What are you giving up for Lent?

[Biscotti]

Television and impulse buying

 

[bluemagic]

Originally Posted by Jodum5

Nada. I haven't observed lent since I was 12 or something

Originally Posted by Jumbie

I gave up Lent.

Please be respectful of this thread. Did you read the original post, or did you just post whatever was in your head without reading anything?

 

[indesertum]

styleforum, superfuture, weekly onemanga, tv, movies, and buying/looking at clothes/shoes. hmmm. but i dunno if i should not read CE.

is it weird if a baptist observes lent?

 

[dtmt]

You people really should find something to give up other than buying stuff.... the economy really needs it right now.

 

[bluemagic]

Originally Posted by dtmt

You people really should find something to give up other than buying stuff.... the economy really needs it right now.

Lent-based drops in consumption must have already been priced into stock prices.

 

[JustinW]

I'm giving-up carbonated/sugared/commercial soft-drinks for Lent (will try to drink more water, iced tea and juice). Anglican/Episcopalian.

 

[MetroStyles]

bluemagic threaks.

 

[Joffrey]

Originally Posted by bluemagic

Did you read the original post, or did you just post whatever was in your head without reading anything?

The latter.

 

[shoreman1782]

Originally Posted by bluemagic

Please be respectful of this thread. Did you read the original post, or did you just post whatever was in your head without reading anything?

Lighten up, Francis. If you want only serious answers, ask around after mass lets out.

I think it's funny how people use Lent as a self-help tool. You're supposed to sacrifice for faith, not cut carbs and drop 5 pounds. Better to do some volunteer work or something.

I gave up Lent.

Thanks, parochial school grade 5 smartass

 

[blackplatano]

Originally Posted by shoreman1782

Lighten up, Francis. If you want only serious answers, ask around after mass lets out. I think it's funny how people use Lent as a self-help tool. You're supposed to sacrifice for faith, not cut carbs and drop 5 pounds. Better to do some volunteer work or something. Thanks, parochial school grade 5 smartass

Every thread in SF history regarding religion does that, I think It's time to actually have a serious one. Anyways, I do not know what to give up yet. Any suggestions? I'm thinking about SF.

 

[kwilkinson]

I don't mean to be disrespectful of the way anyone believes, so please don't take it that way, but I do have a question. Do people really think that giving up incredibly inconsequential things for Lent matters? These forty days represent the days that Jesus resisted the temptations of the Devil, when he was at his weakest (if you believe that God can be at his weakest). Lent is meant to honor that incredible sacrifice and to sacrifice something that is as meaningful to you as is possible. It's to prepare you for the joyous occasion of celebrating the death and resurrection of your Savior.
I just have a hard time understanding how some people believe that giving up pop is meaningful in any way (to the person who said pop, this isn't directed at you, it was just an example that always pops up in my head during Lent). I think a much more fitting preparation would be to fast and to pray instead of giving up something entirely meaningless to honor God's gift.
YMMV, and I didn't mean to disrespect anyone, but that is a question that I always have that no Catholic has ever explained to me.

 

[edinatlanta]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

I don't mean to be disrespectful of the way anyone believes, so please don't take it that way, but I do have a question. Do people really think that giving up incredibly inconsequential things for Lent matters?

The sacrifice is in and of itself meaningless. What matters is, similar to what you said, to understand the notion of sacrifice and what goes along with it. That's why people tend (or maybe its not consciously done like this, I don't know) give up something pleasurable, or something that people enjoy greatly. It puts into stark contrast the pleasure/sacrifice dichotomy.

As for the self help thing, we're going to think that anything that brings us closer to God, or makes us more God-like is self help, but I know what you mean.

For me: it is going out to eat. I like to do that a lot. I will put some of that money I normally would have spent into Catholic Relief Services' Operation Rice Bowl.

PS: it is "coke:, not "pop."

 

[kwilkinson]

Mountain Dew is Coke?
****. You and Fran. What's in the water down there?

 

[edinatlanta]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

Mountain Dew is Coke?
****. You and Fran. What's in the water down there?

Never equate us please.

And I said "coke", not "Coke."

 

[Dakota rube]

Wow Kyle. That's really quite deep. I've always wondered the same kind of questions. It is my understanding that giving something up for Lent is a means of gaining some kind of understanding of the suffering and sacrifice that Christ endured in our stead. I never understood how not eating meat or drinking soda in anyway equated.

I'm a Lutheran, btw.