to Easter you get more than forty. This can rectified by not counting Sundays.
Some people give stuff up and then have them on Sundays. When I was a kid and gave up candy or cokes for Lent, though, I always thought it tasted better on Easter if I hadn't had it at all during the time of Lent, so if i gave it up, I gave it up. However, I don't give people grief if they decide not to count Sundays. It's not that big of a deal to me.
Kat
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
To add to that -- every Sunday is a celebration of the resurrection, hence a mini-Easter.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
SoaP -- Nothing personal, but I'm highly skeptical of your story.
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
Tom is always the one who says what I'm thinking.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
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And it blesses me.
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