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To: Hacksaw

Good for you! I’m sure you will get an extra jewel in your crown for that. < /sarc>

FWIW, I’m giving up lent. < /sarcx2>


83 posted on 03/11/2011 11:13:17 AM PST by Gamecock (The resurrection of Jesus Christ is both historically credible and existentially satisfying. T.K.)
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To: Gamecock
FWIW, I?m giving up lent.

In most western languages and Latin the word we translate as "lent" just means "forty days" (e.g.: quadrigesima). "Lent" is Anglo-Saxon for "spring". It is about the day's LENgThening. The days get longer; we spend more time in the light.

If someone eschews (or is predestined to eschew) spending more time in the light but prefers darkness, then we Catholics will pray that person yet may bask in the light which shines in darkness, which darkness does not comprehend.

Have a blessed springtime.

84 posted on 03/13/2011 4:18:40 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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