Posted on 03/07/2007 4:24:40 AM PST by Chi-townChief
I think Dopey is a bit too young to remember that as well as full fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday or abstaining on Christmas Eve or no eating after midnight before Communion.
For the record, I've given up my favorite food: peanut butter.
Yeah...me too. I give up olives.
Well, the idea was a historical one about sacrifice.
However, nowadays when one can have "lobster ravioli" or "orange roughy francaise", I would agree that that doesn't qualify as much of a sacrifice.
Although I can assure you that while I was growing up, my mother wasn't making shrimp cocktail and lobster thermador on Friday nights. Fridays most often meant fish sticks, and that certainly qualified as a sacrifice in my book. We were ecstatic when my parents were too tired on a Friday and we got a cheese pizza.
Yep, I'm aware of that.
I gave up visiting any thread with "Rudy" or "Duncan" in the title.
Good luck finding anyone that will tell you that fasting will save you.
One fasts for a variety of reasons. To make real the thought that the things of this world are not the most important things might be one reason.
I gave up cursing. That stuff's gotta stop...
At my house, it was beans and macaroni every Friday (of course, it was that way most of the year.) Christmas Eve was spaghetti with the baccala sauce.
Fish sticks on Friday? Blech! Pass the ketchup.
It could have been worse. We could have grown up Orthodox. They do some no-kiddin'-around fasting for Lent.
fish stix, cheese pizza, tuna pizza, tuna noodle casserole. And it was every Friday when I was a kid.
This year I gave up chocolate - I think giving up FR was harder - and I am a real chocoholic!!
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Gave up sweets of all types and the use of the f-bomb. The f-bomb was harder to give up than the sweets.
It looked like a serious question.
Coffee. Although my co-workers really wish I hadn't.
Every Friday when I was a kid as well.
Keep in mind that pre-Vatican II meat was not permitted on Fridays throughout the year, and no meat was consumed at all during lent. One reason many European monasteries began to domesticate rabbits is that the young were considered fish until their hair grew in. Another interesting tidbit is that Spanish explorers to the New World considered manatee, "the fish that tasted like beef."
gag! sounds familiar. and still goes on to this day, as i am torturing my kids with that same lenten friday menu : )
And so far, it has been relatively easy. Though, when someone brings doughnuts in the office (I used to eat at least two), it's a little tough.
But the most important part of of my first Lent as a Catholic is increased prayer, and asking for the strength to resist temptation. I'm sure that has helped me tremendously these first couple weeks.
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