Do you participate in Lent?

• vball10set

  Con_Alma;1095851 wrote:Just because someone "participates in Lent" doesn't necessarily mean they are Catholic.
  
  Lent is not specific to just Catholicism.

  /Con_Alma'd
• said_aouita

  

  password;1095483 wrote:The whole thing is a joke. A couple of years ago one of the local churches had accidentally scheduled a steak fry or something like that on a Friday during lent, the bishop announced in the local paper that they had scheduled the event a couple of years in advance and didn't realize that it was during lent, so he granted everyone that attended a free pass to eat meat this one time on Friday because the church had already paid for the event and they would lose money if they had to cancel. So even in the catholic church, money always trumps beliefs.

  link?
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  LJ;1095563 wrote:Does that offend you?

  No... Most rednecks don't so I'd assume you wouldn't either.
• 2kool4skool

  

  brb need to not eat meat on Friday's one month a year to get into heaven
  brb giving up something then immediatly back to doing it, god's happy
  brb making designs on forehead
  brb I'm a sheep
• password

  

  said_aouita;1096071 wrote:link?

  I will have to research it, happened a few years back. The article was in the Herald Star newspaper so I will try and find it for you.
• password

  

  said_aouita;1096071 wrote:link?

  I am still trying to find the link from the Herald Star, but I came across this article on a Catholic website about the scam of eating fish on Fridays.
  
  http://catholiclane.com/six-reasons-why-i-don’t-participate-in-friday-fish-frys/
  
  Here are their main comments.
  
  1. Your Lord fasted for 40 days…he did not take time off. We’re called to follow his example in all things, which is why the Church promotes strict observance of the Lenten liturgical season.
  
  2. When I was a child, our parish pastor encouraged us to hold the fast prescribed by the Church for Ash Wednesday and Good Friday on all Fridays – especially during Lent – to deepen our unity with our Suffering Savior, strengthen us against sin, and as a symbol of our love and gratitude for him. This so inspired me, that I’ve kept the resolution throughout the years.
  
  3. Fish frys normally are “all you can eat”, thus encouraging the very gluttony and over indulgence we’re supposed to be avoiding. Additionally, those who go, go because fried fish appeals to them, and to me, that doesn’t seem to be much of a penance. I know, I too love fried fish.
  
  4. Fish frys have the tendency toward carousal and, when the beer starts to flow too freely, debauchery. I’ll agree that many fish fry events are family-oriented and that we can and should enjoy all the marvelous things in God’s creation. But it seems to me that the atmosphere at fish frys collides with the atmosphere of penitence we’re asked to foster on Fridays.
  
  5. Fish frys are often used as fund raisers. It strikes me as morally wrong to capitalize on our Lord’s suffering and death, on a sacred season of the Catholic Church, in order to make money.
  
  6. This puts the groups that use and promote fish frys as fund raisers — whether intentionally or unwittingly — in the position of contributing to the weaknesses of the Christian faithful, opening them to the possibility of the sin of gluttony and breaking the Lenten Friday fast.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  I had a female friend in college who gave up buying beer. Not drinking. BUYING!
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  ernest_t_bass;1097129 wrote:I knew a girl in college who gave up buying beer. Not drinking. BUYING! So I bought her beer for her in hopes that she would bang me

  fify
• ernest_t_bass

  

  ZWICK 4 PREZ;1097310 wrote:fify

  
  She had an ass that was as wide as she was tall. So no.