Posted on 02/17/2007 2:35:52 PM PST by Salvation
Some excellent suggestions for family activities.
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It would be great if people could share some Lenten meals. My father and I, when I was younger, would get our Friday meals at our church; they had the best bean soup recipe. The cooks wouldn't give out the recipe though.
Wish I had it.
dibs on the paczskis!
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When I was very young, we spent winter and Spring in Peru. For Carnival there was what must have been a "baptized" pagan water festival. For three days I, at the age of 4, kept watch in our front yard with a bucket of water balloons. I was allowed, indeed expected, to throw them at any grownup who came by. All the grownups wore rain coats and carried umbrellas. Is that cool or what? I still smile at the memory. We had a walled garden and I remember lobbing water balloons over the wall into our neighbor's garden.
My growing up family wasn't all that devout. So Lent wasn't such a big deal. It's a pity, because that means Easter isn't such a big deal either.
I'm having surgery on both feet the second week of Lent, so that's going to be rather a major element this year. With any luck I'll have recovered enough to be able to spend Holy Week on the Gulf Coast with some rescue/follow-up/type thing.
Isn't that true! I was pretty darn good about advent prayers this last year. Of course it helped that my three year old loved them. I think children are innately drawn to ritual.
YES! We are hard wired for "religion". Kids know something important is going on, it's indisputable to any observer.
In one of the parishes where I served parents would report to me that their young children would imitate my gestures as I celebrated. And my kid invented a little icon procession one year, and she made a very big deal of putting the baby Jesus in the creche -- A natural (if somewhat excessive) liturgist.
And in a culture where formal gestures and ceremonies are not often used, it is no wonder that young people clamber up to groves and high places looking for some expression of the Holy.
(It's all in Plato. Whatever DO they teach them in schools these days? heh heh heh)
**I'm having surgery on both feet the second week of Lent, so that's going to be rather a major element this year. With any luck I'll have recovered enough to be able to spend Holy Week on the Gulf Coast with some rescue/follow-up/type thing.**
You will be in my prayers. What kind of surgery?
Basically they will break and then whittle on my tarsals(is that right) and screw them back together so that my bunions don't hurt too much, and don't stick out do much. Evidently it has a good track record. The afternoon of the day that I signed up for this year's MS walk I went out for a jog and had to quit in a mile. I could hardly walk.
So time for the long knives. They say I should be back and ready to train again by early May, but they're kind of discouraging running, darn it. But I'm kind of excited to have some pain to offer up. There are a LOT of people who are REALLY suffering. So I need prayers to help me make an acceptable offering.
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Will you be eating pancakes on shrove tuesday?
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Yes, Yummy pancakes!
Ouch. Prayers for speedy recovery and healing.
Thank you. I am actually pumped for this. I'm afraid of hospital caused staph infections, but other than that, I'm ready. I have friends to keep the wood stove burning (we heat with wood) and to drive me to RCIA the first couple of weeks when I'm not allowed to drive. I have some spiritual reading backed up and some tactical training manuals I want to read.
And there are PLENTY of people who need praying for. And I'm going to to see one of the coolest priests I know to get anointed and to get some advice on how to stay focussed on the offering.
And, of course, there's the outcome. That's kind of cool too.
So, while It's not chasing bad guys or engaging in a Search and Rescue, I think it'll be good, IF people hold me up in prayer. So thanks.
BTTT for Schrove Tuesday, February 20, 2007!
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