Posted on 02/05/2016 7:12:26 PM PST by Salvation
Lenten Ping!
Not yet, I’m not ready! (I’m still not ready for Advent!)
Next Wednesday (Ash Wednesday) Lent begins. Is your music group singing at any of the Masses?
Way early, the earliest possible. Easter (March 27) will be my oldest daughter’s 25th birthday. It was Wednesday of Holy Week the year she was born.
No, we haven’t been asked to do Ash Wednesday. The Spanish-speaking people will be scattered throughout the day: men on the way to work at 7:00 a.m., women with children at 11:00 or 4:30, and anyone else at 7:00 p.m. I’m taking most of my family at 4:30; I’ll be a lector and the Confusion Brothers will be altar servers.
I suppose I should be talking about a Spanish music element at the Easter Vigil, though. We have half a dozen or so catechumens and candidates. When they were introduced at the Mass a couple of weeks ago, my 6-year-old son heard “candidatos” and said, “Mama, all those people are Canadians!”
LOL, children say the darndest things.
At least he was paying attention. His Sunday School teacher says he’s very alert.
Isn't is amazing how the years FLY by? She has her birthday at a GOOD time.
Your call sign reminds me that's it's getting time to file. I send my stuff to a CPA firm in a very small town. He/they have been doing our taxes, now MY taxes, for eons.
Say, if this is Lent, then is the rest of the year borrowed?
Did they have Mardi Gras and nobody reported on it?
Next Tuesday.
Are you an active Catholic or Orthodox member?
This is a Catholic and Orthodox Caucus thread.
We have four birthdays in ten days: March 27, March 30, April 2, and April 6. It’s not unusual for them all to be in Lent or Holy Week, but this is the first year in a long time that none will fall during Lent.
For us, Great Lent doesn’t start until March 14th this year. That’s also when the Great Fast starts. “Technically” that means no meat or meat products (eggs, dairy), no fish with a backbone, no wine, no oil until Pascha (May 1st this year). Very few lay people actually follow that fast, but most of us abstain from meat for the duration. The first week is the hardest but after that it’s not so bad. In point of fact, you’ll feel better and the very end of Great Lent is the time to have your cholesterol checked.
I goes without saying that regular participation in the weekday devotions during Lent is the “way to go”.
I’m giving up political commentary. No Mark Steyn, no Jonah Goldberg ... it’s going to HURT.
I was curious what your Lent looked like. How many meals do you actually eat per day? For the first time, I am observing the pre-Vatican II Lenten Fast...which is the full 40 days (minus Sundays).
We eat three usual meals, though we are taught to limit our food everyday, not just in Great Lent. On the other hand, we definitely eat more than you guys.
My very Irish Catholic dad followed the pre-Vatican II fast in Lent his entire life...and he gave up booze too...except on Sundays.
BTW, there are some days during Great Lent when we can have wine and fish. The feast of the Annunciation is one.
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