Posted on 03/07/2007 4:24:40 AM PST by Chi-townChief
pigbodies and reese's cups.
I alternate between giving up all sweets (even sweetened yogurt, just plain :-P) and giving up all internet browsing except banking. Giving up the internet is harder.
The Boston Celtics...although this year that probably doesn't count.
I continued my head cheese fast.
All brands of soda. I think I've drank more bottles of water in the past few weeks than I have in the past year.
I was wondering if any Catholic Freepers gave up FR for six weeks. I'm trying not to eat dinner. Stick to two meals a day and hopefully lose some tonnage. So far, it's been 50-50. I'm not a good Catholic.
Um, "back in the day" Catholic kids and teenagers from observant families didn't eat meat on any Friday throughout the year, and fasted on Ash Wednesday and Friday's in Lent, as well.
Any Lenten sacrifice was in addition to "giving up" meat on Fridays.
I always give up sweets and eating between meals - it was more difficult at my old job about 10 years ago. I sat next to a couple of "born again" guys who considered it great fun to eat doughnuts while making loud eating noises every morning. It was annoying as hell but pretty funny at the same time.
I gave up Works-based Salvation!
It always struck me as peculiar that one would ostensibly go to Hell for eating beans-and-franks on Friday, but chowing-down on shrimp cocktail and a lobster was no problem whatsoever.
I always give up eating liver.
I believe Lent is not only for temporary "deprivation", but to be meaningful it should make real ongoing changes in our lives. One year, I gave up hard liquor for Lent, and now, several years later, I rarely drink it at all.
This year, it's red meat, of which I am far too fond, and I think that will be the same kind of permanent alteration in my habits.
"What is a Facebook?"
Is there a reason that reading the article was completely out of the question? The answer is easily found there.
LOL - well, "The Lord works His Will in Wond'rous Ways!"
I bet literally hundreds of thousands have given up smoking that way.
Fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday is still the norm for adults. And abstaining from meat on Fridays is still the primary form of penance on Fridays:
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P4O.HTM
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