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kjohnson
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Posted: Jan 29 2007 at 3:44pm \| IP Logged

marihalojen wrote:

Cindy and Katherine, our priest gave a homily on this last year, Sundays are also exempt from Lenten fasting, so if you give up coffee, for instance, you can have coffee on Sundays. We all came back for Sunday Brunch (there are a bunch of Catholics in this marina) appalled, we just couldn't believe it. A calendar was even brought out and to get the 40 days of Lent you have to pull out the Sundays.

Who knew? Not us anyway.

Yes, Sundays are the day of the Resurrection and not days of penance (even kneeling on Sunday was forbidden by the First Ecumenical Council). In the Eastern fast, the ascetical fast is loosened (wine and oil are permitted) on Sunday and no one would practice an absolute fast on a Sunday, not even the monastics. So that makes sense translated to the Western practice. If you've given up a particular thing in a spirit of penance, you would not abstain from it on Sundays.

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Posted: Jan 29 2007 at 3:48pm \| IP Logged

JennGM wrote:

I remember at the end of Lent a few years back I went to Confession. I mentioned how I failed at observing my Lenten penances. This priest basically told me that as long as I loved God it didn't matter if I prayed, did penance, kept my personal goals, etc. God still loved me. I was quite

, and it didn't sit right.

Anyway, without priest bashing, sometimes you have to go with the little voice that tells you that it isn't right. Priests are not infallible. They are human, like us, and can make mistakes.

We once had dinner with an Orthodox priest who blessed hamburgers on Friday and jokingly said they were now shrimp.

My husband asked him if he thought his hand of blessing was a magic wand.

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Posted: Jan 29 2007 at 7:52pm \| IP Logged

Someone mentioned that it is not in the spirit of penance to look forward to Friday abstinence from meat as the opportunity to eat lobster tail. In our family, we eat meatless about half the time anyway. One Lent for our Friday penance we ate Wheatena for dinner every Friday. We certainly didn't come up short on nutrition, but you can be sure the sacrifice was apparent!

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Nancy

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