I’d guess Mexico, as well.
Posts from Rice in thread „Who? If anyone, is giving up anything for lent? And if you are what are you giving up?“
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Pope Francis: Put down your phones and turn off the TV this Lent
OK. I’ll admit to being a news junkie and a politics junkie, so I could undoubtedly achieve more tranquility by spending fewer hours every day feeding my addiction.
And all the hours/days that people lose to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat etc could be put to more productive use.
But the Pope’s suggestion that it would be good for people to put down their newspapers and turn off TV news would undoubtedly result in just what the world DOESN’T need: more uninformed people making worse decisions through ignorance and lack of information.
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Bible bashers? How unusual. Statistically, that should have made you and your siblings Bible THUMPERS.
For the past 20 years or more, the US has had a very vocal cohort of loudly proselytizing evangelical Christians. I’ve just read that 20 years from now, the majority of Americans will have no religious affiliation. -
Splinter , there seems to be an assumption here that your terrible experience in boarding school is down to Roman Catholic priests. Were your schools Catholic?
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I think the idea isn’t necessarily to give up something because it is bad, but to make a sacrifice for a mere 40 days. If the thing you are giving up or, in a positive way, the good thing you are doing for those 40 days develops into a longer-lasting habit, so much the better.
I quit giving up something for Lent years ago when I recognized and accepted my complete lack of discipline. A good friend and I decided to give up wine for Lent. Note that Sundays are officially NOT part of Lent. All bets are off. Binge eat those alfajores! So she and I would get together on Sunday nights and swill wine while watching Masterpiece Theatre. But about three weeks into Lent, one of us had a schedule conflict so we postponed our “Sunday” until Tuesday. And so it went. Once we established that Sundays and Lent had become, for us, moveable feasts, we just gave up pretending. -
My Baptist grandmother never really accepted my Catholic father. Especially because he was a research chemist whose very serious avocation was making rather delicious wine. She was scandalized by that 364 days of each year. But on that one other day every year, she brought him her homemade fruitcakes so that (doubtless while her back was turned) he could soak them in red wine for her.
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I’m not so good, overall or even during Lent. But I do recognize Lent as a time of personal reflection and growth.
Rather than giving up something, my goal is to take time every day during Lent, to call or email someone who is alone, ill, grieving, or for some reason simply in need of being remembered.
