What are you giving up for Lent?

2/27/06 | Me

[tje]

Just wondered what people were giving up for Lent.

[tje]

Well, I do think it's interesting what people give up and their reasons for doing so.. I think most people actually have fun with it, even though they're serious.

[linn37]

I'm giving up my husband,who wants him?

[Feiny]

You will fail...the lure of hula hooping is too strong to control.

[rvoitier]

Cigars.

I plan to pray and meditate before as an offering.

:-/

[Dashing Dasher]

I dare you.

[BarbM]

So, why not try giving up one hour a week to attend mass during Lent? St. Joan's doesn't count. You'll have to go twice at any other church, if you got to St. Joan's.

Here's a kicker: St. Olaf has really good cookies and good music at the 4:00 pm Sunday Mass.

[BarbM]

So, why not try giving up one hour a week to attend mass during Lent? St. Joan's doesn't count. You'll have to go twice at any other church, if you got to St. Joan's.

Here's a kicker: St. Olaf has really good cookies and good music at the 4:00 pm Sunday Mass.

[MplsSteve]

What you said kinda reminds me of "The Man's Prayer" which is recited at the end of the "Red Green Show"...

I'm a man...But I can change...If I have to...I guess

[JFC]

No Problem.... I forgive you! :):):)

[The Great RJ]

You know you are getting old when your wife gives up sex for Lent and you don't find out about it until Good Friday.

I always give up watermelon and smoking Cuban cigars myself.

[Dashing Dasher]

More room at the bar for us!

[Nathan Zachary]

It may come a as shock to you, but lent isn't just a Catholic thing. The observance of fasting and other forms of self-denial during Lent varies within Protestant and Anglican
Eastern and western churches.

[irishtenor]

Except the hula hoop looks like a belt on me :>)

[Redleg1963]

Wow, what a sacrifice. I'm not sure how you'll pull that one off.

LOL, my son was 5 or 6 and he kept pulling my finger one day and wondered why it wasn't working.

Just remember that lent ends on Palm Sunday, not Easter.

[Dashing Dasher]

Beano.

[Buck72]

I'm not Catholic so I do not recognize giving up anything for Lent - But if I was, I just had a vasectomy last Friday, giving into months of pleading from the Wife, so does giving up your gene pool count?

Nope. Sterlizing yourself is a grievous sin to a practicing Catholic.

[austinTparty]

Right next to the scripture reference for teetotalling---which is somewhere right after the Miracle at Cana gave all the guests a massive hangover.

[Nathan Zachary]

Read on, LoL! Obviously, in the 4 century the Church was Christ's gospel. Churches didn't split into all the various denominations we see today until much later. There were only the churches mentioned in Johns(?) letters to the churches, and all did the same thing.
Easter of course is remembrance of Christ's crucification, it wasn't "brought in" by anyone, it was there from the beginning.

[Beckwith]

Lent!