Lent

[joker]

I give up morals, being a non-smoker, and sober driving for lent.

 

[longtimeclone]

I am giving up red meat and sweets.

 

[Cy83ag]

I'm giving up ice cream so I had to go to McDonald's last night for my last Shamrock Shake until next year.

 

[Statsman515]

Considering I've never been around it and have no interest in being around it, yeah to me it's funny. But sorry if my post kind of hit home in your personal life.

Keep posting, Bro. Each post becomes more stupid. Have a good life! ;-)

 

[cowgirl836]

Not Catholic, but thinking about giving up alcohol just cause I bet I would lose weight not drinking for 6 weeks . But I really like rum, and I work out hard so that I can have rum. So we'll see if I've changed my mind by Friday.

 

[cowgirl836]

I'm giving up ice cream so I had to go to McDonald's last night for my last Shamrock Shake until next year.

this was my other idea, but it's already been like 3 weeks since I had ice cream so I wondering if that means I can just wait three more and call it good.

 

[00clone]

Not Catholic, but thinking about giving up alcohol just cause I bet I would lose weight not drinking for 6 weeks . But I really like rum, and I work out hard so that I can have rum. So we'll see if I've changed my mind by Friday.

Lent starts today Cowgirl...you gotta decide now, missy.

 

[Tailg8er]

How is this not in the cave?

 

[abe2010]

Honestly, personally, I'm kind of "giving up" the legalism of the Catholic faith for a bit. I grew up in a parish that was very legalistic...you darn sure went to church on Sunday, and you better not eat meat on Friday, and you did the moves all by the book...but there was very little faith outside of that. People acted no differently than non-christians during the other days of the week...like faith stopped at the church doors. I saw thru that particular act when I was in college and unfortunately chalked it up to 'religion is BS' and left my faith mostly behind.

I came back to my faith a while ago in a way not associated with 'church'...and have been working on building something on my own so that I won't fall back into the phony faith where if you do the actions you can act however you want aside of that. I'm attending mass because I think studying the word and worshipping in a community are both needed things, but I'm still trying to keep a bit of distance to make sure I end up in a strong faith community, not one that does lots of dances to appear more holy.

dude, i thought that dances were the playground of the devil!

 

[cowgirl836]

Lent starts today Cowgirl...you gotta decide now, missy.

well I wouldn't be drinking until Friday anyway, so I got time.

Someone mentioned the stress of this basketball team and not drinking.........I'm diving into home buying. Also seems like something that will drive me to drink.

they're talking about Vegas in the other thread - last year, Ash Wednesday was our second day in Vegas. The husband definitely didn't fast on that day or that Friday. Had some meat too. First time I'd seen him purposefully ignore that rule. Seemed appropriate, being in Sin City and all.

 

[longtimeclone]

this was my other idea, but it's already been like 3 weeks since I had ice cream so I wondering if that means I can just wait three more and call it good.

Nope, you have to go all the way to Good Friday; however you could be a like a Catholic that doesn't observe a fast during solemnities.

 

[urb1]

Easting between meals. This is always tough after the bad habits I pick up during the holidays that carry over through the lethargic winter in front of the TV.

 

[Ciclone]

If you're giving up something bad for you during Lent, how about just keeping that up after Lent is over?

 

[3TrueFans]

this was my other idea, but it's already been like 3 weeks since I had ice cream so I wondering if that means I can just wait three more and call it good.

God doesn't seem like someone that appreciates loopholes like that.

 

[ThurgoodMarshal]

Stupid. Real Stupid.

 

[Rabbuk]

I'm giving up catholic guilt.

 

[aobie]

00clone It's unfortunate that you felt that way during college. While I was at ISU, I thought St. Thomas Aquinas was an excellent catholic church that did a nice job of living the faith and encouraging it's members to do the same.

 

[00clone]

00clone It's unfortunate that you felt that way during college. While I was at ISU, I thought St. Thomas Aquinas was an excellent catholic church that did a nice job of living the faith and encouraging it's members to do the same.

Oh, I actually enjoyed STA as well, but it was hard to overcome 18 years of bad examples with a few years of good...it also coincided with the explosion of the sex abuse scandal, so my summary was...this particular church (STA) is good, but the rest is a mess, and apparently the top is a mess as well.

 

[cowgirl836]

God doesn't seem like someone that appreciates loopholes like that.

Well, I'm more just hijacking the time frame to give up something not terribly good for me. So I'm more about the 40 consecutive days than the specific time of year. But if I've already given it up for three weeks without actually trying, maybe I should give up something that will actually show up as weight loss :spinny:

 

[buf87]

I do Hustle up the Hancock in Chicago. It forces me to get into shape once a year. Going to try and get under 20 minutes this year.

Each year more than 4,000 people climb to the top of John Hancock Center to raise funds for lung disease research, advocacy and education. In 2013 more than 2,500 participants indicated they or someone they know has been touched by a form of lung disease. Participants choose from two climbing categories--full climb (94 floors) or half climb (52 floors).

Hustle Up the Hancock


We also package $30,000 worth of food for Haiti, thru our church. We have been part of the group in charge of the about 4 years and we do it on Palm Sunday.