There's dance and song and good red wine.
At least I've always found it so:
Benedicamus Domino!
(Hilaire Belloc)
I'll be polishing off a few more bottles of delicious Cabernet before Mardi Gras ends. I'll also be supping on rich meats and rich chocolate. I am even thinking of exercising my marital rights.
David, I shall walk outside tonight, face Mt. Athos, take a big sip of a full-bodied Cabernet and say "see ya in the funny papers, sucker."
Have a Blessed Lent and try and reform your ugly habit of always having to denigrate your Latin borthers as a way of elevating your Greek Communion.
All that really does is betray a lack of self-confidence.
I, myself, am very happy, having begun Lent right today: Forgiveness Verpers, and a day of fasting ending with Great Compline with the (entire) Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete. Very sobering in its call to repentence and self-accusation.
And, since it is our custom at the start of the Great Fast: forgive me, my brother, if I have offended you.