Today is Ash Wednesday for Western Christians, who will start their fast while we Orthodox will still be gallivanting around making merry ... until our Lent starts, and we're reduced to eating mustard on cardboard for 40 days while lamenting our sins in Old Church Slavonic. Consider this an open thread for all of ye who for whom Lent begins today. How do you observe Lent? What will you fast from?
Sackcloth, ashes, the usual
Wednesday February 6, 2008
Categories: Catholicism
Filed Under: Lent, Western Christianity
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Thus says the Lord: Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin? Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you, the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
Isaiah 58,6-8
Good, Nate. Moderation is key. I sometimes eat my lobster on cardboard with mustard. But not good mustard, just the yellow French's stuff. And not good cardboard, either. Just the stuff that the beer comes in.
Hey, I'm not made of money.
I'm going for increased spiritual and physical exercise.
And I'm going to start fasting from tv and blogging during the daytime. Starting right now.
Have a blessed lent.
While we're on the subject, don't forget that when someone asks what Jesus would do, it's a viable response to freak out and flip over tables.
Posted by: gjoe | February 6, 2008 11:06 AM
Oh, don't tempt me!! ;)
Oh yeah, walking around with ashes on yer head is sooooo cool in this day and age. People only do it so the secualar society will admire them. What a crock.
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