Intro to Fast and Abstinence 101

Concord Pastor ^ | February 25, 2009 | Concord Pastor

[A.A. Cunningham]

What is absurd is your thinly veiled agenda.

[Campion]

What you quoted ought to be true of the life of the believer every day.

So making a point of reminding ourselves of it annually is out of line?

I guess since you love your wife every day, you most certainly don't celebrate your wedding anniversary. Right? I mean, to be consistent ...

[the invisib1e hand]

Please see my Lenten recipe!

If you can find a way to deliver, let me know.

[kailbo]

With all respect, I see read nothing suggesting lent in those verses.

[diamond6]

I’ll be praying for your health MD!!

[diamond6]

Please see post 17.

[Mad Dawg]

Thank you. It's not really bad, it's just recalcitrant. I'm getting the distinct impression that I might die in 20 years give or take.

Tra La.

[TaraP]

Great post!
I have committed a 3 sat Spiritual Food fast as a commitment to GOD to live by the spirit and honor that the food we eat is a gift from GOD and sharing with other’s is the commandment of GOD in sharing his spirit..

That we all belong to GOD’s Family John 3:1-3

Give Generously 2 Corinthians 9: 6-9

Strive for unity and give to other’s

[LiteKeeper]

A constant reminder, and institutionalizing it, are two different things. Lent is a time of obligation for many Roman Catholics. And there is no justification in Scripture for doing so. The imposition of this sort of thing on believers, particularly as an obligation, is to encrust the Gospel of Jesus Christ with man-made trappings that I don’t think are pleasing to our Lord. What I do voluntarily is one thing; what I do out of a sense of obligation is something altogether different. And the Apostle Paul addresses those things in his letter to the Colossians.

[annalex]

Being Catholic is voluntary.

[LiteKeeper]

Yeah, right. And there is nothing called a day of obligation. And no one puts pressure on good Catholics to attend the Mass every week.

[annalex]

If you choose to be Catholic, obligations come with it, and pressure comes with obligations, yes, thank God.

[LiteKeeper]

If you choose to be Catholic, obligations come with it, and pressure comes with obligations, yes, thank God.

Obligations that come from human tradition, not from Scripture.

[annalex]

The Church received that mandate from Christ. That is in the Scripture.

[ArrogantBustard]

I asked my Pastor about Turtle soup one year ... He agreed that reptiles, like fish, are “Not Meat” for the purposes of Lenten/Friday abstinence.

[annalex]

Turtle soup

I had impure thoughts about a jar of caviar I have in the cupboard last night.

[ArrogantBustard]

With all respect, I see read nothing suggesting lent in those verses.

And that is your problem ... not ours.

[ArrogantBustard]

Frog legs, anyone?

I find "tuna casserole" more in keeping with the Spirit of penitence and conversion.

[annalex]

Where is tuna casserole in the Bible?

[narses]

Why must there be a strict Biblical instruction for the specific Lenten acts of penance, prayers or for almsgiving? All three sets of pius practices and spiritual exercise are themselves clearly Biblical, no?

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