Lent

Mem

Sexy Member
Joined
Jul 4, 2006
Posts
7,912
Media
0
Likes
54
Points
183
Location
FL
Sexuality
99% Gay, 1% Straight
Gender
Male
ah right, how does it go?, no meat on fridays?

Besides that you are supposed to give up something that you like for Lent. I think you have to give it up from Good Friday till Easter. I've never done it. One year my niece gave up ice cream and another year she gave up gum.
 

prepstudinsc

Worshipped Member
Verified
Gold
Joined
May 18, 2004
Posts
16,993
Media
431
Likes
21,497
Points
468
Location
Charlotte, NC, USA
Verification
View
Sexuality
No Response
Gender
Male
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. The 40 days (not including Sundays) prior to Easter are a time of penitence and sacrifice for Christians. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with the Vigil of Easter, the night before Easter. It's more of a tradition in the liturgical (Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Episcopal/Anglican, Lutheran) churches, but increasingly, non-liturgical churches are embracing the time to use it for prayer and fasting and sacrifice.
 

Principessa

Expert Member
Joined
Nov 22, 2006
Posts
18,660
Media
0
Likes
135
Points
193
Sexuality
100% Straight, 0% Gay
Gender
Female
Besides that you are supposed to give up something that you like for Lent. I think you have to give it up from Good Friday till Easter. I've never done it. One year my niece gave up ice cream and another year she gave up gum.


You give up the thing you like for the 40 days of Lent starting with Ash Wednesday and ending Easter Sunday. :rolleyes: Some people cheat and allow themselves the thing they have allegedly given up every Sunday.

As for no fish on Fridays that isn't as strictly enforced anymore. You no longer go to hell for eating a hamburger on a Friday during lent; but the local pizza parlor always did a bang up business in cheese pizzas on Fridays during lent.

In the event that St. Patrick's day falls on a Friday, the local archdiocese always gives a special dispensation so that people can eat corned beef and cabbage. :cool: